Kraoms Workbook

OK so now I'm back from my little vacation. It was nice but I'm glad to be home. So I just thought I'd put this update up, also something actually relevant, my next goal well hopefully for tonight/tomorrow morning is to stop and think in my next lucid dream. I've noticed lately that I'm acting on impulse and this leads me to have shorter LDs.

Alright this morning I had an LD, after doing SSILD. So, I was in a dream and I was at my friend's house, a friend from when i was in eighth grade , a girl that I liked. In the dream I was pretty happy so I wasn't exactly in a questioning things sort of mindset. So anyway a little while later the dream had ended. (I might talk about it a little more in detail in my dream journal) So when I woke up I was a little sad that it was only a dream, but you know I got over it. So I woke up and did my SSILD and then went back to sleep. So the next thing I remember I was in the same dreamscape, so this time I knew that it was only a dream. I didn't exactly stop and think like I wanted, but to my own surprise I was very calm. First I saw a t.v. that was turned on and I tried to lift it with telekinesis, it didn't move. So I got up from the couch I was sitting on and started walking I tried to see if I had any feeling like a headache or something and I didn't except for what felt like a looseness in two of my canine teeth. Then the dead giveaway that I was surely dreaming was a person was walking and what would have in the real world been a slam into me, they just passed right through as if they were a ghost, or I was. So I went to find my friend and talk to her. (I could finally accomplish that dream goal!) And then when I neared the bathroom of the house she came out with only a towel wrapped around her. I looked away feeling flustered and then woke up. So moral of the story: I'm not allowed to talk to DCs!

The strangest yet possibly coolest things happened to me this morning. I was laying in my bed sort of half asleep half awake and then I thought about my dad coming into my room and waking me up to say something to me like he had the night before. And then I drifted off a little and then it happened he came in and was talking to me. Then when I came back to consciousness I realized there was no one there. So then I thought about how around five seconds after I thought about my dad coming into my room he did. So this time I just imagined myself laying on the floor and then three seconds later I was. I knew what I did so I was aware. It was very very clear and vivid. I was laying on the floor of my room and the light was turned on and since I thought it was a dream I tried to use telekinesis but whenever I tried it it didn't work no matter how hard I focused on it. Eventually I thought maybe I had just rolled out of my bed and I would have looked pretty strange laying on my floor pointing my fingers at a piece of plastic trying to get it to move. So then I tried to wake myself up and it worked I opened my eyes and was there just laying in my bed still. So I thought that I would try it again so I re-imagined laying on my floor and there I was again. I tried to use telekinesis again and again it didn't work. Then I picked up a piece of scrap paper that was on the floor and threw it into the air and commanded it to stay in the air. Sadly it fell to the ground. Maybe it was the fleeting doubt in my mind that I had really just rolled off of my bed. But anyways it was amazing because it was like instant induction into a dream with retained awareness, so I was instantaneously lucid. I'm not sure if I'll be able to do this again or if this was just some kind of weird thing that happened, but I'll definitely try to do it again. If I could figure out how to do it then I could have at least one lucid per night if not more.

Yea I guess I need to convince myself that I'm dreaming. Maybe try some reality checks, even though I don't like them. Inside the dreams to it seemed like I didn't have to focus on keeping them up at all and they could have gone on for as long as I like seeing as I did force end them. In hindsight now I'd say that they definitely were dreams.

Finally I had another LD this morning, three day dryspell that's a long while hahaha. Alright but anyway I'll just give a quick overview at the point I became lucid. I ended up saying something like good thing I'm only dreaming and then I was like wait what? I'm dreaming.. So, I went with the dreamscape and I had the keys to a car it was like a low-rider (lol). And then when I got into it turned into a classic dragster, that was still pretty low to the ground. So I was basically propelling it with my mind because there were no pedals yet it was driving. So after I pulled out of a parking lot I was no longer driving it, the dream had changed. Now it was some Mexican girl that sounded like she was fourteen. She ended up flooring the car down a street which caused me to lose my focus because there was nothing to focus on with everything blurring by. So I fought to keep my focus in the dream and ended up actually seeing blackness and then a percent bar popped up that was at around 80% and it was going up and eventually I was reloaded into the dream. When I got back into the dream my older brother was now driving the dragster and we were on some mountain road so I was bumping up into the air and one bump in the air I stayed in the air as if there were no gravity. And then I woke up. There are a lot more details for the non-lucid portion that I can go into depth in my dream journal.

Well, I had another lucid dream this morning. I actually almost forgot but when I woke up for the final time I was laying there trying to recall my dreams and at first I couldn't remember anything then BOOM I remember like four different dreams including a lucid dream. So in my lucid I actually just looked around and said, "Yeaaa this is a dream.." I was in a ritzy looking neighborhood with a lot of huge houses. Anyways, still didn't stop and think and my first impulse was to fly. So I jumped into the air aaaaaaannnnnnnnndddd landed back down on the sidewalk. So then I tried to spawn a DC by turning around and then trying to have them be behind me when I turned back around and that didn't work. So then I went for a nice walk until I got to what looked like where I lived. So this time I started running forward and jumped into the air, so now it was either fly or hit the ground hard. And I flew, which always feels nice I like the feeling of the wind. So I flew for a little while until a flew over a pool and noticed people so I landed there. It was my little brother and one of my friends. I touched my friend and tried to turn her into a different DC, and when I did this she let out and annoyed sigh which kind of threw me off and made me lose focus. So I could still feel myself touching her shoulder but the dream was black. So I recovered the dream only to pretty much just lose it again..

I did it I finally managed to talk to a DC! Alright so it was after I almost ran her over and then I assured her I'd save her from the madman trying to kill people, which was me.. Ok alright let me just tell you all what was happening. So I'm walking over to my car and as I walk up and turn it on I just suddenly realized I was dreaming just it hit me nothing even happened. So then one of my dream goals was to drive a car so I did just that and by that I mean I drove it quickly. So it ended up with me and two of my cousins in the back of my car chasing after a DC. And then I saw a DC, a blonde girl (and you know my affinity for blonde girls, or you do now). So anyways I didn't even get out of my car I just sort of ended up right next to her, don't exactly know how. So then I assured her that I would save her. And ok maybe it wasn't talking as in a conversation but she was still talking about the people being attacked by a man driving a car, whatever haha. Anyways I tired to make her responsive but she wouldn't be. So I ended up just going where she wanted to. We walked down past a little lake and jumped off a dock into a little mud pit. I helped pull her up out of the mud that she had fallen in and then assured her there was no way that a car could drive down here. And then my cousins that were in the car with me come out of the tree-line and my aunt and uncle come out from the tree-line opposite the one my cousins are coming from. My aunt and uncle seem displeased that I had involved there children in my activities. So eventually they got to me and grabbed me at which point I force exited the dream. A little sad that I didn't think to just fly away or something.

Had a brief lucid this morning. I was in an indoor hot springs with my mom and brothers. And then I was just sitting in the water and I said, "I'm dreaming." I was going to fly until I realized that it was an INDOOR hot springs. And then I created a huge twister with the water as the dream was ending. Then practicing my dream re-entry I re-entered the dream except it was a little odd because I was in my room but the proportions were off my bed was the hot springs and I was pacing around the edge of the hot springs and when I looked to the left I saw the wall of my room and one of my shelves.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue: Great dreams, lucid and everything! Glad you finally got a DC to talk to you, and a pretty blonde at that. To bad you had to run over her with the car first -------- Whoa, whoa she ran faster than my car SO she was in a corner and I assured her I'd save her hahaha

Alright had a brief LD this morning, nothing special, kicked a federal marshal in the face and then stole his weapon haha. On the downside my dream recall has been really suffering because I've been staying up later and waking up later so I interrupted my sleep schedule. Only dreams I can recall are after I initially wake up for my WBTB, which is still like three or four.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue: I know what you mean. I've been going to bed way too late, and when I WBTB the first time, I recall some dreams, but then I sleep too deep after that and forget them. It also feels like it's too late after that to properly induce a LD, like I'm getting a sleep overdose because I stayed up so late hehe. Now that my son is about to go back to school, I'll have to go to bed earlier then wake up earlier. Are you about to go back to school too? I should know this... -------- Yea I'll being going back to school on the fourth next month

Had a lucid this morning very clear and vivid, like the clearest dream I've had in a while. I was just there in my dream about to dive Lil Wayne somewhere when I thought to myself, you know its probably unlikely that'd I'd be driving Lil Wayne somewhere. So naturally I became lucid and then my first impulse was to fly, BUT I didn't. Instead I saw a DC walking by and I said to it, "Hey Wait!" And so the DC did stop and wait. So I went over and hugged this DC, but I closed my eyes when I did which caused me to destabilize. Kind of sad that a dream that clear ended the quality of it was great.

Alright, had another lucid this morning. I find it amusing how sometimes I tell myself that I am dreaming. In my dream I had this nice new black Chevy Camaro and I had backed it into this metal electric box so I was freaking out. And then in the middle of my freaking out I literally just stopped and said to myself, "Chill this is just a dream." So then I got out of the car and just started walking around, this dream was pretty clear. There was this dog that was near a pool and at first I was excited to see him like oh cool a nice dream dog. But no he runs at me and starts snarling and so I freak out and throw him with telekinesis, pretty sure he died So now I'm not sure if I was going crazy in this lucid or not but I was talking to two people but there wasn't actually two people with me. So they told me they wanted some drinks so we started walking towards a 7-11. Then I don't remember what but they told me to do something else and I said, "Do you want me to destabilize. I have to keep my focus." I did end up destabilizing and then I re-entered the dream only to destabilize after a few more steps down the sidewalk. Still need to stop and think more in my dreams I think that'll be my goal for this month and once I can do that then maybe I can have an actual conversation with a DC that I didn't almost kill!

IM BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACKKKKKKKK Anyways, let me just, tell you what happened... SO ever since school started I've been SO busy.. so busy. Studying for the SAT applying for colleges, homework, etc. BUT anyways I decided I need to make time for dreamviews again cause I have notice an IMMENSE decline in my lucid quality since not journaling dreams, writing in my workbook, and whatnot. I have managed to have lucid dreams since school started.. not with the frequency I'd like (I'm at about.. 1 per week ) And my memory of them is always so awful its annoying.. so anyways.. I'm back!

WELL, nothing really last night or this morning.. But I did write quite a bit in my physical journal last night before going to sleep. So, I think I'm taking proper steps to recovering my lucid ability.. The one thing that I've noticed is that I seem to only have lucids on days where I can sleep in a little.. So like the weekend and Wednesday, the day I go to school later. So I tried setting an alarm then going back to sleep but that just made me angry when it went off lol. SO right now I don't really know I'm really only having lucids on Wednesdays.. the last Wednesday that I got to sleep in on, I had three lucid dreams in the one morning.. so I suppose that sort of makes up for the lack on the other days.. Anyways I'll be working on having lucids on the other days.. As to how, I haven't exactly figured it out yet.. BUT I'll think of something.

Alright, alright.. SO tomorrow is.. WEDNESDAY.. woo everyone knows what that means! Sleep in day. I've got high hopes for tomorrow. Not really, but you know I'm hoping for something maybe not lucid but at least improved recall or something.. The last Wednesday I had to sleep in like this (two weeks ago now) ((Last Wednesday I had to get up early)) like I said before I had three lucids in the one morning.. Anyway I think that I've taken a good step forward towards lucids on a non-Wednesday. I've been going to sleep earlier then I normally do and as a result I've been waking up earlier then I normally do. So it sort of produced that state I'm in when sleeping in. Except for this morning, it was almost like I overdid it, I was waking up every few minutes for about an hour before I finally had to get up.. So I'll probably continue with that and see where it goes..

Originally Posted by paigeyemps: Sounds good. I was wondering btw, are you still doing SSILD? Or are you gonna switch to something else? What other things/routines have you changed since last time? -------- Alright so I guess I'll just give you the rundown.. So I stopped SSILD a while ago back when I still frequented the site because I felt like the effects of it were diminishing, and my ability to naturally DILD was increasing. So I just started relying on DILDs which is where I've had probably half of my lucids. I'm still relying on DILD but I've been toying with the idea of trying things like FILD or even going back to SSILD again, since it did work well. I kind of just got lazy doing SSILD and I found myself falling back asleep prematurely. But anyways lately I've still been relying on my natural DILDs with one thing, I've been going to sleep a lot earlier than I normally do and as a result waking up much earlier, giving me the time I need to have my lucid dreams in the morning before I have to get up for school. This has been working well, except for this morning my sleep in day, I woke up around 5 AM and went back to sleep which is normal with what I've been doing. I only had one lucid dream this morning probably around the time I might normally get up on a regular day, but I don't know exactly because I wasn't keeping track of time at this point. So after this lucid I woke up again around 7 AM and couldn't really fall back into full sleep more like a half-awake half-asleep sort of delirious state, the same kind of thing when I take afternoon naps. So now my conclusion is: to continue with my earlier sleep schedule on everyday but Thursday and go to sleep at my normal time on Wednesdays to increase the maximum effectiveness. And now I'll just report what happened this morning. So had a lucid it was awful quality can hardly even remember where I was, I think in my room and I remember going downstairs. I was hardly in control either, I was running around sort of frantically trying to accomplish something. And after a little the dream just went black and I woke up.

So my going to sleep early waking up early method seems to be working pretty well. I did manage to have a lucid this morning albeit, a very strange one. But hey strange dreams make for interesting dreams at least. Just to give you an idea of the dream here.. I was at school, there was some conspiracy theory that ended up releasing demons, and at my school there's a daycare for the babies of some girls that already have babies.. Anyways I became lucid but still was just going with the dream so I started flying and told everyone, "TO THE BABY CENTER! Babies ward off demons!" and when I got there the babies were locked in kennels like they were dogs or something.. Anyways I don't know how it came to this last part but there was a lake next to the baby center and there were puppies swimming in it and people were trying to gauge the puppies strength based on which puppies made it back and which ones drowned.. I was hovering over the lake and I could see the corpses of some puppies.. and at the end I saw some labrador puppies that were swimming and someone said forget the labradors we don't need them! So yea.. still wanna stop and think don't necessarily want to keep going with the flow of my dreams but I guess it's better than nothing..

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue: That lucid with the babies and the puppies, wow. I would have woken up crying lol. I have to admit, I never went with the flow in an LD to that extent. What I have done though, is let the flow of the dream create the setting for me (because creating the setting can be so much work and I'll frustrate myself and wake myself up if I try to change too much stuff sometimes). Then once I have a good start, I take over. I'm always worried that if I give up too much of my free-will in an LD, then it will just go nuts and I'll lose myself and it will become non-lucid. That ever happen to you? -------- Well, that's never exactly happened to me.. although I have lost lucids even when I'm going with the flow.. that dream was more like.. I was lucid but the only thing I changed was I used lucid abilities as in, flying. But a lot of my dreams where I'm lucid and go with the flow do really get crazy.. maybe it's just that I'm no longer thinking in dream logic and I'm using real logic..

So, little late today but, this morning I did have a lucid and some pretty decent dream recall.. And I managed to have this lucid even with going to sleep later, a lot later, than I normally do. BUT I did get to naturally sleep in.. And I learned something interesting about my dreams this morning.. In my lucid I was doing something and then after the dream ended I was still imagining myself doing whatever and then eventually I went into a FA where I was still doing whatever activity I happen to be doing.. although I only realized now that it was a FA.. SO anyways I'm going to try and capitalize on this.. And I really need to work on my memory, I've had really awful memory lately.

Well, well, well this morning was quite interesting. I ended up having three, that's right THREE lucids. Yea so they were all DILDs I don't even realize I'm dreaming really anymore I literally just go into dreams like OK I'm dreaming. But, it's only after I get into that mindset. So after my first lucid where I have to realize I'm dreaming, pretty much any dream after that will be just a natural lucid. OH and I had my first experience with dream food this morning, some crazy looking sandwich that was in a hotel room I wandered into.. pretty tasty..

I always think that I wanted to just take in the sights of my lucid dream and just see how long I could make one last, AND YET, I've never done it because I always end up in dream and think about it and say AWW but that's such a waste of a lucid.. WELL this time.. this time, I'm going to do it! Next lucid dream, but who knows when that'll be..

Originally Posted by SpaceCowboyDave: Wow its cool to watch your LDing skills mature throughout this thread. Out of curiosity, why do you want to actively take in the sights so badly? I can understand wanting to do as much as possible while lucid, that's what I would do. -------- WELL you see.. I want to take in my dream sights just to see how long I can make one lucid last.. Will I ever do it? Probably not, I always think that there's so much better stuff that I could do. And even now you know I said that next LD I want to not do anything but I was thinking about stuff that I want to do in an LD because I was feeling like I was doing unimaginative things.. AND those sound SOOO much better than doing nothing.. So yea.. idk.. My next LD will hopefully be Wednesday though..

I think it's about time for a... Lucid Dream Goals Update -Not necessarily in order. ( ) Take my time see how long I can make a dream last. ( ) Work on my spawning, anything. ( ) Perfect levitation. ( ) Reform my telekinesis. ( ) Reform my flying. ( ) Work on this idea I had after I'm good at spawning. (Basically the idea is to be able to spawn various elements of a house and spawn it in a recognizable place so that I can go to it whenever I'm in a lucid dream. Don't really know how well this will go but I thought it was an interesting idea.) - And it'll probably be more of a castle. ( ) Teleportation.. to get back to my dream house.. ( ) I still need to ride a unicorn.. ( ) Spawn a recurring dream friend.. or meet my DG.