Thread: Winter Competition 2022

Night 14 Yes! One more for finish (though...)
DILD - 10p
Meet a teammate - 7p
Interact with a DC - 2p
Winter theme - 5p
Basic summoning - 5p
2nd Three-Step-Task - 10p

Night Total - 39p
Comp Total - 159,5p

Spoiler for Lucid:

Entry picks up after a series of dream-control related events

-We're standing there next to the playground with the guy and questioning whether we should move somewhere else to mess around with our powers. I don't want to have to reflect another one of his energy beams to the night sky so bystanders won't get hurt. He's the first to suggest teleporting somewhere, but I instantly know where to. "Himalays" I say with a smile, knowing things would turn very exciting real soon. Instantly the space where we stand begins to shift as if the very air had began to wave. In the middle of everything with the new scenery beginning to form I start realizing what is happening and it's too much. I scream to the guy, who I already know who he is: "SENSEI HELP!!" I try grabbing Sensei as to ground myself, but luckily the tremendous shift of scenery and consciousness comes to an end. We have arrived. We're standing at the bottom of a snow-ridden green mountain. But it's certainly not the Himalays, more like a singular larger-than-average hill with pathways surrounding it and people walking about. Fine with me, I'm lucid, thats all that matters. Sensei begins suggesting for us to start our energy beam experiments, but this is the moment I fuck it all up. The last thing I see before switching all my attention to points, is Sensei's face full of disbelief that screams 'are you serious right now?' This is NOT what this dream and even lucidity was supposed to be about, and it would soon show. "Okay basic summoning" I say out loud(my second task.) I pick the first thing that comes to mind and say "Toy car." I turn around and there's a small toy car on the ground. Nice! "Third, teleporting." I feel us coming here didn't really count, so I conjure a door the sameway I conjured the toy. I'm trying to open the door to a new scenery, but nothing happens. I keep trying to no avail. I close the door and try a slightly more practical approach and imagine the door opening to nearby rather than some completely new scenery. Nope. I shove the door firmer into the ground. I wake up.

Whyyyy, stupid meeeee! I feel if I stayed with the original plot and followed Sensei's suggetion the dream would of stayed solid and grounded but nnnooooo, poiiiintssss....

Originally Posted by LeaoLouro

Competition total: 99.5 points Seems I won't be able to achieve 100 points this time be a slight margin, but I'm reasonably happy with my performance. Even though it took a while, I managed to have a great lucid which I probably wouldn't otherwise have done.

So close But quality > quantity

Originally Posted by FryingMan

a nice concentration of LDs, the biggest cluster I've had this year and the most LDs in a month this year by far.

unsure if "once per task per night" means, e.g., "interact with a DC" can only be scored once per night. Please clarify, and I'll remove the points from the 2nd dream if not allowed.

Good job!!

Yeah there might be an error in the point system (by whoever has come up with it originally.) It says "each category can only be scored once per task per night", but afterwards it says "each task can be completed once per dream/chain." Whoever came up with it might have mistakenly put "Normal Dream Control" as a category as well, and I suppose NDR means Basic and Adv. tasks. I say (NDR)tasks count per dream, not per night!

Originally Posted by NyxCC

Besides the abysmal timing for me, I am still happy to see so many old faces here

Unlucky, hope you get a better shot next time! Maybe in Spring 2023 who knows...

Originally Posted by Occipitalred

Oh well, my night ended like my performance in this competition: a car crash, haha. + winter theme

Glad you managed the one lucid atleast! Also +5p

Originally Posted by cedwards105

Spoiler for First lucid:

I try to summon Sensei as the door opens.

Glad to see another fan LOL Great lucid!

Originally Posted by solus1

I'm gonna miss this competition. it has helped me obtain my first good lucid and has given me so much motivation.

We will be back Good job man!! and keep it going, you might need it in Spring 2023...

Glad to see the lucid count of a lot of people exploded after the first week! For those who didn't manage any keep going!!! Lucids are always worth the effort!!

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ANNOUNCEMENT!!
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DJ Entry Scorings will be open until 18th of December 11.59 PM Eastern Time. After that no entries will be scored!

You can compress your entries if they feel too long and just write the moments you gained points from.

Celebration will be posted around 19th 7pm Eastern Time.

Good luck to the dreamers still in later time-zones! Can Sensei, revver and the others save the Deers from the jaws of the greys?

Btw let me know if you see any errors in scorings etc, but they should be good!

Night 14:

Fragments (3): 1.5 point
WBTB: 2 points

Sub-Total: 2.5 points
Competition Total: 316 points

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Heh, I fizzled this last night. Ah, well. I'm very happy with my results overall. Heck, I'm feeling good either way, as I sense I've crossed a plateau miring my practice. Thank you for hosting, Saizaphod! And thank you, fellow DVers for participating! It was really fun!

Originally Posted by Saizaphod

Maybe in Spring 2023 who knows...

YES PLEASE! We (I!) need this! Once per quarter would be great! Enough time to rest and recover in between. It finally got me off my butt and DJing every day and recalling and writing key words on every waking! Not to mention the nice 2nd week cluster of LDs!

My main goal is to graduate back to the intermediate group.... I think I've managed that!

Well done all. Not my best month, so much going on but I’ve had fun watching the competition over the past couple of weeks and reading everyone’s entries. Would be up for participating again in future.

Night: 12
3 Dreams
(3 points)

Night: 13
1 dream, 2 Fragments
(2 points)

Night 14 & 15
Night off, No recall

Comp total: 108

night 13
2 dreams-2 points

night 14
2 dreams-2 points

comp total-126 points

Thanks for hosting the competition, Saizaphod!

As has been said, thanks for hosting this Saizaphod! This is my kind of sport! It also really helped with motivation.

This competition was so fun and really helped me rediscover my desire to lucid dream. I wasn't able to get one in these 14 days, but I'm confident I will get one soon, before whenever the next completion is! I'm down for Spring 2023, quarterly seems like the best frequency.

All in all, thanks everyone for being cool, and especially to Saizaphod for organizing it. Without your Discord message out of the blue I wouldn't be back here with you guys!

Oh, BTW, I'll post my data for the last few nights tomorrow. Sorry for being a bit inactive towards the end!

Ive had fun watching competition too, I hope to join in the next ones I’ve been I’ll for the past 3 weeks consequently dream recall has been been largely impacted and I’ve had an almost insatiable appetite for sleep.

Well Done to all those that took part I imagine some potentially fruitful seeds have been sewn over these past few weeks.

Add two dream fragments on night 11 (1pt) and two dreams plus one fragment on night 12 (2.5pts). No recall on the other nights.

I feel kinda bad I wasnt able to more actively participate I was ill for the first half and fairly busy with life the second half. If theres a spring comp I will probably participate again.

Again, my apologies for not participating more, but my dream recall has taken a plunge. Possibly due to medication I take. But I did enjoy reading posts from the more experienced members!

Originally Posted by JadeGreen

I feel kinda bad I wasnt able to more actively participate I was ill for the first half and fairly busy with life the second half. If theres a spring comp I will probably participate again.

Sorry to hear that you were sick!!

Originally Posted by Rodulf

Again, my apologies for not participating more, but my dream recall has taken a plunge. Possibly due to medication I take. But I did enjoy reading posts from the more experienced members!

Sometime you can't help it. It's hard to predict your nights. Just keep trying. You guys got this!!

Night 14

Link to DJ

DILD - 10
Eat something - 5
3rd 3-step task (element manipulation) - 15
Interact with DC - 2
DC mind control - 5
Use an electronic device - 5
WBTB - 2
NLD - 1

Night total - 45

One question though, I just noticed this in the rules (3-step task): "In addition to receiving points for the Dream Control task, you will also receive bonus points:"

Does this mean that I should count another 10 points for this night (for the task itself, and 15 was just a bonus for its position in the 3-step tasks), and should have counted additional 10 (5+5) for the first two tasks on night

Originally Posted by IndigoRose

One question though, I just noticed this in the rules (3-step task): "In addition to receiving points for the Dream Control task, you will also receive bonus points:"

Does this mean that I should count another 10 points for this night (for the task itself, and 15 was just a bonus for its position in the 3-step tasks), and should have counted additional 10 (5+5) for the first two tasks on night

Yes, 3-Step-Tasks give points for both the task and the bonus points (they're purposefully stackable)

Originally Posted by Saizaphod

Yes, 3-Step-Tasks give points for both the task and the bonus points (they're purposefully stackable)

OK, then it is 55 for night 14 and up to you if you also want to change the count for night 10.

Thanks saizaphod for updating this so much and running the comp. I’ll type up a few compressed entries.

I spent the next couple nights from my last dj entry doing basically nothing. I had a good night two nights ago.

Dream 1
I spent this dream trying to get ahold of the bearer. I was able to contact her using a dream item id connected to my menu. She was very surprised that it worked. It I flew to the mall while I talked to her on the phone. We talked about how she didn’t need to be there and she said that the world was perfect for something, she just needed to talk to old man. I stopped at the mall and bought some real food and a power up for strength while I was there. I didn’t use it but put it in my menu. Then I finally hung up with her.


Flying 5
Electronic 5
Food 5
My own control 5
Adv unsummon 10

Next dream I flew to the sky and told her to meet me. Hukif showed up as I got to the cloud that I wanted. It overlooked the broken down city. I didn’t like the city floating around, so I changed it to laputa while we waited for the bearer. I sent out messages for the old man. The girl showed up and old man didn’t. I touched some of the giants there and was impressed by the look of non animated laputa.
Flying 5
Advanced changing 10
Meeting hukif 5
My own control 5


Dreams after
I spent the night trying to complete a quest. Just found someone in need and I fought different monsters. I mainly used tk, but i did teleport to get to the quest at the very beginning. I ended up at a temple like thing and I needed flames and wind to get past some puzzles. I found a paper that gives the user more wisdom. Which is what I have been looking for. I finished the dungeon. Fought the boss. It was a mechanical beast of a thing. That has fists that when it punched at you would keep going and then he would connect them. Very slow. I ended up finding his control panel and shutting him down.
Tk 5
Elemental 10
Using electronics 5

Another dream
I was in Japan and looking for eiji. I found the pizza shop he worked at and he was there. I wanted to switch with him and see his mind, but forgot. Did eat pizza and had a good convo with him. I wanted to meet his gf but she didn’t show up.

Interact with dcx 4 = 8
Eating 5
Snow theme 5
Meet eiji 15 points

I think 108 points. Not as many as I thought.

How's everyone doing? Here's the data from my last few nights:

Night 10: WBTB
Night 11: WBTB
Night 12: 1 non-lucid dream
Night 13: Nothing
Night 14: 1 non-lucid dream

Comp total: 13.5 +2 +2 +1 +0 +1 = 19.5 points all in all!

Oh, and I'll post all my DJ entries now!

24hour delay on final post, sudden overtime at work

Final Results

Intermediate
1st - RelicWraith +100pts
2nd - IndigoRose +60pts
3rd - Saizaphod +30pts

Beginner
1st - FryingMan +100pts
2nd - cedwards105 +60pts
3rd - solus1 +30pts

----------Wolf------------
Expert
Hukif - 698

Intermediate
RelicWraith - 316
IndigoRose - 225,5
LeaoLouro - 99,5
Jadegreen - 86,5
JustPhillip - 37

Beginner
FryingMan - 165
cedwards105 - 117
solus1 - 95
PremiumOtter - 27,5
Rodulf - 2
mellia(inactive) - 0

Tier Bonus - 350
Total - 2219

----------Deer------------
Expert
Sensei - 686
revver - 97

Intermediate
Saizaphod - 159,5
dolphin - 126
Occipitalred - 108
Tiktaalik - 108
DoctorFoxy - 55,5
seno(inactive) - 0

Beginner
epicsunshine - 48
MadMonkey - 30,5
AtomicChocolate - 22,5
NyxCC - 9
Nfri(inactive) - 0

Tier Bonus - 30
Total - 1477

And now, the moment you've all been waiting for... The final winner of the competition is...

The Wolves!



.................................................. .........................see you in spring...

Thanks so much to our organizer, Saizaphod! This competition provided the motivation to help get my renewed practice really going and get to DJing every day. Looking forwards to Spring and quarterly comps going in to the future!

Originally Posted by FryingMan

This competition provided the motivation to help get my renewed practice really going and get to DJing every day.

Same, just woke from a 10 minute lucid for the first time in two years. Keep it going and until Spring

Yeah its been said once but I want to say it again, I know I wasnt the most active but thanks for organizing this it was fun.

Congratulations to all and thanks to Saizaphod for organizing this.
I've been too keeping up the momentum from the competition, having 4 LDs since it ended.
Good luck to everyone and I am looking forward to the next competition.

Omg. I forgot to check after the comp was over. Didn’t realize the scores were so close. Will have to make sure me and hukif dj every night next time. Haha