Thread: Ultimate Summer Challenge!

I'm probably going to aim for higher dream recall and more micro awakenings than i originally said, more like a couple of micro awakenings a night, if I can work out how to reliably wake up in the night. >_<

Oh and my technique will be more like SSILD/DEILD, the lazy oneironauts toolbox.

Originally Posted by Ctharlhie

I'm probably going to aim for higher dream recall and more micro awakenings than i originally said, more like a couple of micro awakenings a night, if I can work out how to reliably wake up in the night. >_<

I set my alarm at 3 hours I think I will fall asleep and then if I don't forget I journal the dream and then set the alarm every 1.5 hours after that. It's great for recall and you may re-enter the dream scene if you are fast. I recall dreams, even lucid ones after 5-6 hours of sleep while I would normally remember nothing with so little sleep

I'm trying to develop awakenings without the use of alarms, but thanks for the advice nonetheless.

Now I'm finally done with school, I can start practicing on lding for a little bit

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Hello everyone! The challenge is coming up on us pretty quickly!

If I haven't added your name to the list it is because I don't love you and you aren't participating. or because I am always on my phone and it takes 4 times pants longer to update the original post and copy paste things in the right order. Haha. I'll update everything before the beginning of the challenge. Feel free to post your entire DJ entry here in spoiler tags if it is relevant to the challenge. I am really excited to start this thing up. I'll be PMing all of you to remind you of the start day.

Azoller1 Here is my completed list of challenges and punishments (removed and added some stuff)

CHALLENGES
-Have a lucid dream at least 4 out of the 7 days in a week
-Use Bleach, Naruto, and One Piece Powers
-Face the final person in each of those three shows
-Use DILD the whole time through this challenge
-Go to the moon
-Travel through space unit i see a supernova
-Write every dream down i can remember in great detail
-Listen to music while sleeping to see if it helps me LD

PUNISHMENTS
-Cold showers for a week
-No anime whatsoever for 2 days (this might kill me)
-No caffeine for one day (tea, coffee, pop, etc....)
-Go straight to bed for 3 days straight (no music, tv, or anything else before bed)
-Meditate for an hour straight (this will also kill me)
-Listen to country music for 30 minutes straight (this will kill me)

Ok that seems good! Really excited!!

Originally Posted by azoller1

PUNISHMENTS
-Cold showers for a week
-No anime whatsoever for 2 days (this might kill me)
-No caffeine for one day (tea, coffee, pop, etc....)
-Go straight to bed for 3 days straight (no music, tv, or anything else before bed)
-Meditate for an hour straight (this will also kill me)
-Listen to country music for 30 minutes straight (this will kill me)

Ok that seems good! Really excited!!

Don't die on us man

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

If I haven't added your name to the list it is because I don't love you and you aren't participating.

I laughed out loud when I read that.

...

Wait, that WAS a joke, right? You don't really hate me, do you?

Wait does tonight count or no?

Originally Posted by azoller1

Wait does tonight count or no?

The challenge doesn't start until tomorrow night.

Hello all! I hope you are all coming back in today to check your challenges and make sure they are correct. If there is anything wrong in the initial post, then PM me and I shall fix it. Any changes made to the initial post will be bold for a week with a time stamp on them so that you can see who is doing what and how they are doing. If you have completed any tasks (other than a certain number of LDs) before the competition started, than feel free to say so and either put up a new task or just leave it as is and go for the next ones.

I don't know all of your time zones or anything, so for everyone The night of the 31st is the start date, which for me is in about 5 hours. Good luck all with your crazy challenges. I hope you all enjoy this. I did this for you... and me. Mostly for me really. Have fun!

To latecomers:
Sign up with a list, but I won't be wanting the challenges to last longer than the end date of the competition. Try to keep in mind how much longer is left on the challenge when you make your list. All are welcome here.

And the dreaming begins! Good luck everyone!

Alright the game is on! I've got some serious sleeping to do

I am probably going to update everyday on here. I encourage y'all to do the same, but if you want to update once a week or whatever, you can.
Last night I had 7 hours of sleep. I was gonna use one of my 15 days, because me and my wife stayed up late, but my alarm didn't go off this morning and i slept 7. :/

Okay I think I will start now since I had an amazing lucid last night.

That's 1/80 of my lucids got and I had a lot of fun tricking dream characters. Yay success.

With all the work, I completely forgot about this challenge ahaha xD Entering vacations in 2 days, so that's gonna help ^^

I had a final today, so I had to wake up early, and for some reason, I didn't sleep as early as I intended to.
That's my last final though, so I'm hoping I'll be getting more hours of sleep in the coming days.

I got 9 hours of sleep, but my WILD was so unstable that it really shouldn't count.

I had 3 dreams in total:
-(WILD) I was on top of a large skyscraper in a futuristic city where everything was either white or a light shade of gray. When I attempted to summon a delicious cake I lost lucidity and woke up... the subsequent DEILD attempt failed miserably and I just fell back asleep.
-Some old friends and I were in a large field, which was divided in two by a beautiful river and an ancient-looking stone bridge.
-I was in some kind of math class where I knew all the answers to the problems but my voice would come out all wrong when I would attempt to speak.

Goals accomplished: Almost 1, but not quite
Lucid count: 0/55 (Those 55 dreams are gonna be GOOD goshdarnit!)

I'm going to us one of my 15 days since I stayed up to late and my phone was all messed up so I couldn't WBTB, will try a wild later today for a nap

I forgot to mention that the technique I'll be using is ADA (all day awareness). I really hope I finish all of my challenges, cuz I don't want to suffer the consequences!

EDIT: As I said earlier I didn't get much sleep today. I suppose that means I used up one of my 15 days, doesn't it?
Not a good start..

Yeah. I'll add a place for the amount of days you fail to "try and sleep 7-8 hours) near each if I fix that dang computer. If not, then it might take a while. night is coming for me soon. Shall get the 7-8 hours and should get some lucid. Hoping to get to that realm!

Oh I'm definitely late to the party, but I sure want to join in on this! I already started last night to be precise.

So what will I be doing, gotta come up with some balanced challenges...
Oh by the way I still have work so I gotta pass on the 7-8 hours sleep, not possible under the circumstances, especially since I'm not living alone. Alos I don't really want to be limited to one technique, but I'll try it with more WILD attempts.

The punishments go corresponding to the number of the challenge:

The challenges:
1.] [ ] Remember at least [3/404] dreams including tags
2.] [ ] Have a day with 10 or more dreams
3.] [ ] Have my first WILD
4.] [ ] Have at least 5 lucid dreams
5.] [ ] Revisit at least one place in a dream where I have been before (Preferably Coon City, or a certain Postapocalyptic building, or maybe ISIM)
6.] [ ] Have at least 5 dreams about Ryuko (IOSDP Shared Dreaming RPG)
7.] [ ] Learn how to visualize good enough to hallucinate things into my vision on purpose
8.] [ ] Cause the biggest detonation I've seen in my dreams yet
9.] [ ] Have another music focused dream
10.] [ ] Have at least [1/10] WBTBs
11.] [ ] Have at least 30 shorter sleep phases during the day

The Punishments:
1.] Sleep on the floor for a week
2.] Go sparring with my girlfriend 5 times (she is strong to the point of being dangerous, so...)
3.] Create and upload an anime styled picture within just 2 weeks (I'm not confident and I'm lacking proper practice, so that's definitely going to be punishment)
4.]
5.] Go to school a week without using the tram (The first day of the week walking home is fine as measurement)
6.] Create lyrics for a track about the IOSDP shared dreaming project, sing it in front of my girlfriend and post the lyrics on DV, deadline would be a month after starting on the lyrics
7.] Meditate bound or in an otherwise uncomfortable position for 2 hours
8.]
9.] Run back home from work once (My working place is a lot further from home)
10.] Stay afloat in water for at least 90 consecutive minutes
11.]

Well some punishments are still missing, especially since I want creative punishments. And maybe I also want some more challenges when I come up with new ones in the next, otherwise I'm goint to stick to this.

Finally overcame insomnia with one night with 6 hours of sleep, another with 9, one with 8. One lucid. (1/60)
Nights with <6 hours of sleep (1/15)