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- Tue Aug 12, 2014 5:39 pm
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: TheOnerous's blog of failures
- Replies: 213
- Views: 165131
Re: TheOnerous's blog of failures
Went to bed with high hopes last night but no progress. More tonight.
- Mon Aug 11, 2014 7:05 pm
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: TheOnerous's blog of failures
- Replies: 213
- Views: 165131
Re: TheOnerous's blog of failures
Been catching a few awakenings lately so have been experimenting with separation. Haven't been able to separate into a dream, but have experienced some visual hallucinations after waking so will polish up on the cycling techniques.
- Sun Aug 03, 2014 8:40 pm
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: Inception style confusion
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10549
Re: Inception style confusion
HI Fate Trader.
I look forward to seeing your experiences.
I look forward to seeing your experiences.
- Sat Jul 26, 2014 5:06 pm
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: TheOnerous's blog of failures
- Replies: 213
- Views: 165131
Re: Re: TheOnerous's blog of failures
Events in WL are stopping me from be able to give dreams much attention. Am going to bed very very tired lately!
- Sun Jul 20, 2014 6:56 am
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: TheOnerous's blog of failures
- Replies: 213
- Views: 165131
Re: TheOnerous's blog of failures
Going back to basics at the moment and experimenting with separation. Have some new thoughts on conscious awakenings, but it's early days and there are many experiments to do. The lucid journey continues to fascinate me many years after discovering lucidity. Not many things in my life have done that...
- Sun Apr 13, 2014 11:55 am
- Forum: Questions for Experienced Phase Practitioners
- Topic: Mirror questions
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4732
Re: Mirror questions
I had great fun playing games with my reflection in a lucid dream. My reflection was playing "peekaboo" with me. It was an enjoyable experience, though I know many report they see themselves as a "monster" when they look in a mirror. Maybe expectation plays a part?
- Fri Apr 11, 2014 6:30 pm
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: TheOnerous's blog of failures
- Replies: 213
- Views: 165131
Re: TheOnerous's blog of failures
Still trying to crack it! Keep feeling as though I'm a hair's breadth from cracking the DILD approach. A success this week has given me encouragement. I'm trusting the grey matter to come up with something so it all falls into place. Fun times in dreamland!
- Tue Apr 01, 2014 6:31 pm
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: TheOnerous's blog of failures
- Replies: 213
- Views: 165131
Re: TheOnerous's blog of failures
My last LD was on Christmas Day.
- Sat Feb 22, 2014 5:43 pm
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: TheOnerous's blog of failures
- Replies: 213
- Views: 165131
Re: Re: TheOnerous's blog of failures
14824 views of this blog. Wow.
- Sat Feb 22, 2014 4:24 pm
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: TheOnerous's blog of failures
- Replies: 213
- Views: 165131
Re: TheOnerous's blog of failures
Just two successes since LDing roared back into my life again. Both from (unintentional) afternoon naps. Quite disappointing considering my immersion in the subject, but I'm still enjoying the journey.
- Thu Dec 19, 2013 2:49 pm
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: TheOnerous's blog of failures
- Replies: 213
- Views: 165131
Re: TheOnerous's blog of failures
My passion for experimenting with all things dream related has roared back into my life, just in time for Christmas. Let's see where we go this time
- Wed Aug 28, 2013 7:36 am
- Forum: Entering the Phase (Out-of-Body Experience and Lucid Dreaming)
- Topic: Ideas on waking up and separating
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4617
Re: Ideas on waking up and separating
As I have explained elsewhere, I have done that to the letter in the past and it did not produce results. Even if I use MR's techniques and they produced regular successes I will still keep experimenting and trying to improve my approaches.
- Wed Aug 28, 2013 7:30 am
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: TheOnerous's blog of failures
- Replies: 213
- Views: 165131
Re: Re: TheOnerous's blog of failures
I tried the approaches in SOBT3 verbatim, religiously, but couldn't get them to work more than about six times at most. It wasn't a motivation issue - motivation remained strong throughout my attempts but I could never catch the wakings properly. I'm breaking this week and I'll go back to it this we...
- Wed Aug 28, 2013 7:22 am
- Forum: Questions for Experienced Phase Practitioners
- Topic: Types of waking and indirect technique
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4625
Re: Types of waking and indirect technique
Read the SOBT Michael tells you exactly. Are you sure that's in SOBT3? I don't recall it. I just reviewed it (because using indirect techs has become an option again). Try telling yourself before you sleep.... "Don't move, don't move, separate, separate". No, I never use affirmations with...
- Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:58 pm
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: TheOnerous's blog of failures
- Replies: 213
- Views: 165131
Re: Re: TheOnerous's blog of failures
My main obstacle to achieving consistent success with indirect techniques was catching myself waking. This was how I was thinking about the problem before (reflected in an affirmation): I'll realise I'm waking, keep still and try to separate. But I got to thinking that this doesn't reflect what actu...
- Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:57 pm
- Forum: Entering the Phase (Out-of-Body Experience and Lucid Dreaming)
- Topic: Ideas on waking up and separating
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4617
Ideas on waking up and separating
My main obstacle to achieving consistent success with indirect techniques was catching myself waking. This was how I was thinking about the problem before (reflected in an affirmation): I'll realise I'm waking, keep still and try to separate. But I got to thinking that this doesn't reflect what actu...
- Tue Aug 27, 2013 7:35 am
- Forum: Questions for Experienced Phase Practitioners
- Topic: Types of waking and indirect technique
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4625
Types of waking and indirect technique
I've been experimenting with indirect technique lately (separate on waking etc) and I've observed two kinds of waking: 1) I'm in a dream, feel the dream fading and realise I'm in bed. 2) I realise I'm in bed and I've just woken (and sometimes remember a dream). Is one of these types of waking prefer...
- Tue Aug 27, 2013 7:30 am
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: TheOnerous's blog of failures
- Replies: 213
- Views: 165131
Re: Re: TheOnerous's blog of failures
I tried a SSILD variation last night. Instead of doing cycles of seeing, hearing and body-sensing, I did cycles of: observing-sleepiness, observing the dark behind my eyes, and trying to separate. Interesting results. Very dream packed time from 3am to 7am. Will experiment with this again, but want ...
- Thu Aug 22, 2013 10:39 am
- Forum: Controlling the Phase
- Topic: A cool world to visit
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6806
A cool world to visit
Found this artwork through BoingBoing. The world in these paintings would be a very exciting place to visit in your dreams
http://www.simonstalenhag.se/index.html
http://www.simonstalenhag.se/index.html
- Mon Aug 19, 2013 10:00 am
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: TheOnerous's blog of failures
- Replies: 213
- Views: 165131
Re: Re: TheOnerous's blog of failures
Excellent couple of nights. Have been managing to catch myself waking from dreams the past few nights. This means the door to using the indirect techniques is opening again. I'm really pleased about that because the indirect techniques naturally appeal to me.
- Sun Aug 11, 2013 7:52 am
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: TheOnerous's blog of failures
- Replies: 213
- Views: 165131
Re: TheOnerous's blog of failures
Hi Nova. Well, I'm constantly experimenting with new ideas of my own and combining and toying with existing techniques. Indirect techs, MILD, WILD, DILD, recall, SSILD - everything gets chucked in and experimented with at some point. :D It's a great ride. As much as indirect techniques naturally app...
- Thu Aug 08, 2013 10:40 am
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: TheOnerous's blog of failures
- Replies: 213
- Views: 165131
Re: Re: TheOnerous's blog of failures
Seems like my latest experiments may be good for inducing dreams of choice, but no real sign of lucidity as of yet. Will keep trying.
- Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:12 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Plagiarism: "SSILD" taken from The Phase Guidebook
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13132
Re: Plagiarism: "SSILD" taken from The Phase Guidebook
Just out of interest Summerlander, what course of action would you prefer cosmic.iron to have taken?
- Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:32 pm
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: TheOnerous's blog of failures
- Replies: 213
- Views: 165131
Re: Re: TheOnerous's blog of failures
Recall is quite good at the moment and dream content is interesting. Looking forward to seeing where my dreams take me tonight.
- Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:05 pm
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: TheOnerous's blog of failures
- Replies: 213
- Views: 165131
Re: Re: TheOnerous's blog of failures
Been very busy but the good thing about LDing is you can still make attempts every night Not much progress but I'm starting to try different approaches and making some headway.
- Mon Jun 24, 2013 4:54 pm
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: TheOnerous's blog of failures
- Replies: 213
- Views: 165131
Re: Re: TheOnerous's blog of failures
Experimenting with a hybrid technique at the moment. Will it work? Probably not, but enjoying the journey anyway
- Sat Jun 15, 2013 6:25 am
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: Guylain's blog
- Replies: 1
- Views: 11073
Re: Guylain's blog
Yes, I experienced the same problems. When I first found out about the indirect techniques I was successful on a handful of occasions but then I couldn't achieve a conscious awakening anymore, despite having endless enthusiasm and time to devote to thinking about the challenge and conditioning myself.
- Fri Jun 14, 2013 5:59 am
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: TheOnerous's blog of failures
- Replies: 213
- Views: 165131
Re: Re: TheOnerous's blog of failures
Planned WBTB for 4am but my little one had other ideas. Will break for the weekend now and hopefully come back fresh.
- Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:44 am
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: TheOnerous's blog of failures
- Replies: 213
- Views: 165131
Re: Re: TheOnerous's blog of failures
Another successful night! Another LD, though it is probably more accurate to describe it as being a fake lucid with some pockets of proper lucidity. Hoping for three on the spin tonight!
- Wed Jun 12, 2013 5:18 am
- Forum: BLOGS OF PRACTITIONERS
- Topic: TheOnerous's blog of failures
- Replies: 213
- Views: 165131
Re: Re: TheOnerous's blog of failures
Thanks SL!
Excellent night again last night. One vivid LD, then another dream where I remembered to RC but unfortunately the RC wasn't conclusive. Need to have a good think about what I'm doing right or if it was just a fluke.
Excellent night again last night. One vivid LD, then another dream where I remembered to RC but unfortunately the RC wasn't conclusive. Need to have a good think about what I'm doing right or if it was just a fluke.