Deck The Halls December Competition - 2018

Hello DreamViewers,

Competition Begins: WED 5 DEC - 8:00 PM (Your Time)
Competition Ends: SAT 5 JAN - 8:00 PM (Your Time)

Rules:
- Be fair to others
- Be fair to yourself
- Ensure all dreams are supported with evidence (your dream journal)
- Please don't be sneaky and try to calculate more points than you should.
- In contrast, believe in yourself and don't be too harsh. If you don't understand a scoring criteria, read the example scenario further down the post, or message me (or if it's short and only a one-off occasion, you can put in the thread).
- Post your nightly results whenever you like, at your own pace
- If there are any other DreamViewers hosting competitions in August, feel free to support them, the more the merrier.
- HAVE FUN!!!!

Teams:
The teams are "Bauble" and "Tinsel".

Bauble:
Attachment 10207

Advanced:
- FireFlyMan

Intermediate:
- misotanni

Beginner
- KarlaB18
- spellbee2


Tinsel:
Attachment 10208

Advanced:

Intermediate:
- dolphin
- ZAD

Beginner:
- MadMonkey
- Durza
- PoppySeed



Objective Of The Competition

Explore your dreams and in the process of that, explore yourself! Discover who you are. The points run the same as the last competition. There is a fighting chance for non-lucid dreams, just so they can have some fun too but their standard tasks are capped at 1.0 and advanced at 2.0 (except for the reality check which will only apply for successful lucids), that way, performances by lucid dreamers aren't threatened and if you keep the lucids going, you'll win anyway. But remember, with me, it's all about the fun and improving the general quality of your dreams, including recall. As I have more experience, there will also be some specific team tasks which will have a set high number for lucid dreams and will be capped at 5.0 for non-lucid dreams.



Non-lucid only aspects:
- Recall a full non-lucid dream (1.0)

- Recall a non-lucid fragment (0.5)

- Recall any non-lucid dream over 3 consecutive nights - Can't skip a night or the chain will be broken (an additional 3.0)

- Recall any non-lucid dream over 5 consecutive nights - Can't skip a night or the chain will be broken (an additional 5.0)

- Recall any non-lucid dream over 7 consecutive nights - Can't skip a night or the chain will be broken (an additional 7.0)
NOTE: Once you have completed the 7 night chain, you will have to start your chain again. So the 7 chain would be an expected maximum of 4 times.

Lucid only aspects:
- Recall your first lucid dream of the night (10.0)

- Was introduced via DILD (an additional 5.0)

- Was introduced via WILD (an additional 5.0)

- Was introduced via WBTB (an additional 2.0)

- Subsequent lucid dreams: all methods (5.0)

- Recall a lucid dream over 3 consecutive nights - Can't skip a night or the chain will be broken (an additional 9.0)

- Recall a lucid dream over 5 consecutive nights - Can't skip a night or the chain will be broken (an additional 12.0)

- Recall a lucid dream over 7 consecutive nights - Can't skip a night or the chain will be broken (an additional 15.0)
NOTE: Once you have completed the 7 night chain, you will have to start your chain again. So the 7 chain would be an expected maximum of 4 times.

All Dreamer Tasks - Basic: ________________ Lucid Dreamer Points _____ Non-Lucid Dreamer Points
- Achieve a new personal goal _____________ (15.0) _________________ (3.0)


- Achieve a new personal goal _____________ (10.0) _________________ (2.0)
Adjustment: Each goal may be achieved a maximum of 3 times during the span of the month

- Perform a reality check _________________ (5.0) ___________________ N/A

- Summon a dream guide ________________ (10.0) __________________ (1.0)

- Have a dream guide automatically appear __ (5.0) ___________________ (0.5)

- Summon a miscellaneous DC ____________ (5.0) ___________________ (1.0)

- Fly _________________________________ (4.0) ___________________ (1.0)

- Transform/shape-shift __________________ (6.0) ___________________ (1.0)
Partial ______________________________________ (3.0) ___________________ (0.5)

- Breathe an element ____________________ (6.0) __________________ (1.0)

- Help someone in need __________________ (4.0) __________________ (1.0)

- Buy/Purchase something ________________ (3.0) __________________ (1.0)

- Sell something ________________________ (3.0) __________________ (1.0)

- Become invisible ______________________ (5.0) __________________ (1.0)

- Control another object or DC _____________ (5.0) __________________ (1.0)

- Ask for advice _________________________ (5.0) __________________ (1.0)

- Meet a DV team-mate __________________ (7.0) ___________________ (1.0)
Additional DV team-mate _______________________ (3.0) ___________________ (0.5)

- Meet a DV enemy _____________________ (5.0) ___________________ (1.0)
Additional DV enemy __________________________ (3.0) ___________________ (0.5)

- Encounter an enemy/rival from waking-life _ (4.0) ___________________ (1.0)

- Get advice from a DV team-mate ________ (10.0) __________________ (1.0)

- Get advice from a DV enemy...? _________ (10.0) __________________ (1.0)

- Show a DV team-mate something ________ (5.0) ___________________ (1.0)

- Fight a DV enemy _____________________ (5.0) __________________ (1.0)

- Fight a waking-life enemy/rival __________ (4.0) ___________________ (1.0)

All Dreamer Tasks - Advanced: ___________ Lucid Dreamer Points _______ Non-Lucid Dreamer Points
- Be a dream guide yourself _____________ (10.0) ___________________ (2.0)

- Cause a geographical disaster __________ (10.0) ___________________ (2.0)

- Time travel _________________________ (10.0) ___________________ (2.0)

- Invent something that's never __________ (10.0) ___________________ (2.0)
been heard of before

- Save the planet _____________________ (10.0) ___________________ (2.0)

- Discover a new life-form/species ________ (10.0) ___________________ (2.0)

All Dreamer Tasks - Christmas Special: ____ Lucid Dreamer Points _______ Non-Lucid Dreamer Points
- Visit Santa at the North Pole ___________ (15.0) ___________________ (3.0)

- Sneak into Santa's sack of presents _____ (15.0) ___________________ (3.0)

- Get a job as one of Santa's elves _______ (15.0) ___________________ (3.0)

- Discover whether you're on the nice list __ (15.0) ___________________ (3.0)
or naughty list

- Nth Hemisphere: Experience a Christmas _ (15.0) ___________________ (3.0)
on the beach

- Sth Hemisphere: Experience a Christmas _ (15.0) ___________________ (3.0)
in the snow

- Ask your dream guide what Christmas is _ (15.0) ___________________ (3.0)
about. What do they tell you?

- Deck the halls with boughs of holly _____ (15.0) ___________________ (3.0)

- Walk around in an inflatable Christmas __ (15.0) ___________________ (3.0)
tree costume. What reactions do you
get from others around you?

- Be awake when Santa delivers your _____ (15.0) ___________________ (3.0)
present; what happens?

- Have the perfect family Christmas ______ (15.0) ___________________ (3.0)
gathering

- Spend the night of Christmas eve at ____ (15.0) ___________________ (3.0)
your dream guide's

Team Tasks - Bauble: _________________ Lucid Dreamer Points ________ Non-Lucid Dreamer Points
- Decorate your own bauble ____________ (20.0) ____________________ (5.0)

- Wear an outfit made of baubles ________ (20.0) ____________________ (5.0)

- Make it rain baubles _________________ (20.0) ____________________ (5.0)

- Convince the owner of the house that ___ (40.0) ____________________ (10.0) <--- BONUS TEAM TASK
you are a bauble. Will they put you on
their Christmas tree?

Team Tasks - Tinsel: __________________ Lucid Dreamer Points ________ Non-Lucid Dreamer Points
- Do some threading, can you actually ____ (20.0) ____________________ (5.0)
make tinsel?

- Wear an outfit made of tinsel __________ (20.0) ____________________ (5.0)

- Make it rain bits of tinsel _____________ (20.0) ____________________ (5.0)

- Convince the owner of the house that ___ (40.0) ____________________ (10.0) <--- BONUS TEAM TASK
you are a piece of tinsel. Will they put
you on their Christmas tree?

NOTE: Team tasks are capped at 2 successful attempts for the entire competition. The team bonus task is capped at 1 successful attempt for the entire competition.

League Bonus
1st: (100.0)
2nd: (50.0)
3rd (25.0)

Help With Points
Example Scenario:

___Non-Lucid
The sky was grey, a bird was swooping down viciously towards me. I thought he was going to peck my eyes out. I cried "Help! I'm not invincible!". My dream guide appeared and acted as a barrier between me and the bird. The bird hit her but nothing of hers was affected, she was indeed invincible. She then took me to the city and pointed to a homeless man sitting in front of the book store, I decided to give him $10. After that, I met Lisa in the cafe, who is my DV comp team member in real life. Just as another DV team member Grace was walking in, the dream ended.

Full NL dream = 1.0
Summon DG = 1.0
Help someone in need = 1.0
Meet a team-mate = 1.0 for Lisa, 0.5 for Grace = 1.5
TOTAL POINTS = 4.5

___Lucid
The sky was grey, a bird was coming down towards me in slow motion. "I'm dead", I thought until I looked down at my fingers and noticed six of them. "Hang on... it's a dream!", I said to myself. I had control now, I breathed the element of Earth which repelled the bird away in the opposite direction. The dream then took me to the city. I could explore but I knew there was more potential, so I summoned my dream guide to ask her what I should do. She appeared and pointed to a homeless man sitting in-front of the book store, I decided to give him $10. After that, I met Lisa in the cafe, who is my DV comp team member in real life. Just as another DV team member Grace was walking in, the dream ended.

First lucid of the night = 10.0
DILD method = 5.0
Breathe an element = 6.0
Summon a dream guide = 10.0
Help someone in need = 4.0
Meet a team-mate (Lisa) = 7.0
Additional team-mate (Grace) = 3.0
TOTAL POINTS = 45.0

Once you are in the competition, please specify your personal goals.

Be sure to comment in this thread on a regular basis (at least every 5 - 7 days), so I know you're still interested. If you're reading this thread and are interested, put your name in the sign-up thread and then you will be added into a team.

Thanks for participating and dream away!

May as well lay out my goals right now. Good luck, everyone.

Personal Goals

• Dilate time
• Create a dream anchor
• Invoke Marloss Berries
• Revisit a previously claimed location (Mall-Side Studio; Beach Near the City; Green Hill Zone; Floating Mangrove Isles)
• Visit Irva
• Visit a Dwarf Fortress
• Create a sapient artificial lifeform
• Assemble seven magical artifacts to amplify dream powers (ie the seven Chaos Emeralds, the Infinity Gauntlet + Infinity Gems, etc.)

Old Personal Goals

• Invoke a "lucidity gauge" in dream
• Invoke/create/claim a personal base
• Create a copy of myself COMPLETE!
• Willingly discorporate one or more senses (ie clairvoyance)
• Assume the "Spellforged Guardian" form

New Personal Goals:

• summon gandalf
• cast d&d magic
• talk to people at the yawning portal

Old Personal Goals

• summon Juliana
• fly to the moon

old personal goals
-make out with dc
-fully transform into dolphin
-become invincible

Deck the halls with pers'nal goals, fa la la la la la la la la. Tis the seas'n to-be on a rolls fa la la la la la la la la...

Current Personal Goals:
- Have another attempt at elevator exposure practise with 18-Volt
- Have all 3 dream guide team members in one dream
- Have Dreamy WB or 18-Volt take you to see your deceased grandfather
- Start the dream off with a dream guide already present
- Witness lap travel on 18-Volt's lap

Old Personal Goals:
- Provide an instance of guidance to 9-Volt
- Physically witness Sneaky Gamer yourself
- Encounter 18-Volt without any headset or glasses
- Have a dream in Diamond City
- Discover where Dreamy WB lives; do I live with her?
- On lap travel, have Dreamy WB travel faster than a car

LD-10 points
DILD-5 points
summon dc-5 points

competition total-20 points

I was on the ocean riding a sea lion and the scene changed to me riding piggyback on a young lady through a mall, at which point I became lucid. I asked her if she wanted to make out but she said she didn't have time. I kissed her a couple of times and let her go. I tried to summon another young lady but summoned a young man.

Deck The Halls December Competition - Night 1

Dream Fragments (2) - 1 point

First LD - 10 points
WILD - 5 points
WBTB - 2 points

Breath Element (Wind) - 6 points
Conjure Dream Guide - 10 points
Cause Disaster (Tornado) 10 points
Reality Check - 5 points

Subtotal - 49 points
Competition Total - 49 points

Night 1 and 2

https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/mad...-guild-85839/#

-recall two non-lucid dreams: 2 points
competition total: 2 points

Night 1--12/6/18

First LD - 10 points
DILD - 5 points

Non-lucid Fragment - 0.5 points

Achieve a Personal Goal - 15 points (Goal 5 - completed once)


Competition Total: 30.5 points


DJ Link



Also....I hope I didn't do it wrong....my one dream I remember was non lucid except for the very end....so I counted that as a non-lucid fragment and a DILD lucid dream. Also there seemed to be two things that said for a personal goal and one was worth 10 points and the other was worth 15 points...


Personal Goals:
-Fly
-Freeze the World
-Teleport
-Reverse gravity
-Stop and think about actually BEING in a lucid dream--purpose is to use this to increase lucidity and dream control

Night 2

1 dream-1 point

competition total-21 points

dream-I was in the kitchen of my dad's house during breakfast. I gathered an assortment of little breakfast appetizers that were available to eat. I was concerned about getting to school on time. I woke up in a bedroom and looked at a clock that was in front of me. Then I woke up for real.

Deck The Halls December Competition - Night 2

Dream Fragments (2) - 1 point

First LD - 10 points
DILD - 5 points
WBTB - 2 points

Flight - 4 points
Team Task (Design Bauble) - 20 points

Subtotal - 42 points
Competition Total - 91 points

Night 2--12/7/18

Non-lucid Fragment - 0.5 points

Sub Total: 0.5 points
Competition Total: 31


DJ Link

Personal Goals
* Incubate rain in a nonlucid
* Incubate scenes in front of mirrors in a nonlucid
* Time dilation
* Waterbending
* Spiderman web-slinging and swinging
* Really realize that I have full control once lucid
* Command my subconscious not to wake up until I explicitely tell it to
* Command my subconscious to provide a profound sensory experience
* Command my subconscious to grant me full awareness of waking life memories
Bonus: " " awareness of all dreams in full detail upon waking
Bonus: recall the events of the previous day in detail
* Change the weather to make it rain while already lucid
Bonus: do so indoors
* Teleport or otherwise travel to incubated realm
* Summon a waking life object in perfect detail
* Summon an aircraft
Bonus: X-Wing
Bonus: Airship
Bonus: Da Vinci Helicopter

Morning of 12-6:
3x1 + 2x.5 = +4 => 4
Morning of 12-7:
3x1 + 2x.5 = +4 => 8
[DJ Entry for both]

Running total: 8

Night 3

1 NLD-1 point

1 LD-10 points
DILD-5 points
summon DC-5 points

night total-21 points
competition total-42 points

Spoiler for dreams:

NLD-I was on a golf course, playing golf. I was on a fairway trying to hit a shot into a green. People starting crowding around me. I had to shoo some people away so I wouldn't hit them with the club during my swing. They refused to move, so I continued doing this until the dream ended.

LD-I was walking down a street and entered some sort of industrial workplace, where I became lucid. I summoned a lady and asked her if she wanted to make out. She said no. I asked her if she wanted to hug. She said okay. We hugged until the dream ended.

::raspberries::

Deck The Halls December Competition - Night 3

Dream Fragments (1) - 0.5 point
Non-LD - 1 point

Competition Total - 92.5 points

Night 2--12/7/18

Full Non-lucid Dream - 1 point

Sub Total: 1 point
Competition Total: 32 points


DJ Link

Morning of 12-8:
1 NL = +1 => 9 (total)

Spoiler for dream:

Long, vivid nonlucid with DCs from several points in my past. Starts at a convention center where I get coffee with a few of them, end up moving to a campus where I skateboard really unstably (sensations [movement, wind, gravity, those crunchy vibrations you get through your feet when the skateboard wheels roll over pebbly concrete] were very intense) down a hill after going to one of their dorms. Later end up at a competitor to my WL employer with a coworker, we're sneaking around although we don't have bad intentions, end up getting caught and one of our phones starts playing an embarassing video.

Been short on sleep lately. Will have lots of sleep tonight and tomorrow morning, so I have a good feeling I'll get lucid then. Congrats on everyone's lucids so far!

night 4

NLD-1 point
NLD 3 nights in a row-3 points

LD-10 points
DILD-5 points
RC-5 points
flying-4 points

night total-28 points
competition total-70 points

Spoiler for dreams:

NLD-I was on a practice area of a golf course. I was called up to the first tee, where there was a group of golfers that were waiting to play and the manager that tells which groups to go out and when. I was told by the manager I could go out on the course ahead of the group waiting, but to be sure that I called out for help if I needed it.

LD-I woke up and could hear some music coming from an alarm clock. I tried to sink into the bed as an RC and it worked. I decided to fly up and away from the house. I lowered myself towards the ground and tried to transform into a dolphin but couldn't.

night 5
1 dream-1 point
competition total 71 points

Spoiler for dream:

I went on a roller coaster with my mom, went on a train ride, and was outside of a school or daycare center, where kids were sitting or lying around and adults were trying to motivate them to be more active.

::double raspberries::

Deck The Halls December Competition - Night 4 & 5

Spoiler for Not much. All but one were fragments:

In a hotel at night. I take a shower, but realize too late that I left my towel elsewhere.

Fragment involving the Flash and a woman that brings bad luck.

Watching nephew play a Donald Duck platformer game, which then warped into an off-brand Super Mario game.

Full dream. A woman chases around and violently abuses some guy that she just met. I command shadows to forn an orb around her and trap her. Cut. I'm flying over a city. I wake up before I realized it.

Watching an altered version of Lean on Me. The ending was a lot more tragic for the protagonists.

In a communal yard between apartment buildings. Mom was there. Mosquitos were rampant.

Dream Fragments (6) - 3 points
Non-LD - 1 point

Command DC/Object (Command Shadows) (Non-LD) - 1 point
Flight (Non-LD) - 1 point

Subtotal - 6 points
Competition Total - 98.5 points

DJ Entry for Morning of 9th and 10th

4x1 + 1x.5 = +4.5 => 13.5
2x1 = +2 => 15.5

Running total: 15.5

Spoiler for :

Still no lucids for this competition...actually it's the longest I've gone without a lucid for a while now. But after reflecting on it, it's not really getting me down. I started reading over my past lucids and realized that I was kind of taking them for granted -- these are amazing experiences that most people don't have after all. So for now I'm focusing on appreciating the dreams I have every night, and getting ready for my next lucid.

night 6
1 fragment-0.5 point
Recall NLD 5 consecutive nights-5 points

1 LD-10 points
WILD-5 points
partial transformation-3 points

night total-23.5 points
competition total-94.5 points

Spoiler for dreams:

fragment-I saw my grandpa in his bedroom watching poker on tv while resting in bed.

LD-I noticed an unusual amount of green color behind my eyelids, so I tried to enter a dream by making the color more intense. I turned the color white, before it dissolved into white specks against a black background, as if they were stars in space. However, a voice said these white specks were actually bubbles. Realizing I was underwater, I tried to transform into a dolphin. I could feel a dolphin body. When I tried to see my body, I saw that the body I was feeling and moving was in third-person perspective. I tried to get the image of my body back into first-person perspective, but woke up.

DJ Entry for Morning of 12-11
Cool but short WILD. Getting back in the swing of things. :thumbup:

3x1 + 2x.5 +
10(LD) + 5(WILD) + 2 (WBTB) + 2 (RC) =
+23 => 38.5

Running total: 38.5

Night 4--12/9/18

Non-lucid Fragment - 0.5 points

Sub Total: 0.5 points
Competition Total: 32.5


DJ Link


*Note I accidentally said in my previous post that it was Night 2---12/7/18 but it was actually Night 3---12/8/18

Ah, better.

Deck The Halls December Competition - Night 6

Dream Fragments (9) - 4.5 point

First LD - 10 points
DILD - 5 points
WBTB - 2 points

Transformation (Shrink) - 6 points

Subsequent LD - 5 points

Flight - 4 points
Breath Element (Wind) - 6 points

Subtotal - 42.5 points
Competition Total - 141 points

4x1 + 2x.5 = +5 => 43.5

Running total: 43.5

Spoiler for dreams:

12-12
Dream #1: Fridge: long dream in a supermarket/mall area, yellow lighting, I'm in a meeting/convention room with several others. I leave to go to a stainless steel fridge's freezer on the underneath levels. I see in the back some frozen bags of peas, bell peppers, and onions from the Farmer's Market that my parents used to have; I also see a small mostly frozen bottle of Jack Daniel's (I thought in the dream, "I don't think they make them that small" and also "that shouldn't be frozen" but didn't get lucid). I remember the feeling of the dream and that it went on for a good while before and after, but this is the main segment I can pull up to the surface at the moment. Highly influenced by the movie we watched last night (Wicker Park).
Dream #2: Bathroom: yellow lighting, small square tiles on floor, beige stall doors that have no room to close, don't want to touch the locks on the doors, unsure if women or men's room, both are coming in, conversation with other bathroomgoer.
Dream #3: Troll Nightmare: in a large house ascending the levels, it's open like a bungalow I guess? It's daylight/blue lighting. Reminds me a bit of the garage sale house at F.L., but a teensy bit more millionaire mansion-ish. I'm accompanied by someone (homeowner?) when out of the corner of my eye on a lower level I see a black (not as in brown skin, actual grey/black) troll thing. At first it looks cute, has huge ears and a huge face, kind of shaped like a chinese dragon or where the wild things are kind of face. But I'm still sort of avoiding letting it see me or my companion, and I think the dream picks up on this. The creature gets a little taller and is now carrying a very cool and dangerous looking spear and is running angrily up the structure towards us. We flee and I wake up.
Lost a dream here that I remembered earlier in the night.
Fragment #1: 9 backyard: walking along the fence?
Fragment #2: 9 living room: my sister is videotaping, we finish the main event and reenter the room and she says "watch out, it's still recording!"
Dream #4: Suicidal dad writing his suicide note on his shirt and tie with a felt tip pen. My mom is absent or dead? It's Christmas or another vague holiday and he was cooking some canned carrots on the stovetop. He let them burn. I grab the tie and slap him in the face with it, smudging it, and tell him he needs to snap out of it, etc. He just starts writing it on his face and arms now. We struggle and eventually I leave and let him do his thing. We both return to the living room and walk past the camera on the tripod. My sister runs in angrily and says "It's still recording!"

Good news, the troll and his spear may have been successful dream incubation (albeit on a small scale)! I've been focusing on incubating small elements or themes of dreams instead of entire scenes. Last night before bed, I didn't do any MILD or other induction techniques, just thought and focused on the idea of "fantasy elements", i.e. creatures, settings, armor, weapons, etc. and visualized/meditated on this for a while before bed. I only think this was incubation because as an adult, I rarely ever dream of fantasy elements, it's usually very plain jane with boring WL scenarios. Will try this again for the next few days to see if it works.

Follow-up: does anyone know any good, in-depth methods/tutorials/guides for dream incubation? It seems like the one thing that doesn't have a solid guide on this site or others, or at least doesn't seem like a structured thing in the same way as induction techniques or dream control methods. Thanks!