Soyness' Workbook

[soyness]

-How many dreams do you remember a week on average?
About eight or ten.

-How many hours of sleep do you get a night on average? You can separate workdays/school days from days off.
Around eight thirty.

-How do you wake up in the morning? (Alarm clock, someone awakens you, or other means)
It's usually with an alarm clock, but since I sleep in a room without curtains, sunlight does the trick.

-Do you consider yourself a light or a heavy sleeper?
I would say I'm in the 'average' category a heavy sleeper.  

[soyness]

My goal is to get my recall to a satisfying level before the holidays. There have been periods during which I would remember four dreams a night and lucid dream three times a week without keeping a dream journal... I was experimenting with Robert Bruce's Energy Work book at the time.

Unfortunately, the place I've lived in did not allow me to pursue those practices. Being in a house full of noisy kids doesn't help when you want to meditate. I've had a few lucid framents last week, though.

Luminous, thank you for giving us the opportunity to work on this. It's nice to meet you all - I've been here for a few months, almost exclusively in lurking mode. :]

[soyness]

Here is the list of the things I do before going to bed. I find it helpful to do them in order, as they help me focus on preparing myself to dream. I always set up a similar routine when I want to get back to lucid dreaming.

After the usual shower and teethbrushing, I start with Makko-Ho exercises. Then I focus on my breath for five to ten minutes (until I'm lightly buzzing), and I finish with a short reiki session. During the energy work, I send messages to my subconscious, thanking him for giving me intuitions during the day and telling him to help me remember my dreams. I focus on the physical sensations I experience when I'm connected to him and tell him something like "Hey, thanks for that. I'd appreciate it if you sent me a few lds tonight because I'd like to [goals for the night]." If I don't have anything precise to dream about, I think something along the lines of "anything you would consider beneficial for me at this present time".

I've done this for about a week, and I've already had lucid fragments these past few nights.

[Luminous]

Here is the list of the things I do before going to bed. I find it helpful to do them in order, as they help me focus on preparing myself to dream. I always set up a similar routine when I want to get back to lucid dreaming.

After the usual shower and teethbrushing, I start with Makko-Ho exercises. Then I focus on my breath for five to ten minutes (until I'm lightly buzzing), and I finish with a short reiki session. During the energy work, I send messages to my subconscious, thanking him for giving me intuitions during the day and telling him to help me remember my dreams. I focus on the physical sensations I experience when I'm connected to him and tell him something like "Hey, thanks for that. I'd appreciate it if you sent me a few lds tonight because I'd like to [goals for the night]." If I don't have anything precise to dream about, I think something along the lines of "anything you would consider beneficial for me at this present time".

I've done this for about a week, and I've already had lucid fragments these past few nights.

Great to hear that that's working for you. Autosuggestion can do wonders for your dream recall though it doesn't work for everyone. Keep it up!