Unseen Wombat's optional workbook

[unseen wombat]

OK

01-Getting started.

Let's see.

General situations where I become lucid:

A. I'm inside of some kind of building.

B. I'm outside in an open area, or under some structure that's open to the outside.

My goals are:

1. Get to the darn moon.

2. Get it on with Jessica Alba

3. Do the Task of the month or get to the monthly meeting place.

So my plan is:

A. If I find myself inside, I will try to find a door with the expectation that Jessica Alba is behind it.

B. If I'm outside and it's night, I will try to fly to the moon, and use the closer, closer, closer technique of closing the distance. If it's day, I'll try to fly to the monthly meeting place.

C. Tasks of the month will just depend on the case.

[unseen wombat]

02-WBTB ritual

I usually get on the computer and surf around for a while, but that's no different than anything I normally do. I also take whatever supplement I'm trying for that week. Lately it's Caffeine and Theanine on Saturday, and Ginseng and choline on Sunday. Galantamine has totally stopped working for me for some reason, even though I took off from it for like 3 months. IDK. I also go to sleep listening to my meditation engine and sometimes put on my dreaming mask.

I think I probably have enough that I do here. I should probably resolve to think more about lucid dreaming though, instead of just random stuff that I'm looking at on the internet.

[unseen wombat]

03-Goal review

Some of us tend to find themselves lucid in common places, like their house, office etc ...  Build a goal around the assumption that you will find yourself lucid in that location. During WBTB, practice implementing the goal as if you were in a lucid dream.

For example, let's say I get lucid in my house quite often and desire to open a portal to my favorite beach. Print out a picture of the beach and retreive it during your WBTB session. During WBTB, go to the location where you plan to open the portal. Look at the picture and imagine the location in the picture being on the other side of the portal. Physically or at least mentally play out the scenario of succeeding in the task.

This role playing or practice session should be enough to lock the task into your memory and perhaps help with some dream incubation.

[unseen wombat]

Another road block to remembering lucid goals is the excitement we often feel at the moment lucidity kicks in. This can make it tough to remember goals or even maintain dream stability.

Train yourself to STOP everything as soon as you become lucid and just take in the moment. Touch a few things, assess the scenario and just calm down. Recovering your poise will go a long way to recovering dream stability and lucid goals. As you quickly become more calm with the situation, you're logical thinking should improve. Map the scenario you find yourself in to one of your 2-3 conditional tasks and go for it!

This is a good idea. A lot of times I lose the dream right when I become lucid. When I first started, I would pause to touch something or rub my hands together and stabilize the dream. I need to start doing that again before I rush off to my goals.

[DrTechnical]

I think there are a bunch of reasons to stop and assess. Dream stability is one, as you rightfully point out. Recovering good cognitive thinking is another. It's too easy to get sucked into lucid dream fantasy.