Lucidity Challenge 48 - Task 3 - VampireVolfGame

obfusc8 what techniques are you using for lucid dreams?

Damn straight I did! :happy:

As for techniques, well I started with MILD and can still be heard muttering the odd mantra to myself while studiously ‘checking my fingernails’ (hand reality checks).
But lately it’s all about All Day Awareness (or in my case, as-often-as-I-remember-awareness) and mixing in a bit of WILD. (I’m not much good at WILD but I’m experimenting.) Basically, if I do fall asleep instead of WILD then hopefully good awareness gives me a chance for a DILD. That’s the theory. Was working well last week, not so much this week. :meh:

I turned into a werewolf in a non-lucid dream.

Dream

Another LD challenge miss :cry: though I got very close. This LD was about 20-25 mins long so for me its counted as a medium length LD.

Went to bed intending to trigger a WILD so I get into my new WILD position and try to go to sleep. I decide to do exactly what I did the other day when I ended up with the chain of 3 dreams. My intent, an effortless LD on falling asleep.

This works, within 10 mins I find myself suddenly in a LD… I’m in darkish shop (I forget the first 5-10mins of the LD though I certainly was lucid.

[color=darkblue]I decide to stop looking around and start to think about what task I should do as I want the early bird points I start thinking of our latest tasks. I firstly think about he flying over mountains but seeing I’m the middle of the city, I decide one of the other tasks may be easier.

I decide to try to do the turn into a werewolf thing but before I start the challenge due to too many recent LD dropouts on entry, I decide best stabilise myself first, I’ll be pissed off if I loose this lucid before I get to try to do anything. I choose to on this occassion to just rub my hands together briskly while thinking … I’m in a lucid dream… feel my hands, I spend a couple of minutes doing this [/color](usually I use more complex stabilisation techniques but I’m in a hurry to get on with the LD challenge tasks!).

I go out seeking a werewolf to bite me to change me. Having had the fly over a mountain thing in my mind I decide to fly to search the ground below for one
(wow… I’m usually crap at flying and usually scared of this as I’ve crashed and it hurt before but this time I wasn’t over thinking things and just easily flew).

I’m flying over parks. To my amazement there are colourful little dragons flying about too. (I’m amazed to see this as generally my LDs are much like real life unless I bring something strange there and I cant ever remember having a dragon in my dream before).
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I fly for about 5 mins but are only spotting dragons and people so I decide to land and do an on foot ground search for a werewolf. I look in a couple of well lighted places but no werewolves to be found so I start to think of what dream symbolism may go with creepy things like werewolves and decide … well probably dark. So I start looking in dark places for one.

I enter into a creepy dark shed purposely holding the thought, there is going to be a werewolf there! (trying to manifest one). The smell of moldy hay hits my nose as I enter the shed, its so dirty in this place, it’s discusting and hence I start to seriously worry about “I’d better be in a dream right now or otherwise I’m right now walking around in a dark place filled with rats, spiders and goodness knows what!”.

It’s so real like, the reality of the smell of the molding hay and this place, I’m starting to not be sure if Im dreaming or not but force myself to continue as there is no way I’m going to chicken out and try to wake myself up to make sure I’m in a dream and loose my chance for more points. “Oh well if this isnt a dream, what’s a few rats going to do to me I think, though I’m scared of those, lets be realistic about this, what’s worst for me… risking this may be real or loosing my LD?.” I decide to loose my LD would be worst I think to myself

I decide this starting to doubt my LD is bad and will end up likely causing me to loose my lucid dream consciousness if I allow these dream doubt thoughts to continue, so I decide to slam the doubt away by focusing intently on the lucid dream task. I put all my thought into “This is a lucid dream, Is there a werewolf here?” I think to myself.

There is movement and there is something in this dark shed with me. I think at first its a person but then when it speaks due to its voice, I start thinking it is maybe a werewolf? I don’t know but it then starts talking about werewolves. He’s wanting to give me a lesson on them. I get excited “Oh great, he’ll teach me how to change into one”, (I wasn’t feeling like I could just change without help). …

So he (the werewolf?) starts to give the werewolf lecture “I’m here to teach you about the … werewolves finger”

“OHHHHHHHH NO!.. this isn’t the lesson I want”. At this a huge wave of disappointment hits me and I drop out of this dream. [/color]

When I woke up my heart was racing (my body doesn’t regulate its adrenaline properly and I haven’t been bothering taking my pills to stop huge adrenaline spikes which then hugely spike my BP up to dangerous levels… maybe it was that which woke me… that dream did give me quite a rush… looking around in the dark waiting for a werewolf to jump me and the surprise I got at the end).

When I dropped out, I woke up in bed and know I can at this point easily put myself probably straight back into this same dream but I also aware on waking I’ve already forgot some of this lucid dream. So instead of focusing on getting back in, I lay there for a couple of minutes focusing on the dream, trying to bring the full recall back but don’t manage to remember right back to the start, though regained my memory of the dragons and flying.

I seriously do need to work on my dream recall right now sighs I used to have great LD recall in the past, so this is another new issue for me, it’s like I’m starting all over again. So I decide to get out of bed and post this here.

This way when I go back to bed and try to dream chain and possibly go into one again (I often can run with them once I have one) no-one can think or say that I didn’t wake up properly in between my LD attempts and hence only give me 5 points for going back to a lucid dream)

So my plan now is to get out of bed and type each one out between the chaining (doing all this typing may make it a little harder to get back in …I guess I’ll get to see just how much computer light affects this. It’s my confidence levels at the time which play a big part of my success at dream entries… if I truly really believe I can re-enter one, I often can).

Oh crap I just read my task list again and saw I only remembered 3 out of the 4 new ones during this lucid (I’m avoiding the drain energy from something as I once did psi vamp stuff and don’t want to trigger that in anyway for me). If I’d remembered “accuse a DC of being a wolf/vampire”… that one would of been simple to do with all the people about and I finally would of gained my first actual task points.

I had 2 short LDs this week

I just become lucid right towards the end of a dream. I was lucid for too short a time (short LD) to get to do any tasks.

[color=darkblue]She reaches out and I see there is a knife on the ground she’s reaching for, she grabs it.

I’m shocked I’m about to be cut so this brings me to sudden awareness into this dream. I’m now lucid in it.

I make a grab for the knife but by now her own hand has reached it and it’s in her clasp. She viciously pulls the knife back, slashing my whole hand open. The shock of my palm being slashed wakes me physically up.[/color]

[spoiler]I’m out somewhere at a place with a group of people. There is someone who is interviewing ME/CFS patients who is asking us one at a time questions. Each one of us shares just how terribly ill we are, each with horrific stories to share. The other is shocked to hear the levels of illness among us. It gets to my turn and I start telling him stuff. He asks “Hasn’t your doctor helped you with this?” and I have to explain my doctor doesn’t know what to do.

The other grabs my hands and wants me to get up and try to dance with him, he’s waiting to see if I can do this. I end up collapsing to the ground due to trying to dance.

A young women comes over, she wants to help me. She’s deeply religious and believes they can help me (the religious group). She starts going on and on and on about things, trying to brainwash me into thinking they can cure me. I end up fleeing them before I’m brainwashed into their religious beliefs etc.

The young woman feels like she’s to blame in some way that I’m leaving, so I yell out to her once I get to the road (she’s still at the top of the houses driveway), “Do not worry, its not your fault I’m ill, you should think of yourself as a wonderful person as you tried to help”.

The young women who wants to help me by converting me to her religion, gets so upset about things that she ends chasing me down the road. She catches up with me and I make a run towards someone’s house for help. She throws herself at me as I’m going across the others front lawn and knocks me to the ground with her on top of me. She reaches out and I see there is a knife on the ground she’s reaching for, she grabs it.

I’m shocked I’m about to be cut so this brings me to sudden awareness into this dream. I’m now lucid in it. I make a grab for the knife but by now her own hand has reached it and it’s in her clasp. She viciously pulls the knife back, slashing my whole hand open. The shock of my palm being slashed wakes me physically up.[/spoiler]

I’m heading back to bed, trying to make it to 3 LDs tonight. I NEED some task points, I’m finding my number of points currently for a LD challenge quite embarrassing. I’m going to be wrecked today as I have someone coming in a few hours. (pity I can’t do this often as it just messes up my sleep way too much).

In the first of the dreams here, I am again my cyborg avatar from last week and am addressed as a colleague of a DC as we sneak into a building. Most of this is Task 2 stuff I already did, but since I’m pretty sure I’m not a cyborg or a dragon-unicorn hybrid IWL (a pity, I know), I believe my form and the DC’s interactions qualify for the role play task.

OK, so LC VVG was a test to see if I could do something extra with the LC. It seems that it might have been a bit much :razz:.

With only three votes this time, I’m going to go ahead and end it.

While you can consider yourself to be on your current team, there will be no team advantage this round. Think of this like it’s more of a classic LC task. Just a few extra tasks here and there. Competitive teams will return in task 4.

Two lucid dreams, one medium duration, one long duration.

One in which I transform into Anna from Disney’s Frozen and dance with Krystof in a snowstorm to the tune of “Let it Go”.

And a much darker one where I’m in a vampire movie. I don’t think there were any points on offer for “get turned into a vampire”, so I’ll just claim the points for lucidity.

turns out i am doing something very similar to ADA, but thanks obfusc8! it was a great read =D
i too forget to do the it, keep reminding myself, the key is i believe, once you remember to do the ADA is to keep it up and not just do it for a few seconds.

it reminds me of a certain “threshold” ive had while using the sleep yoga WILD technique i use, which draws your waking awareness into the dream. at a certain point i just started having much more vivid dreams even if theyre not lucid.

Inconceivable! :happy:

Ok this one is a normal dream. I use a spell which ‘drains elements’ on some ghouls and convert said elements back into natural energy. (It made sense in the dream.) The ‘elements’ looked like ghosts/life force energy when drawn out of the ghouls. Didn’t personally feed off it though, I used it to nourish the plants. Close but probably not vampire-y enough for the task?

I had a long LD last night, and in one of my dreams last week, I moved something with my mind.

Isn’t it? I wanna be special, darn it!

I had a medium-length LD this morning, posted here (second dream), in which I turned into a were-creature and drained a DC.

I RPed as a soldier in a CS inspired dream. In another dream I RPed as a pirate in One Piece universe. Both were non-lucid.

I had a (very) short LD last night (yeaah first LD of the LC!), I didn’t accomplished any task though.

I just teleported outside my house started to fly and to freeze time (or to fly incredibly fast) to get on time to a meeting with a friend. Then the dream vanished already…

Yeah my first 10 points this time! :happy:

Short LD no tasks.

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so turrbly sorry Rewhin, had so many dream so much of them lucid, a lot of tasks, i didnt even get to write them all yet O.O
this is what happens when i actaully write down my dreams at night … eight dreams …

i neeeed fooood

ill write the others soon, will let you know
first time using FILD - a great and easy technique you should all use it, got me a lot of cool dreams - lucids

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i actaully decided that night taht im backing off the LC, not quitting, but i have agreat attraction to use lucid dreams for a greater reason.

but hell, ill keep you updated if stuff like this happenes

im not going ot correct my grammer mistakes

im done . food. work… will write later , the rest that is, the dreams , .a., ,. a.,samlas ma

O.O

also did my personal task which is electrokinesis/lightening from my body

and need to add a detail in a dream, i bit a girl vampire style

Congrats Koal. :grin: . I just did my first actual LD challenge so finally get some task points up too.

augh… I’m obviously warmed up after a few weeks now, pity its taken me most of the challenge time to get to this point with my LD again. ah well if we have a week left I’ll be trying to complete all the tasks in this time (though of cause now I’ve lost my early bird points so don’t think I can win the challenge even if I had a good night and just did LD after LD to get through all the challenges).

In the LDs I just had, I did the

  • role playing
  • I tried eating something not eatable but aren’t sure if I score point there as it truly wasn’t eatable, trying to eat it was so ghastly it was what I think may of caused me to drop out of the dream.
  • I accused someone of being a vampire.

I went to do the wishing well task after these but decided best to wake myself up to write this all down as I had forgot half of the first LD by doing these one after the other after the other. I didn’t wake up between these (medium length LD, short length LD and 3rd one was short length LD), I just dropped out but was still in a asleep state (so they count as one dream don’t they if one dropped out of each but didn’t wake up? … so I guess that is 5 extra point?).

If I didn’t have to worry about my memory, I would of tried doing the whole 3 weeks worth of tasks tonight. It’s taking me about 30 mins to go into a LD.

[spoiler]I cant remember the point I became lucid in the first dream as I did a second LD immediately after this one and in doing that I forgot 90% of the first one (I did debate whether to wake myself up before doing the second one while very clear with the first as I was concerned I may forget the dream otherwise, I should of done that).

In the first dream I ate pasties. After I finished pigging out on the pasties. I thought “oh shit I’m supposed to eat something not eatable but now I’m feeling very full” (maybe the pasties and eating them made me become lucid due to reminding me of the challenge but I think I may of been lucid before that).

I then looked around for something not eatable to eat and couldn’t really see much I could pick up to eat, so ended up doing what another here did and thought I’d eat an article of my clothes. I found I was wearing a jumper so I tried to eat that. Trying to eat into it was aweful, I couldn’t get my teeth to bite though it and just had a mouth of knitted wool jumper. It was too dreadful and I couldn’t swallow it.

(my LDs are so realistic usually, next time I’ll find something not eatable which is small and I can just swallow so don’t have to chew. I didn’t think of taking my jumper off and trying to shrink it).

Then I dropped out of that dream (probably cause the jumper eating was so bad!!), so then tried to get myself into another dream, so was just thinking “I want to be somewhere with a person to accuse of being a vampire or werewolf” … I didn’t care about the location so just focused on task thought. Note - I didn’t wake up during this dream dropout so was still asleep.

I suddenly found myself in a forest setting (the first dream wasn’t in a forest) and there was a young man there. So I accuse him “You are a vampire” … and he goes “yes I are a vampire” and bares his teeth at me.

So I decide to have some fun and say to him “My teeth are bigger then yours!” and bare a set of huge vampire teeth at him back (role playing a vampire). He went into extreme nervous giggling at this which was very funny to me, I almost laughed myself out of the dream and then he run off in fright. I decide to continue to get my fun so chased him through a forest.

Then I had another dream drop out (but was still asleep) and brought the forest setting back in to hunt for a wishing well to do that challenge but at this point then decided I’d best wake myself up as I already know I’d forgotten most of the first LD and was at risk of forgetting the first one entirely and wasn’t sure if attempting to eat something scores points or if I had to actually eat the thing so didn’t want to forget that. Nor my the vampire part of the second dream.
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Here’s my highlight of these lucid dreams (the full version is on the spoiler). I still think of the DCs nervous giggles at what I did and its still making me want to laugh.
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I suddenly found myself in a forest setting (the first dream wasn’t in a forest) and there was a young man there. So I accuse him “You are a vampire” … and he goes “yes I are a vampire” and bares his teeth at me trying to frighten me.

So I decide to have some fun and say to him “My teeth are bigger then yours!” and bare a set of huge vampire teeth at him back (role playing a vampire). He went into extreme nervous giggling at this which was very funny to me, I almost laughed myself out of the dream and then he run off in fright. I decide to continue to get my fun so chased him through a forest[/color]

OH. How do you remember that many without writing them down? That’s a serious question.

I used to have 7-8-9 dreams per night but the only way I could ever remember more then a couple each night was to program myself to wake up after each single one,so I could write it down. This ended up completely messing with my sleep terribly so I ended up giving up wanting to remember my dreams for a long while.

how do you remember that many? excellent memory???