Character Assisted Lucid Dreaming...CALD part VI

Thanks I do hope to have another LD soon, but didn’t have one last night because I felt very ill and was too much in pain to try the technique (I’ve got the sickness bug ). I’m feeling a little bit better now, and should be well enough to try CALD mixed with VILD.

Just to say I have a lot of time on my hands, so I’ll report the CALD I had on Friday morning. I’ll type it up here since I forgot to do so in my offline DJ.

Dream #54 - Utopia Is Near
11th Feb - 12 Feb

This dream first began at my school. I began talking to my friend about his birthday, and he said it is a few months away and he will be having a party. I felt happy and asked him what he wanted for his birthday. He said he wanted an Xbox360 (like he told me in Waking Life). After a bit of a chat I walked onto the back field at my school to find a huge pool of water with women sitting in it. It was a luxourious body of water, and the tiling looked very expensive around the edges of the pool. The fairies (apparently they were) began talking to me about an ancient city, and one of the fairies would have to assist me to the city. One of the fairies (can’t remember her name, but she was a fairy alright) stepped out of the pool and directed me to a huge mansion. Suddenly, a person I knew appeared and made me lucid. At the time I thought this was one of my characters, but it turns out it wasn’t.

In the mansion was these people, and they wanted to teach me how to use a sword. I summoned a two-handed sword, and they summoned a creature at random. It turned out to be a huge bird that was roughly ten foot in size, and it began floating. I ran to slice the monster, but it disappeared and when I ran back it appeared again. After a few attempts it got tedious so I decided to lay it off and talk to some of my friends. He wanted to listen to some of my music, but when I told him he was distracting me from my LD, he began crying and then curled up in a ball. I left him alone and walked into the next room, which looked a lot like my kitchen. I was walking around; thanking Talon for the CALD method, and then a woman came up to me and asked me a question. I had never seen the person in my life before, but she looked roughly 30 years old. She told me about this futuristic city. I suddenly realised it was Utopia (which is my mind futuristic city) she was talking about, and she wanted to help me into getting to the city. The woman gave me a tombstone key, and she told me to use it on the crypt in the fairy garden.

I was puzzled. I didn’t know the fairy garden extended any further, and then she gave me a map, and it said the crypt I had to open was at the ‘Cape of Good Hope,’ in the huge field. I thanked her and began to set off for the fairy garden.
Back at the garden there were no fairies left - they had disappeared. I walked across the Cape of Good Hope but couldn’t find the crypt I was supposed to open. I walked right to the edge of the Cape to find that there was a metal fence protecting a huge wasteland. Around me were all these ancient gravestone that looked like they came from an ancient era. Suddenly I started to hear this extremely eerie music and felt a presence around me. I caught glimpse of a shadow stalking me. At the time I felt scared, but I knew I wouldn’t wake up - I had to reach Utopia.

After a bit of walking around I found the crypt. I inserted the tombstone key into the lock and then a huge hole in the ground appeared. I began falling down the hole, but reminded myself it was a dream, and then I floated back up. Before I went down the hole I had to prepare, anything could be down that hole. All I knew was that Utopia was down that hole, and after a few passages I would arrive in the futuristic city where my characters were (I like a good adventure, I didn’t think of summoning or teleporting). I prepared a little, but woke up before I went down the crypt.

It was a brilliant dream, and the next time I have a LD I know where to continue from. I’ll VILD so I can hop next to where I left off.

I’ll check out that Guardian Angel quest sooner or later. It does seem quite interesting.
Thanks again for the CALD technique!

Teraflare: Did you just thank me for the CALD technique? Haha, I should be thanking you for using and reporting it! It’s great that you had a good CALD C: Why don’t you pop over to the CALD dream journal in my sig and post it? That way, lots of other people will quickly be able to see your dream! C:

Good idea! Might go post it in there now.
Can’t wait for tonight - hopefully might have another CALD dream Definitely will be trying again.

Great ^^ I saw it up, thanks for posting! Best of luck tonight C:

I haven’t actually made a character, the character came to me, her name is Maria(could this be Mary? Well i’m jewish anyway…) and she help me to do an OBE !
Can I use her for CALD ?

Yep, no problem there C:
Try having her assist you with autosuggestion by striking up a conversation about lucid dreaming with her tonight till you sleep, or try to get her to assist you into lucidity in your dreams tonight! She’s completely able to assist with CALD as long as you have her, regardless of where you got her from.
A brief tutorial of CALD is in my signature if you’re interested in looking! C:

Do you have any other questions?
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Thanks for the help.
If I’ll have further questions I’ll ask

No problem C: G’night and happy lucids!

Wow, part 6. No wonder I wasn’t getting replies. Talon’s on it, though.

It’s a matter of hours (about three) before I go to bed again. In that time, I’m going to type up some more info on my characters to get them on the brain, and when I daydream on the brink of sleep I will ask them to make me lucid, as usual. I might even use a mantra such as “My character will make me lucid in my dream” or something similar to help me. Then I’ll VILD just as I am about to fall asleep. Can’t wait!

I can have someone in my head talk to me without me making up the replies.If so how do I start I already have a character.

This method’s definitely got potential - I had another LD last night. It was weird - I suddenly had a weird thought that someone is trying to tell me that I might be dreaming. I did the nose pinch reality check - but it didn’t work as expected, so I did another RC (the hand one) and it turned out I had 6 fingers. I became lucid, and then tried to summon one of my characters. One character appeared, but my character was very blurry, and then I had a False Awakening shortly after. It was a very vivid FA as well - just imagine how cool that would have been if I became lucid

I didn’t think of continuing the Utopia dream at the time. It’s strange how you don’t think of stuff at the time in a dream.

Well, I’m new to this as well, but from what I’ve learned so far the next major step is to get to know your characters. What’s their personality, their likes, their dislikes, etc. If you already know them pretty well, and they know you too, try asking them about LD’s. See if they’d be willing/able to get you into one. If you do have an LD, try to find them.

Of course, you’ll still want to read the earlier parts of this topic (Parts 1 & 2 especially), and I’m sure Wolvendeer or Talon will be on soon to answer your questions as well . I will say, it must be nice to have a natural ability to create indepenedent character naturally. Good luck!

Teraflare8866: Great job ^^ I’m glad to hear you’re getting good results-- I don’t really know what else to say! You’re really doing well and you know what you’re doing. C: Keep up the great work.

sentis: Hey, C: Rhewin is completely right, knowing your character and discussing lucidity is the next step for you. You make want to have the character help you will Autosuggestion by discussing attaining lucidity before sleeping, or having the character assist with another induction technique of interest, for example I am interested in WILD:

In WILD you can have your character try and keep you aware through the transition from waking to dreams. You can do this by having your characters give you reminders to stay aware, have them stop your mind from straying, or imagining doing an activity with them that engages tactile, audio, and visual senses throughout the process.

Other techniques that can work well is VILD, as described above, where you can incubate a dream that includes your character who could then remind you. Also, if you have trouble remembering to do reality checks, you could have your characters remind you to do so, as well as engage you in a ‘If I were lucid what would I do’ activity and so on.

I hope that helps, and I apologize for the lengthy response.
If you have any other questions I’d be happy to help C:

Rhewin: Good response with sentis above. C: You seem as though you’re really engaged in CALD, and I respect the speed and clarity with which you’ve absorbed the threads and their information. Thanks for making sure that sentis didn’t go without a reply-- it’s because of this positive attitude I see in members like you that I have infinite respect for this forum. C:
How have things been going for you?
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Thanks!
CALD has become my nightly routine now because I daydream a lot about my characters (maybe twice a day). When I CALD I tend to ask my characters to make me lucid quickly, because I find if it is done quickly it is more likely to be subconsciously ‘worked out’ by my characters. I spent 10 seconds talking to my characters about making me lucid, and it turns out that works better for me if I spent short amounts of time than spending ages (not sure if it does for anyone else).

Before I go to bed, I’m going to find a few pictures of stereotypical futuristic cities so I know what to visualise when I have my next LD.

I think i’ll go for VILD first , to do it I have to focus that my character will be in my dreams?

Teraflare8866: That’s great C: . It makes sense that a short bit of time may get the intention set faster-- it’s direct and doesn’t get sidetracked by chit-chat. Good luck in your furturistic dreams C:

sentis: Okidokie. I assume you have read Pedro’s VILD technique post, right? [VILD Technique] That’s just incase you haven’t C: To answer your question-- yes, you just incubate a dream including your character.
What that means is you imagine your dream with your character in it, and set your intention to enter that dream once you fall asleep. Done correctly, hopefully you will enter your dream and your character will make you lucid.
Best of luck on your CALD-VILD attempts!

Thanks again. I’ve been anticipating a futuristic dream for ages.

Sentis, I’m also trying the CALD-VILD hybrid. I haven’t got VILD to work for me yet because I keep falling asleep too soon, but I have got CALD to work for me. From what I heard, VILD works better in the morning because that’s when your REM Cycles are. I also notice that it’s easier to go back into a dream in the morning. When you first go to sleep at night, it takes a few hours before you start dreaming. In the morning, you can literally close your eyes for a minute (you must be pretty tired else you won’t fall asleep) and you’ll be in a dream. This is how DEILD and WBTB works if I recall.

CALD would be interesting to try in a WBTB. I have no school, so I have the chance to try it. I might try it, but it would be hard to wake up at around 5:00am in the morning without waking everyone up first.
One thing I have to say about VILD though - I swear I got really close. I started daydreaming myself walking around my house touching objects (I read this elsewhere) and it got pretty vivid, but I snapped out of it and ‘woke up.’

Good luck Sentis, and let’s hope we both get CALDs tonight!

Yeah I’m really into this topic, and whenever I’m interested something I devote a lot of time and energy to it. The big thing I’ve realized so far is that it is all simpler than we beginners think that it is. If I try too hard to make The Doctor independent, then it’s just me daydreaming a conversation. However, when I just go with whatever things my [insert word I’m looking for here. Mind? Imagination?] comes up with for him, he begins to take on a personality of his own and I start. All in all, it’s a matter of simply letting go.

I have had a bit more progress with The Doctor. The other night in my pre-sleep phase I was having a conversation with him. I wasn’t really picturing anything, but after a while I could very vaguely see his face like it was coming through a deep fog. The best thing that could describe it would be HI, but it wasn’t anywhere near that intense or clear. Hopefully that’s a good sign.

Anywho, thank you for your kind words. I’m looking forward to seeing this thread develop even further. By the way, do we have a sticky that’s just the basic tutorial/FAQ on how CALD works? That would be really helpful for a lot of newcomers as this discussion is growing so fast.

Teraflare: Looking forward to your results. Good luck with your CALD-VILD!

Rhewin: We’re very alike in that when we like something we dedicate lots of energy-- I do that often with new things and research the crap out of it! Haha C: I like your description of your interactions with The Doctor. Your approach is very similar to how we approach LDing in general-- Just sort of a ‘go with the flow’ sort of thing, not too much pushing it.
His growth certainly is very interesting, and seems much more exciting than my own character’s growth! Haha Lucky.
While there is a tutorial on CALD (See my sig below my post) there is no FAQ, however, seeing as there have been a flood of new posts, I’m starting to see what really needs to be answered C:. Rhewin, I like you a lot. We seem to click well, could you help me in composing some questions? I will be answering them, and compiling an FAQ to hopefully append to the CALD Tutorial. Here are some questions I know need to be included in the FAQ:

How do I get the characters out of my dreams?
How do I start making my character?
Do character have to come from dreams?
(The last three seem repetitive but have different answers)
Now I have my character, what do I do?
How do I use my character to get Lucid?
( This is a long answer )
My character isn’t appearing/interacting with me, what do I do?
How do I get my character to appear to me in dreams?

Etc… Would you like to help me? C:
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