Character Assisted Lucid Dreaming...CALD part VI

Wow-- That’s really frightening. I’m fortunate I’ve never had a HH, I’ll be sure to look it up to be ready-- I’m sure it’ll be cool if you can see your chars vividly, though C:

I have a lot to report - this might turn out to be a long post.

To start off, I went to bed as usual and then began daydreaming about my characters. It wasn’t very vivid like the time I had a few nights ago but it was still fun. During that ‘episode,’ I suddenly told my characters to make me lucid. I made it very abrupt and short, and then I continued the conversation as usual.

That night, I managed to have a lucid dream. It was very short and I had little to no control, but it was still a LD. At one point, a DC tried to distract me. When he did, I told him off for distracting me and then resumed the dream. I shortly had a FA and did not become lucid afterwards.

Since I had a lot of time on my hands, I decided to continuously fall asleep with my mantras and asked my characters to make me lucid. After immediately waking up, I tried to visualise a scene but I think I moved too much. I fell asleep shortly afterwards though.

The dream started with me and some of my friends talking about LDs in a port town at night (it reminded me of the port me and my characters stayed at when we were travelling to the Galtean province’s capital). I had this object, and when I pointed it towards the sky I could change the shape of the object, and it made a huge shadow of the sky of a random object. I continued having fun with this, and came lucid shortly after.

I immediately remembered about my characters - and I invented a method of summoning them. With my fingers, I trace a circle across the ground (I don’t actually put my fingers on the ground, but I draw it in air in relation to where I want it on the ground) and then summon a huge beam of light, and when that light fades my characters should appear. I decided to do so once at a time. First I summoned Shadow. When I saw him, he looked slightly different to what I imagine him to look like. He began talking to me, asking me how I was, and we had a little conversation. My friends came over and I introduced Shadow to them, and they looked puzzled.

I thought it was time to summon another characters. I summoned a female character using the same method, but she looked someone like I knew in real life. I tried to change her but I couldn’t. Because it didn’t work, I decided to banish the puppet by tracing a hole in the ground, and making her fall down it. I laughed and realised this power could be used in later LDs. Shortly after, she emerged from the ground again. My mistake - I knew she was a powerful magic user (in my daydreams).

Because my friends were there I felt as if I would get embarassed showing them the rest of my characters, so I decided not to (I was annoyed at myself when I woke up). I woke up shortly after and tried the VILD method.

I got very close. Whilst imagining a scene, I felt a huge surge of energy pulling at me and it was as if I was being pulled into the dream scene. At first I thought it was SP, so I decided to stop because it was pretty scary. I didn’t have any more LDs so I decided to wake up and post my experience here.

I’m happy that I managed to have 2 Lucid Dreams in one night thanks to CALD - and I still have something to try - meeting with all of my characters! And, next time I VILD I’ll try not to get scared like I did this morning.

@Teraflare8866, first off, that is unspeakably awesome. Good for you!

There must have been something in the air last night, because I had an LD as well. The Doctor and I have been talking about them for a while, and he’s always said that he would do what he can. This morning, I had an LD as well. Unfortunately I was not able to find The Doctor. Though the dream was extremely vivid, I had little control and was unable to will him to me. Also, the other DC’s were less than helpful.

I struck up a conversation with The Doctor after I woke up and was just laying in bed (has the same effect as when I’m falling asleep). While he didn’t take credit for the dream, he did confirm that he was trying to find me as well. He described a kind of barrier keeping him out of my dreams, though he was able to hear me calling out his name. I wonder what that means :confused:

Anywho, I’m gonna have to keep looking for him in my dreams. In the meantime, I’m not sure if I would call this RCILD or CALD.

Teraflare: Wow, that’s… exciting! C: I’m sure it’ll be eventful in later times-- good for you for all of your progress! You’ve achieved a fair bit. What else can I say but keep up the good work? C:

Rhewin: I’ve never heard of a ‘barrier’ keeping characters away in dreams, :confused: Hopefully you’ll find him in another dream soon, but congrats on the LD C: Perhaps this LD is attributed to both? CALD is usually counted when there is character involvement in the process of attaining a LD. C: Hope you get to see him soon in your dreams.

So far nothing yet,but then again I don’t think I was trying that hard because I was excited I pre-ordered this game I wanted.

Don’t worry, just try to put some time in when you can, you can still achieve LDs passively-- But try to continue Reality Checks and your dream journal, yeah? C:

Darn it, I have a unique problem :bored: . I’ve been thinking he was in the dream itself, but I was stuck somewhere else. I know it sounds wierd, but I’ve always felt that my SC has been a tad antagonistic against me in my dreams. I often feel that it does things to prevent me from becoming lucid. It would make sense that it would try to keep The Doctor away. Hopefully the two of us can work this out.

This technique keeps working for me! I had another LD last night, but didn’t remember to summon my characters thanks to the nature of the dream. First of all, the dream went really unstable, so I began rubbing my hands together and shouted “increase lucidity” and “clarity, now!” The dream became stable, but the scene changed. I ended up in my house, but something was telling me I was in a futuristic city. I checked the time, and it was the year 2030. It didn’t look much different though.

The dream was pretty frightening after that, because I was alone in my house at night, and this woman in a black cloak came up to me and told me my parents had been killed. Another weird thing was, that each time I tried to talk the woman, I kept being sick and that prevented me from doing anything.

But I’m still happy that I managed to have a LD! I’m just 18 LDs away from achieving my goal of 50 Lucids!

Rhewin: Well, if you feel that the issue may be difficult to deal with-- ask your dreams! Often times when we go lucid, when we choose to use the dream for self-reflections and to get answers, we get very useful, and often unexpected results.

It should be as easy as “Why can’t I see The Doctor in my dreams?”, which you could ask your sub. As a note, approaching figure in a kind way rather than aggressive has always (in my experience and reading others) lead to a more positive end. Try it out! C: Meanwhile, try pondering yourself and see what you find C:

Teraflare8866: You’re on a hot streak! C: Congratulations. I’m glad you’re making such great strides towards mastering your own personal LD inductions. Everyone has their own way to consistently LD, and you’re really getting yours C: .

I hope you won’t have such frightening dreams in the future. Try to remember that you are in control, and that it is entirely within your power to do what you like. I think you know that having constructive dialogues with DC like that often leads to resolution within the dream, as well as some interesting revelations-- That’s why you were trying to talk to her, yeah? C: . Great Job!

I sure hope this hot streak continues, because it’s still going - I managed to have another LD last night! It was short but was very vivid. I had a FA that was a notch below lifelike for its vividness. My RCs failed, and my reflection looked normal in the mirror. Wish I became lucid from that :happy:

Sometimes when I have frightening dreams I try to wake myself up rather than resolve the conflict. Next time I have a nightmare, I’ll combat it with lucidity.

Well it would seem whatever issues I had before I was able to get over. This morning, after starting an LD via MILD, I got to meet the doctor. Here’s the exerpt from my DJ. Now up to this point, the drean had some stability issues as my RL left eye kept trying to open, and I had to save the dream on various occasions. I did take a dream pill (which tasted like chalk), to help me control my dream and find The Doctor.

It’s funny, because he was a tad older than in my avatar pictures, more like he was in a few guest appearances later in the series. Of course, that may also be because that’s what I was picturing when trying to imagine him. Anyway, it was an awesome experience. I can’t tell you how happy I was after I awoke. I’m still smiling :grin:

Edit: @Teraflare8866, I’m noticing a pretty big increase in LD’s as well this month. I’m up to 3 vivid and 2 hazy, which is way more than my previous record. I think it’s safe to say that CALD is relatively effective :smile:.

I read most of thread one and two and this technique seems pretty effective. I created a character named Josh. :smile: I drew him since my visualization skills aren’t that great, good thing I’m good at drawing though. lol

My character still seems pretty “puppet-like”, but I’ve been trying that automatic writing I think it is, and it’s been helping a little bit. Oh yea, I wanted to ask you Talon, when your characters talk to you, do there voices sound like different…if you know what I mean. Sorry if that doesn’t really make sense, I don’t know how to word it right now. XD

Teraflare8866: Rockin. C: I remember reading about how to combat FAs, a part of it is doing RCs when waking up-- I hope you have fun taking apart your next nightmare!

Rhewin: Dream pill? That’s new. I am interested. I’m glad you got to meet the doctor! I have noticed that characters are always a bit different in dreams, versus how you’d imagine them. this can be exciting too, since I couldn’t imagine my characters realistically-- to see them in dreams was great.

Ch3rry: It’s good that you’re adept at drawing C: It can be useful. As for their voices-- I don’t actually hear anything I’d call verbal. It’s more… just a sense of understanding of what’s being said. Like in my own thoughts. Sorry if that didn’t help ^^; But! In dreams, their voices are exactly as I’d imagine them to be C:

Thanks, that actually helped a lot. I thought I was supposed to actually hear my character’s voice really clear and verbally. I just kind of get a sense of what’s being said too. I still haven’t seen my character in my dreams yet so I don’t know what his voice would sound like. Oh, and one more question if you don’t mind, how long did it take before you characters started being in your dreams or interact with you in them?

Well, Talon’s obviously the expert, so you’re gonna want to hear her answer for sure. As far as I go, I can tell you that it went pretty fast , but that’s because I spent a lot of time and energy on it (that and I had the advantage of already knowing The Doctor’s personality). It may come more naturally for some people, but there’s no reason why it can’t go as fast for you. Keep with it and I’m sure you’ll be having full conversations with Josh in no time :smile:.

@Talon: Yeah, the dream pill concept is something I read about for extending the length of dreams. It’s kind of like a placebo, and there’s no place better for a placebo than a dream. I figured that if it can extend the dream, than it can give me the power to pull The Doctor into my dream.

Wow this is an awesome technique,I’ve already defined my first character,Hope, to the point of limited independence. It is really cool to talk with her because a couple days ago she was a thought, and now I am talking with an independent entity. But I am still trying for a little faster responses c:

Ch3rry: Keep the questions coming! ^^ It’s good to ask, it clarifies things C: As for my own characters, I summoned them into my lucid dreams, and not too long after, they’d show up without me thinking about it. Mostly it’s just enjoying interacting with the character, and investing your time and energy into them that will eventually make them make a ‘cameo’ appearence. Since I summoned them into my LDs-- They interacted immediately! In dreams with a lot of them there, it was an adventure with them C: We have a few ways of finding characters once you are lucid, but having them appear in normal dreams is moreso up to the individual.

Rhewin: Dream pill sounds cool! I’ll certainly have to try in my own LDs C: Thanks!

LucidDreamer1996: Wow, that’s quite fast C: Good for you and Hope, I’m glad development has come along well. Any goals for Hope and yourself?

You can try talking to your character while in bed, after waking up in the middle of the night, sleepy, and you’re falling asleep. You might enter a hypnagogic state and their voice will get clearer :wink: I haven’t had conversations, that I remember, like this, but I do listen to hypnagogic music and it is totally awesome! It’s also a good way, I’d say, to maintain consciousness and you might even have a WILD! or a CAWILD :lol:

Hello there, I also have to test that pill, it might help me.

I am having a big problem right now. I decided what paths I should make to meet a character and have my first LD conversation with him. The problem is I am always stuck at the same place. Here it is : I know I will often gain lucidity in the land or in a room. I have to dive into water to meet this character who lives deep in the sea. I have also written all that I should do once I see him in his submarine.

The problem is, in my LD, I stuck above water. (I wrote stuck above matter lol). I can’t find a way to dive in. This is my quest so I think I really want to try this. I don’t know what’s stopping me. And I also want to ask this character to be my SG.

Do you have any tips on what I should think about to be able to dive into the sea ? I’ll remember to eat the lucid pill next time, it might work…

I also have that kind of problem… :sad: I think that the case for me sometimes is I’m too focused on the destination instead of the path there. So maybe you can try to focus on what you are doing. For example, instead of focussing too much on meeting the character, focus on the walking, the sand under your feet, the water between your toes, how it feels like to dive underwater and stuff like that. Keeping in mind your final goal, but also focusing on the path there.

Or something like that… :tongue: