Thread: RelaxAndDream´s Workbook

Hey my "name" is RelaxAndDream and i´m a 26 Year old Biologie Student from Germany. I´ve started meditating at the end of February because i have had a hard time and i thought it might help. After some time i saw the benefits of meditating and startet to reconsider my life and my goals a bit. A month ago or so i slept by a friend who had this book about lucid dreaming. I´ve heard about it before but was never exited enough to start or read more about it. But now i thought: Hm meditation is about beeing conscious in waking life why dont start with lucid dreaming so i can be conscious while sleeping too. One day later I brought LaBerge´s Book in German and read it and startet with a DJ and some simple exercises and since the beginning of this month im am reading a lot here and want to get better and want to interact with you

Reality Checks:
- counting fingers
- pinching nose
- look if i have wristwatch (normaly i don´t but in some dreams i have because i´ve startet with the look on a digital watch RC and looked always on my phone or my monitorwatch, in my dreams i´ve started to sometimes look on my wristwatch)
-when there is a digital watch i do this RC
Normaly in dreams where i get lucid i just do the nosepinch and counting fingers and its enough to be sure i dream
- thinking about why i am here, how i get there and what i did before

Dream Signs:
- some people from school
- i dream often about:
meditating in some kind
climbing or climbing related stuff (i am a sportclimber for hobbie and job)
my room
-often riding my bike
- but no "Typical" recurring Dreamsigns like a blue bird or something...
- sometimes clouds maby? i saw them two times conscious and get one time lucid from it.

Short-Term Goals:
- have LD on a regular basis
- find a Mentor whom i might ask things on a regular basis (in my dreams)
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Long-Term Goals:
-learn things about me
-intigrate my different egos (it this called like this in english? Getting whole i mean)
-maby learn things while LD like juggling climbing etc

Lucid/Dream Recall History:
- i normaly remember between 1 and 3 dreams a night. the last dream is most of the time very detailed and long and vivid. for the other dreams when i wake up at night i need to write them down pretty detailed because if i just make some short notes i forget the whole deam or the details in the morning. So if i really wake up at night and write it in detail in my DJ i can remember them in detail. if i wake up at night i remember them but if i dont write them down they are gone.

-i´ve had 6 LD so far. most of them where not very long. but they are getting longer and i have more control. 4 of them startet in my room so i get aware of things that didnt make sense. in 2 of them i´ve tried to WILD but i dont think i get it right but after all the dream starts in my room and i was more aware of my surroundings. in 2 other i just get lucid by a random reason.
in my last lucid dream i was in my room again and thought i was waking up and did a nose pinch RC as a routine because i´ve read a day before something in the forum i could kind of breath get confuced and count my finger --> lucid! this one was a bit longer and i´ve tried some stabilizing (spinning) and it was more detailed and i could stabilize it for like two or three times + ive learned activly how to fly after some time get some False awakening ... dah didnt see this coming

Current Technique:
- i meditate after getting out of bed and before getting to bed for about 30 min each
- i train my prospective memory with 4 different targets everyday but every time i see them not only the first time
- i train my retrospective memory by recap my whole day as detailed as possible just before my meditation before night.
- i try to train my daily awarness by stopping now and then and try to get aware of everything around me. i start with feeling then smelling then hearing and then seeing because i cant do it at once?!
- i try to train my selfawarness by stopping now and then and try to feel how i feel, what clothes i have on where does it itch etc.
- i do random RC with counting finger and nose pinch combining with the last two lines
- i´ve used a mantra like i will get up after every dream and write it down. and somtimes like i will have a lucid dream tonight but i dont stick with it regulary. i´ve only did it before sleeping.


-i´ve used a alarm clock which go on at 4, 5, 6, 7 a.m. and shuts up automaticly after 10 sec for like 3 or 4 nights... i think it didnt help because i waked up on my own like 10 to 30min before the alarm would go on and sometimes didnt wake up from the alarm itself. i think i will try again the: "i will wake up after every dream and remember" Mantra because there was some nights i notice that i wake up a lot. but somtimes not long enough to write my dreams down (somtimes i thought i did like 4 times and in the morning there was just 1 dream writen down so maby i closed my eyes too long and dreamed that i write it down )
-i´ve tried some WILD but i think i need to read more about it because i dont get it to stay concentrated with counting my breath like i do while meditating e.g. AND falling asleep. when i notice i stoped counting and my mind goes somewhere (i think right before i fall asleep) i get to alert and get to waked up and start counting again. So either i dont fall asleep and count till infinity or i fall asleep without conscious i think
-so my actual technique i train is DILD i guess?

-i normaly sleep for 7-10 hours and at the moment dont get waked up by a alarm in the morning. normaly i go to sleep around 11pm and 1am and wake up in between 9 and 10 am


Questions:
-when i use mantras should i say to myself i will remember all my dreams and wake up after every dream before going to bed at first and in my WBTB then say i will have a lucid dream? because if i say the last affirmation just at the beginning of the night there is to many time between the first long and vivid dreams and i dont wake up so often?
-when i mean it realy serious and write every dream in detail down i am awake like 4 times a night for like 30mins... this is exausting. would you say it is realy realy good so i should do it anyway or can i start at 6 am for the last draems i have?

i think my next things i want to read here will be: some WILD guides, some threads of Ctharlhie, and somewhere i saw something about night routine i wanted to read, need to find it...

i am kind of a perfectionist or lets say i want do do what i do on the most efficient way.
i started the class now because i want some real quality feedback and i am ready to get formed by you. when u say i should read this or that or do more or less i will

ps. do you know some expirienced german lucid dreamrs here i might connect with so there is not this language barrier?

and last but not least: sorry for the i think way to long start? and my bad spelling. i´m not used to write in english...

thank you!!