Vex's Workbook

[Vex]

Totally looking forward to this.
This workshop will also double as incentive for to make the time to be here everyday. Really need to get back to posting dreams and hanging out here regularly.

Dream Stats:
Average Lucid Dreams/Month- 3
Average Dreams Recalled/Night-4

Bedtime
Dream Prep Task:
Visualisation. Sweep all problems (disguised as webs and dust bunnies) out of the back door of a visualised room.

Waking
Recall and Awareness Task:
Don't let mind clutter first thing after waking. Relax and remember dreams by recalling the most recent first and then work backwards.

Daily Grind
Reverse Reality Check:
Always assume I am dreaming and RC to verify. Especially RC everytime I:
Wake up
Check the time
Go through a door
Talk to or greet someone
Go someplace (scene change)
Hear, see, the word dream.

Extra credit: RC every time something out of place happens.

Log how many RC's I managed.
Which trigger gave the most RCs?
Did I think more about dreams than usual?
Did I forget about dream-related stuff right RCing or did dream-thoughts linger?
Did I imagine myself in a lucid dream after doing any RCs?

[Vex]

Monday December 15th

Not sure how to proceed with making a workshop post so I'll just follow the outline I posted above.

Bedtime
Dream Prep Task:
Did this. It was hard keeping my mind focused. It kept sneaking to other thoughts.

Waking
Recall and Awareness Task:
Recalled 2 dreams and two fragments upon waking. Yet to recall a lucid.

Daily Grind
Reverse RC:
Wake up - forgot to rc
Check the time - check
Go through a door - this one was hard to remember to RC during
Talk to or greet someone - check
Go someplace (scene change) - check
Hear, see, or think the word dream. - check

RC every time something out of place happens. - not yet

Total RC's I managed - a heck of a lot. Most before lunch.
Which trigger gave the most RCs? Time
Did I think more about dreams than usual? Definitely, most of the morning I RCed and questioned my surroundings.
Did I forget about dream-related stuff right RCing or did dream-thoughts linger? Forgot at first but then got into the lingering dream thoughts.
Did I imagine myself in a lucid dream after doing any RCs? Yes. I occasionally tried to mind control the lights and machinery just for the hell of it.

That's all for the moment.

[Naiya]

I think you may be the second or third person who did the most RCs based on time.

When I first started I would RC every time I checked the time and nothing else, so for you it might be a really good thing to stick with.   

[Vex]

Yeah, the time RC is quickly becoming a habit but it's yet to carry over into my dreams. I like it and think I'll stick with that one since I've been obsessively checking the time lately.

I haven't forgotten about the workshop. Been too busy or too tired to post the last few days.
Quick estimated update for the past few days:

Bedtime
Dream Prep Task:
Been practicing this every night and I'm still finding it difficult.

Waking
Recall and Awareness Task:
Still recalling the average number of dreams/night
I did RC in a dream last night . I concluded I must be dreaming but I proceded to go about the dream in a non lucid state which is very strange to think back on.

Daily Grind
Reverse RC:
Wake up - keep forgetting to RC
Check the time - check
Go through a door - still very difficult for me to remember this one
Talk to or greet someone - check
Go someplace (scene change) - check
Hear, see, or think the word dream. - check

RC every time something out of place happens. - a few odd incidents caused me to RC

Total RC's I managed - at least a hundred, been time rcing like crazy
Which trigger gave the most RCs? Time
Did I think more about dreams than usual? I did and still am.
Did I forget about dream-related stuff right RCing or did dream-thoughts linger? Post RC dream thoughts grew scarcer as the days passed.
Did I imagine myself in a lucid dream after doing any RCs? I have. Not as much as I could.

[Vex]

Confession: This really got neglected due to all the xmas activity

I have stuck with the time checks and the nightly visualisations but everything else had fallen to the backburner.

I have started having a great number of micro lucids as I'm drifting to sleep. I'll slip into a dream and realize the dream has begun but then I'll wake up a split second later, no memory of that opening dream scene. This happens a few times a night before I finally do get to sleep.

No lengthy lucid dreams to report though I noticed I am beginning to become aware that some situations just feel feel different in dream. I've yet to have the Eureka moment of lucidity though. 

[Vex]

As a last optional assignment, go back to your dream journal and make note if you had any more lucids than usual or if you had more vivid dreams than usual. Try to pinpoint which techniques you think contributed the most to these things, and think about keeping them with you for as long as possible.

I did not sink as deeply into this as I had intended but I did notice a change in myself and my dreams.

I didn't have any more lucid dreams than usual but I did notice that I'm starting to 'sense' the unreality of my dreams. There is an underlying airyness about them that I am beginning to feel while dreaming.

In the last couple of LD's I had there was an ease to them that I can not remember experiencing before. Usually I have to fight for control or stability or with the DCs. And often times I continually RC to be absolutely certain I am in a dream or out of fear that I will forget I'm dreaming. This time I just continually knew I was dreaming.

I think the flow, ease and loss of the 'going to lose lucidity' worry all stem from that airy dream feeling I mentioned earlier. I could feel it was a dream so I didn't have to continually RC or battle unnecesarily with potentially hostile elements or with myself in the scene.

The awareness of the dream made it easier to experience lucidity.