Thread: GoonerDreams93's Workbook

Hello all! I'm just going to introduce myself a bit. I'm 21 years old from NJ, USA. I'm a student pilot in hopes of one day becoming an airline pilot. So not only do I hope to fly in my dreams, but in real life as well haha. I'm also a psychology major in college. Besides flying, some of my hobbies include, soccer, reading, writing, watching movies, and collecting things. I'm really really big on music as well.

As far as lucid dreaming, it's something I've been very interested in for quite some time now. Probably since my sophomore or junior year of high school, so about five or six years. Most of that time though I haven't been practicing actively. I've been very much on and off with lucid dreaming, but I'm hoping to change all of that. The only lucid dreams I've had so far have been where I basically tell myself that I'm dreaming and everything is a dream, but its all part of the dream. It's not my conscious mind actually saying any of these things. It's all just part of the dream. I had one of these just a week or two ago when I wasn't even trying to have lucid dreams and it got me back into it. I'm currently rereading Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge and I want to reread Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self by Robert Waggoner.

Dream Journal:
I have been keeping a DJ for the last week or so since I've gotten back into LD. My recall is pretty good, I remember at least one dream per night although I normally remember two or three. They've been getting longer and more vivid every day as well.

Reality Checks:
I've only started integrating RC into my routine for maybe three or four days now. What I do is take a very close look around me while asking myself if everything looks normal and as it should. I look at everything very closely. I listen to everything and feel everything closely as well. I try to recall the events of the last few minutes or last few hours. I ask myself how I got to where I am. I also take a look at my hands and look at a digital watch twice to see if it changes. Sometimes I plug my nose and try to read some text twice.

Dream Signs:
I don't really see that much in common in my dreams. The only thing really is perhaps that I dream a lot with family members. Sometimes its my immediate family members, sometimes it's more distant family members like my aunts, uncles, cousins, and even second cousins.

Short-Term Goals:
My goal is to have my first fully lucid dream by the time I go away for vacation on July 16th.
As far as goals within the dream:
-Flying (obviously)
-Converse with dream characters
-Explore my dream world

Long-Term Goals:
I want to be able to have 3-4 LD per week. I think that's a reasonable number. I also want to ask my subconscious several questions.

Lucid/Dream Recall History:
As mentioned before I've not yet had a truly lucid dream just yet. My dream recall is pretty good though and seems to be improving more and more every night.

Current Technique:
I'm pretty much only using DILD at the moment. I intend to attempt WBTB at some point soon as well to see how that works out for me.

I'm hoping to be able to experience a fully lucid dream soon. It's been something I've wanted so bad for so long now. I've been pretty busy and distracted for the last few years in my life, but I'm not going to allow that or anything else to stop me anymore. I really want to do this. I want lucid dreaming to be a part of my life. Any thoughts, questions, concerns or comments on my lucid dreaming journey or anything else are more than welcome. I would love to become more involved here on DreamViews. Thank You all!