DrTech's Technical Ecstasy

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[DrTechnical]

Bummer, Doc.  I wonder how your wife managed to get between you and Model 6.   Seems like you might feel a tiny bit guilty in your subconscious.  You shouldn't, you know--she's not even human! 

Yep - the psycho analysis on this one is easy. I suppose I feel a tiny bit guilty. I would have invited my wife into the target room where I was expecting Model 6 - but that would have been a disaster too. Even in my wildest imagination I know my wife would balk at a threesome. I'll just have to change the target room to something on the first floor. There's a solution to every problem

[DrTechnical]

I had an odd night of lucid dreaming. It ended on a good note. I suppose this is worth sharing. There was also one interesting discovery I made quite by accident. My accidental discoveries are often very useful ...

I was asleep by around 9:30 and got up at 3:00 to take my galantamine/choline. I watched TV, sleeping for a few minutes here and there and waking at 3:58 (galantamine always wakes me at the 1 hour mark when blood levels peak).

The next hour was frustrating. I found myself unusually wide awake and could not resume sleep. I was stressing a little because the first hour is optimal LD territory. I kept waiting for my usual series of vibrations and transition into my dream space. I found myself undecided on what to do when I became lucid and focusing too much on my position and physical self.

My mind started to wander. I started thinking back to a scene in high school hanging from a rope and swinging around in the gym. Then BAM - vibrations. I concentrated a little too much and did not transition though.

It dawned on me that perhaps the daydreaming of swinging around and being a little physically disoriented helped me to lose perspective on my physical self and start to fall asleep.

I repeated this a number of times. I would imagine swinging on a rope or being on an amusement park ride, and when I lost a sense of my physical position I would quickly transition into the vibration stage of a WILD. I was so amused by this that I lost sight of making it into the LD itself.

Finally on the 5th go round, I transitioned into a dream. I found myself effectively where I started, on my dream couch. I felt paralyzed and had major trouble moving. I wake. Disappointing.
Then I again relaxed. This time I had a more traditional WILD where dream imagery engulfed me and I found myself stepping into the scene. Again however, I had trouble getting up and aclimating to the dream scene. Within 10 seconds I lost control and woke.

I was getting pretty disappointed at this point. Again, I relaxed and ultimately fell asleep. I found myself looking at a house reminiscent of the one across the street, except it was missing some siding and had cinder blocks instead. I found that odd and realized I was dreaming. I realize I'm in an alley of several large building. I'm still having a little trouble walking so I resort to using my arms as well (sort of walking on all fours). I see two teenagers in a doorway about 150 feet away (don't read into this the wrong way - I'm sure she was 18 or otherwise of legal age  ).

I make my way over there but they duck in before I arrive. I walk in the hallway making a turn or two and find them on a couch. She's now with two guys. The guys see me and decide to leave. She conveniently has no pants on. Sex wasn't my main goal last night but I'm not one to turn down an easy opportunity either. We go at it for a few minutes. It feels very real, though I never really get close to climaxing. I wake.

[Sunshine]

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[DrTechnical]

My lucid last night was interesting, if not a little confusing.  I got up at 3:30 to head to the couch and put on my REM dreamer for a change. As I hadn't used it on months, I was a little uncomfortable and couldn't sleep. Around 4:20 I gave up, took it off and rolled over. At some point I woke up without remembering any dreams, repostioned a little and decided to try to WILD.

I thought I would experiment w/ the approach I used to induce WILDS last time. I hadn't taken any galantamine which puts me at a major WILD disadvantage. But it was worth a shot. I focused my conscious awareness at/into my crown chakra. If you've ever read Rinpoche's "Tibetan Yogas of Dram and Sleep" you know what I mean. I let my mind lose physical awareness of my body. Then within seconds, I started to feel my usual head/neck vibrations. I relax, trying to drift with it rather than control it. After the second wave, I get up a little disoriented pretty convinced I'm dreaming.

I check the VCR time. It's washed out but says 5:10. I go in the kitchen. The microwave says 4:15 and the hand based clock on the wall says 1:30. I go back the the VCR and it now says L01. OK - I'm definately dreaming.

My goal given a WILD was to open a space/time portal in my usual spot, visualize a 1000 ft cliff overlooking a beautiful blue ocean ... and jump off. That's got to be interesting.

This was one of those lucids where my mind kept throwing up roadblocks though. First, the basement door next to my portal is open and the light is on. I try to close it but there are books jammed in the hinge area. I resolve that. Then I notice the light in the room is now on which needs to be turned off. I walk a mine field of books and toys and deal with that. Then as I kneel in front of my portal, my dog jumps on my chest and starts wrestling with me. Now she's 55 lbs and I'm benching about 300 lbs. My instinct is to throw her off. She's way too strong though . I try a diffferent approach. I explain to her she can follow me throught the portal when I open it. She relents.

I put my hands on the wall to dematerialize it. I then hear my wife and daughter yelling and getting upset at one another. They're on their way downstairs. Now don't get me wrong, I know to ignore dream characters if need be. But I also know this will be a huge distraction. I hurry through the wall. In my haste I didn't visualize the scene on the other side. This has random consequences. In this case, I try to open my eyes but they're glued shut. I use my usual solution to this problem and try to see through my eyelids. A scene starts to manifest. I'm in a field with tall trees on the perimeter and it's night time. Everything then gets dark again and I slip into some non-lucid dreams.

When I wake, it's much lighter out than the length of the dream sequence would have accounted for. Now I'm asking myself the question, did I really WILD, or did I dream I had a WILD and it was effectively a DILD. I can't say for sure?

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[DrTechnical]

Of course 300 lbs free weight 

DrTech has been to the gym a few times. Now if my 40 year old body could only put up with 4 hours of hard work in the yard - that would be good. I was going to do some GM last night. I woke at 3:00 am in way too much pain, and decided to put it off for tomorrow.

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[iadr]

Then as I kneel in front of my portal, my dog jumps on my chest and starts wrestling with me. Now she's 55 lbs and I'm benching about 300 lbs. My instinct is to throw her off. She's way too strong though . I try a diffferent approach. I explain to her she can follow me throught the portal when I open it. She relents.

Lol, Awesome lucid DrTechnical.  It's amazing how much stronger and disoriented things can get in dreams sometimes.  After visiting my dog in an obe once she came up and joined me in bed with her spirit.  Although it felt like it was her physical body next to me in the bed I knew it had to be her spirit because she was way too big and old to be able to jump up on my bed.  But her spirit was able to though.  Maybe that was your dogs spirit that was wrestling you.  Sounds like your dog has the spirit of a lion.   

[DrTechnical]

Yes, to your point Iadr - my dog has the heart of a lion. Everytime we have deer in the yard she freaks and charges at full speed. You have to figure a deer weighs 400 - 500 lbs. Fortunately they get a 200 foot head start and they hop the fence before she gets into trouble.

I had a pretty cool lucid last night. It was galantamine time! Usual routine, slept about 5 hours and popped 8 mg G/ 400 mg C. Stayed up till 4:00. Last night though I had major issues falling asleep. I had one wave of vibrations and didn't ride it properly to lucidity. I gave up at 5:37 and figured it would be more comfortable to go back to bed (I always LD on the couch).

The bed was a nice change of pace and more comfortable. Before long I had a powerful series of vibrations. When they were over I looked at my clock at the time was " -- -- -- ". Lucid.

I try to get out of bed but can't get my feet out from under the sheets. I dive down hands first to the floor w/ my feet still trapped. I take my time and unwind the beddings. I get up and head to the stairs. I am almost floating as I head down stairs. I planned to re-try my goal of conjuring a cliff scene at a beach and jumping off. I was tempted to go out to fly. Normally when I float that easy it's a sure sign that flying will be easy too.

Instead, I stick w/ my plan. I head to my favorite wall. There an odd night light device in a socket. I notice it's making a frying sound. Then it starts to smoke. I take it out of the wall and check it out - my mind keeps throwing up distractions. My dog follows me and I become a little concerned she will interveen again. I make it to my wall, kneel and dematerialize it w/ my hands. I imagine a cliff on the other side leading to a beach and ocean. I push throught the wall. I break through. I hear sea gulls! I open my eyes abruptly ... and wake. Crap!

Opening my eyes too abruptly always wakes me. It's my mechanism to escape LD's if they become unpleasant. So note to self ... open eyes slowly when conjuring a scene.

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[DrTechnical]

When I use my technique of going through a wall I close my eyes. It's all conceptual really. I think of the wall being a hole in hyperspace. When I approach the wall, my eyes are open. I put my hands on it, close my eyes and envision the target location on the other side. I pass through and assume I will get there. I then open my eyes.

This has worked well for me a number of times and it's a very profound experience when it does. It works the best When I imagine travelling INTO this wall and OUT OF a wall at the target location.

When I keep my eyes open, it a very weird psychadelic-like experience. After all, what does it look like to travel through hyperspace anyway?

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[DrTechnical]

What a crazy night of lucids. None were phenomenal, but most had their moments.

First a little background. I thought it would be cool to purchase a magic wand as a conceptual aid in my lucids. The idea is to leave it on the kitchen counter, WILD and expect to find it waiting for me on the counter. I would then use it to aid in whatever task I had at hand. I wound up having one custom made. If anyone wants a recommendation shoot me a PM. It turned out really cool.

My first dream was early in the evening. I found myself on our porch with my magic wand and somehow realized I was dreaming. I walk outside and notice a mirror standing up in the yard about 100 feet from the house. I walk over and notice that the mirror has a liquid look to it - kind of like in the movie Stargate. With wand in hand, I focus my mental energy and push my arm into the mirror. 1/2 way it I gets stuck. I eventually pull it out. I continue walking and my mom (who apparently is visiting) yells something inaudible from the porch. I wake.

My next dreams were all WILDS later in the evening on Galantamine. They get progressively more interesting ...

WILD -1: I transition into my dream and have trouble getting up. I stuggle to get to the kitchen counter. My eyes are obscurred and I'm seeing poorly. I reach and find the wand and make my way toward the front door for flying ... but wake.

WILD -2: Same. Get off the couch, find the wand and head outside. Again, I am not seeing well but flying usually helps that problem for some reason. I flap my arms to get a little altitude and my vision clears. I point the wand in the direction I want to go and it pulls me along. I don't get this 100% perfectly as this is a new technique. I find myself combining my traditional flying techniques w/ the conceptual aid of using the wand.

WILD -3: By now it's light out so when I transition into my dream - as usual it starts right were I left off, the TV room and the sun is rising. Again, I go out to fly. This time I do a little better. I take a running start and extend my arm and wand and visualize the wand pulling me toward some tall trees. This helps. I'm starting to get the feel of how to use the wand for this application. I fly for a few minutes before waking.

WILD - 4: I transition and hear some noise upstairs. I go up to investigate. I find my wife completely naked in bad. I climb in and join her. We go at it for a few minutes. Pleasurable, but as usual I don't climax.

WILD -5: This one is kind of funny. I transition, get off the couch and head to the front door. I notice the clocks all have a reasonable time of 6:15 and 6:20. That makes me second guess whether I'm dreaming. I hear vacuuming from upstairs. I go up to investigate. My wife is in the hall with the vacuum. Her entire lower half is embedded in the floor. OK, definately dreaming - no way my wife is vacuuming at 6:15 am  . I peak into my music room to see if anyone else is around. No one. I go back to my wife who is now above the floor in her entirety. She's wearing a slinky gold/blue tight outfit. I pull her pants down around to her ankles and help her onto the floor. She gets my intention and says "Honey, I have a headache and I'm really tired - so I'm not into it right now". I repsond "well, I don't know how to tell you this but you have no emotions or physical sensation, you're a dream character. You're nothing more than a projection of my mind". This goes back and forth a few times and she starts to become more convinced she's not real but I wake before reaping the benefits of winning that arguement.

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