Thread: Summer Competition 2024

Originally Posted by Cookino

Apologies for being late, I'll try to post daily from now on.

No worries : )

Originally Posted by LeaoLouro

The way I read it is you select a couple of targets (something like a dream sign) each morning and your goal is to be aware of them and RC whenever you encounter them during the day.
So, for example, if one of my dream signs is bathrooms, I may choose bathrooms as a target, gaining 1/4 points, and then during the day whenever I am in a bathroom I should be aware of it and perform a reality check.

Yes! Doesn't necessarily need to do a dream sign, but I could see an added benefit.
I could've posted that I PM'd the OP with an answer, but I think you covered it there.

LunaRose

Night 3
WBTB (fail): 2

Comp Total: 2

Went to bed early for once and was rewarded with a longish lucid dream, nice. Hope I calculated the points correctly?

Night 3

NLDs (fragment) - 0.5 pts

First WILD of the Night - 10 points
Catch a False Awakening - 3 x 2 = 6 points
Reality Check / Stabilization - 1 point
Interact with a Dream Character - 2 points
Practice a Waking Life Hobby - 5 + 5 points (first 3-step task) = 10pts
Basic Summoning - 5 points
Ask for Advice - 5 points + 10 points (second 3-step task) = 15 pts
Use an Ordinary Object to Perform Dream Control (phone) - 5 points
Unspecified Dream Control (spiderman powers) - 7.5 points

+ record in DJ - 2 pts (link)

Night total = 64 pts
Competition total = 72pts

Spoiler for Goals, Tasks, etc (updated):

Three-Step Tasks

1. Practice a Waking Life Hobby [done]
2. Ask for Advice [done]
3. Basic Summoning [I forgot that these needed to be done in order... ] -> Teleport

New Personal Goals

- Meet/talk to someone inhuman
- Talk to someone in a different language (not English)

Old Personal Goals

- Have a full conversation with one of my characters
- Summon a portal (door, mirror, actual portal) to someplace entirely new

Night 3

Don't remember the dreams, been stressed out and staying up too late. Got some of my stuff figured out and going to start sleeping on time.

Night 3
Meditation (Long) - 2 points
RCs (good) - 1 point
2 Dream + 2 fragments in DV journal - 5 points


Night 3 points: 8
Total points: 24.5

Night 4

1. Fly: 5
Interact: 2
Stabilize: 1

2. Other- Enfeeble: 7.5

3. Fly: 5
Full Phase: 10
Basic Summon: 5
Eat Something: 5
Stabilize: 1

Night Total: 41.5
Competition Total: 211

https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/one...sink-ld-97142/

Night 4
Remember one non lucid dream: 1
Medium meditation: 1

Night Total: 2
Comp Total: 7.5

Night 4

3 points - Remember a Non-Lucid Dream x3
2,5 points - Remember a Non-Lucid Fragment x5
2 points - WBTB (failure)

Daily total - 7,5 points
Competition Total - 22 points

Failed WBTB again but I'm getting close, I can feel it.
Dream recall continues to be insanely good -- today it took me more than 30 minutes to write up everything, which is starting to get a bit much. Suffering from success, one might say!

Night 4

NLDs (full) x 4 - 4 pts
Daytime RCs (decent) - .5 pts

Night total = 4.5 pts
Competition total = 76.5 pts

Spoiler for Goals, Tasks, etc:

Three-Step Tasks

1. Practice a Waking Life Hobby [done]
2. Ask for Advice [done]
3. Teleport

New Personal Goals

- Meet/talk to someone inhuman
- Talk to someone in a different language (not English)

Old Personal Goals

- Have a full conversation with one of my characters
- Summon a portal (door, mirror, actual portal) to someplace entirely new

Night 2 Summer 2024 Night 7/6

Advanced Object/DC Changing - 10 points
Dream Theme Strongholds & Weapons - 3 points
Visit a Persistent Realm - 15 points
Complete an OLD Personal Goal - Find more monsters other than the undead - 10 points
Element Manipulation - 10 points
Gain Invulnerability - 5 points
Super Strength - 5 points
Unspecified Dream Control - Mind reading - 7.5 points
Interact with a Dream Character - 2 points
Teleport - 10 points
Super Speed - 5 points
Push your hand through a solid object - 5 points
Night total - 92.5
Competition total - 167.5

I will be catching up with journal entries, just been leaving them half finished in docs due to being much busier than expected.

Got a quick lucid and ate some toothpaste

Night 4
https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/the...-7-8-24-97146/

Good RCs = 1pt
Regular Dream x 1 = 1pt
Fragment x 1 = 0.5pt
DILD = 10pts
Eat Something = 5pts

Night 4 Total = 17.5pts
Previous Total = 5pts

Competition Total = 22.5pts

Yep, 4 hours of sleep because of appointment

Night 4
RCs(Good) - 1 Point

Comp Total - 27.5 Points

Night 4(Tbox)
1 Dream - 1 Point

Night 4(Person X)
No points (hasn't managed to recall any dreams yet)

Forgot to ask BadDuck's Night 4, will ask tomorrow

And here comes Hukif

Night 1(Hukif)
1st lucid - Advanced flying, 10.
2nd lucid - Interact, 2. Phasing, 10. Total 12.
3rd Lucid - Interact, 2. Telepathy, 5. Advanced flight, 10. Super strenght, 5. Super speed, 5. Teleport, 10. TK, 10. Gravity control, 5. Total 52.
4th Lucid - Electronic, 5. Teleport, 10. Interact, 2. Creation of things, 10. Total 27.
5th lucid - Eat, 5. Interact, 2. Total 7.
6th lucid - Interact, 2. Tk, 10. Time manipulation, 10. Total 22.

Night total - 130

Spoiler for Lucid Dream:

Night 1, Saturday July 6th 2024.

Ah, I actually find that cute.

Was home checking something online, while doing so become lucid and decide I will be doing something else instead, teleport to a different planet like normal and start looking for… this planet looks very much like my own. In fact, if not for the fact Scan tells me there are many things that are not of my own world, such as dragons and some small traces of magic the rest is the same.

I am in what would be Paris, floating above it. Fly down and start looking around… ugh, so many humans. And what about the dragons only saw a few and most of them are in very remote regions and there was a pair that some humans were getting close over to.

The pair was actually at the North Pole, so that is where I would be heading over to. Quickly start flying and start moving towards the place, go a bit faster because I don’t want to spend a whole dream getting there and move a bit slower than light, reach the North Pole quickly and then slow down and start going towards the icy ground.

The wind blows hard and it chills everything it touches as if an ice witch was breathing directly on you. Quickly expand my cells over to my clothes and regulate my temperature and start walking like normal towards the location where the dragons are at, in the middle of a naturally formed, circular wall much like the one in Attack on Titan; the thing is thick and tall enough as to block the strength of the wind and its icy needles flying at top speed. This would have killed a human by now, and I wasn’t there for even a minute.

I keep walking towards the place which is much bigger now that I am looking at it directly and not from Scan, at least from my human perspective.

Once inside you could see A LOT of ice formations, from small to big caves formed from the dead winds coming over from the top of the walls, yet had died down on it making it way easier to move around and allowing for the temperature to warm up a little bit, enough for small water fountains to be in place and some life, both marine and land.

I get sidetracked in fact, watching the water pools connecting to the oceans below through some underground rivers, some fish are now living here and I can confidently say the place is beautiful.

Prepare to jump inside but feel like I am about to wake up so instead go to one of the smaller caves where I can crouch down to and sit down, then allow myself to wake up.

Back to sleep.

I am sitting on ice… WTF! Stand up quickly and hit my head then crouch down again and my head hurts and I feel dizzy and cold and heavy… oh its a dream. Regulate my temperature again and heal myself, apparently had hit myself hard enough as to bleed.

Get out of the small cave and look down at the water pool and jump in. When I do so hear a small scream and detect some humans here… they already got here!?

Apparently this is a whole class, why?

Start using Scan while swimming to a location where the humans won’t be able to see me while making sure my lungs can still breathe underwater.

I see a pod come into the water then the head of a girl pops in and she looks around but can’t see me. While reading everything around me discover that they come with a teacher that got special permission for this, he didn’t tell them where he was going and deviated from the original plan, obviously. After all this is the North Pole sand the children could easily die, even with the clothes and special equipment they brought.

They are very happy, and the teacher deviated because he is trying to get here before a group of people that wants to kill the dragon, does. Apparently, they are some sort of mage group that is run by the government, and they don’t actually know how to protect magic as it is very thin in this world and the only idea they have is to kill other creatures that use it, not knowing they are actually the ones allowing magic to flow into this world and having more of them would actually bring more, not less.

The teacher was part of the original exploration group that found the two dragons prior to them moving to this place, the dragons made friends with them and the group decided not to kill them and help them to run away.

The dragons liked the location and were immune to the cold; one was a black dragon with golden spots around its neck and back while the other was a dark green dragon with emerald eyes and fluffy hair beneath its wings and neck.

After reading all of that start to wonder what the issue is, but the government obviously has more resources. They are just lost right now and the guy is basically a walking stick of disaster as he has brought hostages that they can use against him, useless ones at that because they are literal children.

Also found out cool the helicopter they brought with them, it can resist the winds of the North Pole! Didn’t know that existed. As they start going towards the dragons lair the kids start feeling the cold and want to return, the guy has no other option than to obey and as soon as they leave I phase through the thick ice while looking at them go away.

Unfortunately, didn’t realize one of the girls had come back to check on the underwater me and actually saw me and thought I was a ghost “Bye ghost” she said, while happily trotting towards her friends.

Not so much fun for me but still nothing too grand or annoying. Kept walking towards the dragon and unlike the memories of the people there, they were not very welcoming with me.

Maybe they could feel I am more of a monster but Scan said they were actually just protecting their babies, 7 baby dragons that hatched just last month, causing a fluctuation in magic and the reason why the government was looking out for them and pinpointed the possible location.

To get to their nest, you needed to cross a BIG cave which they had carefully carved with their breath to create pools and connect it to the ocean on the floor and on the top also so they could fly out. The babies were all full of fur and could still not fly nor swim so they were pretty exposed.

I start talking to them with telepathy and explain that I am not there to kill them and also explain the situation, they let me come closer and I sit down next to the babies and tap them while creating food for them and feeding them; the parents get a chance to rest and eat whatever they had hunt down themselves.

This doesn’t last long because I end up waking after like 10 or so minutes.

Back to sleep.

I am walking around a small cave a bit worried due to being super cold, become lucid and regulate my temperature again then quickly jump down and phase through the ice and feel a human using creatures to look for the dragons.

I slip through the creature and connect to the human through his mind, then directly talk to him to leave now, he gets chills and disconnects but from what Scan says he is not letting go.

They really want to come here and capture the dragons and I will not be letting them do so. A group of seven people all of them with certain skills.

As I am moving towards the dragons again and preparing to explain, get distracted by the colourful purple dance of lights in the sky that is making the ice mirror the play. That looks way too nice.

After like a good 5 minutes of watching that get back on track and move back towards the dragons.

As soon as I arrive the black dragon jumps then greets me then the green dragon looks at the sky and I can hear a helicopter. We wait for a bit and sure enough eventually it shows closer and closer. Tell them to not worry about it and quickly fly towards the helicopter.

It is a very thick-metal helicopter with two propellers on top, due to it being rather large. Brownish in colour, moving slowly, the thing looked cheap. Quickly grab both propellers to stop it from moving then push it down towards the ground and smash it enough so it won’t be working ever again. The dragons come see and then they tell me not to kill the humans… uh? Apparently they are the good humans who want to help out!

Tell the humans that I am sorry and go back to the dragons and tell them they have to leave to another inhospitable location so that their kids can grow up nicely. They were worried since the human machine could no longer fly, not like that would help the government had better equipment and would arrive in at most 1 minute.

Everyone was starting to get on edge so I use my own teleportation skills and bring everyone over to a desert. Everyone sees the difference in locations and just stares blankly before feeling the heat and starting to take off their clothes “A city is nearby, an hour or two walking in this direction” tell the humans while pointing “and here nobody ever comes, you may want to bring your kids 10 to 20 minutes over to that direction” tell the dragons and proceed to go back to the other place.

One of the human stops me and tells me if I am going back “Yeah, they won’t stop unless dead” I say and teleport back.

The humans had arrived already and were testing the dragon eggs and checking the nest “Nothing found, uh?” tell them.

As people who came here with the idea to kill dragons they instantly shot at me so I just grab the bullet, “Anti-tank?” tell them, then toss the bullet away. One of them starts a fire around me and then tries to make it engulf me.

At this point my clothes are already fused to me so just breath in t he fire and then blow a bit of wind and throw all 7 of them away, then create a gravity field where they fall and make them unable to move. One of them throws some kind of dagger to my head which just makes me tilt a bit, look at it and grab it with TK then eat the thing and proceed to increase the force of the gravity and make them sink into the water.

Hold them there while the icy water kills them then teleport over to the main place of their organization and then proceed to tell them to not be idiots and that magical creatures are funnelling magic into this world, then proceed to turn around while pushing everything with TK, killing all of their major battle sources and data people and then crush everything so only the non important people survive.

Feel myself waking up so hold onto the dream a bit longer while using Scan to make sure anyone with the idea of killing dragons or other such creatures is dead, two people are still alive so also snipe them with a gravity centre next to their head that crushes them, then wake up.

Back to sleep.

I am reading something online. Become lucid while doing so and decide I will be checking things. Been a while since last time I was online in a dream.

Start browsing random websites and find a few good mangas to read. Spend a while there, read 20 chapters of one that is about flying cities and people moving between them not knowing what is at the bottom.

Don’t get too far because some notification pops up from a hacker, so teleport to the hacker and take off his arm then proceed to unhack myself and tell the guy not to ever do that again.

He is mad and scared, but mostly scared. He retracts back to his little corner in the room and then goes back to mad. As soon as that happens I know he will try again so touch the wall and make the wall next to him grow spikes and kill the guy.

Teleport back to my room but no longer want to read the manga, teleport instead back to the world with the dragons and find that the humans are still there with the dragons.

Apparently once I left, they knew it would take them a while to get accustomed to the new environment. The green dragon for example had lost its fur already but the babies had trouble with it, so the humans were teaching them how to do a house.

I was helping, also created gold coins for the humans in order for them to go back and forth to the city and kept talking with the dragons about their old adventures. Used Scan so I could also see what had happened and see their friends and as I learnt more expanded Scan to the whole planet and told them the location of their friends in this planet.

They lived super long lives and as such most were still alive; the dragons were delighted to learn this and I was very happy to be helping but time was not on my side. Even though it felt like hours of talking and the guys going back and forth between the cities finally could feel myself about to wake up so let it happen.

Back to sleep.

I am in the middle of a very hot place. Become lucid while trying to see around me but too much sun. Adjust my body as soon as I am lucid and can see again. Cool!

Go back to the dragons and start talking to them and everything, like normal.

We start eating, sit around and I make sure to create an underground cave in the middle of the desert where nobody will be able to detect the dragons.

Also make a path that will allow the humans to come and go. Also create a supply of coins that will last them several lifetimes and make sure we are far enough that human civilization won’t reach here.

We ate slowly and talked about the lives of everyone except mine, many complained about that little fact but did not fight much whenever I said that I wasn’t important and continued being happy about the dragons and the fact they could visit their friends soon.

While talking with all of them could feel a weird presence in the distance. Not sure who it was but they were using something similar to Scan, except they were literally looking at things instead of learning by merging the consciousness.

It seems like the humans had a plan to link all of their abilities, so me killing everyone else powered up this guy and he isn’t very nice to other creatures that can channel magic, he wants it all for himself. Tell the others to go hide and that I will be gone then feel I am about to wake up, so wake up first.

Back to sleep. (DEILD)

I am back on the same place and ready to find the guy whom apparently is already inside of our little cave that I made initially, he is looking for the entrance to the second cave.

He notices me and turns around, then tells me to leave that I have no business here. Suppress him with TK and then proceed to walk towards the guy.

He starts humming something and breaks free, oh? The guy then teleports behind me and tries to trap me using some chains. I stop them and just phase through them like normal then tell him to stop already.

Scan does let me know he is pretty confident in his power, since right now he has nearly all of the magic in the world from humans so let him know he is half right “You do have all the magic from humans” say to him.

He tops for a second and finally says I may not be human then a blade comes flying at me. Grab it with my fingers and I start singing back at him. Surprisingly, the song comes out nicely and the guy dies in terror but I want to do it again so I can remember upon waking up.

Rewind time to before I had started to sing and forgot to erase the memories of the guy, so he tries to run away. Just adjust the song a little bit and pursue him once more before finally eliminating all the issues with this planet.

More to come

Night 4
Meditation (Long) - 2 points
RCs (good) - 1 point
1 Dream in DV journal - 3 points


Night 4 points: 6
Total points: 30.5

Night 4

Meditation(Excellent) - 2 Points
RCs(Excellent) - 2 Points
2 Dreams - 2 Points
2 Fragments - 1 Point

Night Total - 7
Competition Total - 24


Night 5

RCs(Medium) - 1 Points
0 Dreams - 0 Points
0 Fragments - 0 Points

Night Total - 1
Competition Total - 25

Night 4
0 points

More non lucids, the most memorable dream was me driving around with 2 of my brothers. It was nighttime and we stopped on the top of a hill. I didn't want to drive down because I saw a raging river flooding the bottom of the hill, I saw a bus drive through it but it got fully submerged before clearing it. I was asking for a vote if I should drive across it lol.

I'll be posting about night 5 later today, finally got a lucid.

Originally Posted by ErraticHopper

However, I don't really understand the 'Prospective memory' thing - can someone explain this to me? What should I be doing?

The idea is to train your ability to remember to do things in the future. The classic example of prospective memory (PM) is remembering to buy a particular item the next time you're in the grocery store.

You are creating a "stimulus:response" association in your mind, so that when the stimulus happens (you arrive at the store), you suddenly remember, "oh yeah, I wanted to buy lemons (or whatever)"

The stimulus can be anything: seeing a red car, stepping on a bus, going through a doorway, etc. For lucid dreaming, the usual response is "I realize I'm dreaming --- this is a dream".

PM is used in the MILD technique, or simply on its own. When you return to sleep after waking in the night, tell yourself, "the next time I see anything, I realize I'm dreaming".

You can do "daytime MILD" or "SMILE" (Sensei's condensed version) just by visualizing a common dream sign, or dream occurrence, and telling yourself "I'm dreaming!", and repeat this over and over or until you feel you've successfully "set" the stimulus:response. Doing PM exercises help to make these stimulus:response pairs fire successfully more often, leading to more lucid dreams (is the theory).

Another way to train PM is to simply set a timer, and then try to turn off the timer JUST BEFORE the time expires. Start with shorter times, then as you get better, move to longer times. Then you can use this at night to say, "in 3 hours I will be having a dream and I will realize I'm dreaming" (use whatever time makes sense, 30 minutes, 10 minutes, 1 hour, etc., based on your sleep/dreaming patterns).

2024-07-09 00:00 Tues comp night #4
+ day work: RC: excellent (all day lucid presence TYoDaS): 2
meditation: medium: 1
+ 4 dreams: 4
day subtotal: 2 + 1 + 4 = 7
comp total: 31 + 7 = 38

2024-07-10 00:00 Weds comp night #5
+ day work: RC: excellent (all day lucid presence TYoDaS): 2
meditation: medium: 1
+ 4 dreams, 1 fragment: 4.5
day subtotal: 2 + 1 + 4.5 = 7.5
comp total: 38 + 7.5 = 45.5

Where's the lucids

Night 5
RCs(Decent) - 0,5 Points
Meditation(Medium) - 1 Point
WBTB - 2 Points
2 Dreams - 2 Points
4 Fragments - 2 Points

Night Total - 7.5 Points
Comp Total - 35 Points

Night 4 (BadDuck)
1 Dream - 1 Point

Comp Total - 4 Points

Night 5 (BadDuck)
No points

Night 5 (Tapellaaks)
No points

Tbox(at Cyprus on vacation, takes a while to answer) and Hukif pending

Night 5

1. Fly: 5
Full Phase: 10
Other - hookshot: 7.5
Interact: 2
Mass TK: 10
Persistent Item: 5
Stabilize: 1
Teleport: 10
Dream Theme: Strongholds: 3
3 Step - 3: 15


2. Stabilize/RC: 1
Interact: 2
Fly: 5
Super Strength: 5
Basic Summon: 5
Persistent Place: 10

Night Total: 96.5
Competition Total: 307.5

https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/one...aves-ld-97150/

Going to work on updates for the past 24 hours tonight.

Night 5

2 points - Remember a Non-Lucid Dream x2
1.5 points - Remember a Non-Lucid Fragment x3
2 points - WBTB (failure)

Daily total - 5,5 points
Competition Total - 27,5 points

Failed WBTB again but I actually noticed two microawakenings last night, so making progress!
Dream recall was a bit worse today, but still much better than usual. Let's see how it goes tonight.

night 3
0 points
night 4
1 dream-1 point
night 5
dild-10 points
fully phase through solid object-10 points
1st of 3 step tasks-5 points
flying-5 points
2nd of 3 step tasks-10 points

Spoiler for DILD:

I walking out of what I think was a school locker room when I become lucid. I noticed a metal wall next to a doorway and phased through it. I flew outside the building and flew up and looked around. I noticed some skyscrapers and a Mexican restaurant and I tried to recall my next task and woke up.

night 5 total-40 points
competition total-62 points

Night 5

Trying to work on my daytime awareness. Got another LD! Though this one was quite fuzzy the whole way and near the end of it I felt some strong "pulses" like I was about to wake up, which made me doubt if I was still dreaming at that point vs. just "imagining" things while half-awake. How do you tell?

I'm a bit suspicious that this is going well so far for me but I guess I'm not new to lucid dreaming, just never really had the consistency or motivation. Fingers crossed this keeps up!

Reality Checks (Good) - 1 pt
NLDs x 2 - 2 pts
Prospective Memory (bedroom) (> 66%) - 1.25pt

LD entry: https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/vxi...ay-5-ld-97154/

First DILD of the Night - 10 points
Reality Check / Stabilization - 1 point
Interact with a Dream Character - 2 points
Teleport - 10 points + 15 points (third 3-step task) (does this count if I teleported somewhere random?)
Basic Summoning (magic wand) - 5 points
Object/DC Changing - 5 points
Theme: magic - 1 point

Night total = 53.25 pts
Competition total = 129.75pts

Spoiler for Goals, Tasks, etc (updated):

Three-Step Tasks

1. Practice a Waking Life Hobby [done]
2. Ask for Advice [done]
3. Teleport [done]

New Personal Goals

- Meet/talk to someone inhuman
- Talk to someone in a different language (not English)
- Go to the Mansion

Old Personal Goals

- Have a full conversation with one of my characters

Night 5
https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/the...-7-9-24-97155/

Good RCs = 1pt
Regular Dream x 2 = 2pts

Night 5 Total = 3pts
Previous Total = 22.5pts

Competition Total = 25.5pts