Why you should make more of an effort to do RC's.

Quest for Lucidity
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I found out the hard way as to why you should never be put off doing RC’s in Wl, and I feel the need to tell people, because it may help them. Anyway, last night, I had a series of dreams, which led to me coming as close to lucidity as possible. But I didn’t achieve it, because I failed to RC.

Basically, I had been having this long, vivid dream about getting on a bus to go to different places, before cycling around, exploring the new areas I was in. I am very into “exploation biking” as I call it in real life, and so everything seemed completely normal in the dream.

This is where it got a bit confusing. I “woke up”, or at least I thought I did. I didn’t do an RC after waking up, because I forgot/was too tired. But then I thought “I want to go back into this dream, but this time I will try to WILD into it”. I closed my eyes, and started seeing blobs of colour almost instantly. I felt a sinking feeling, and then started to hear lots of noises around me; voices of friends at school.

I opened my eyes slowly, cautious that I was in a dream, and that if I was to get too excited, it would end. But I woke up on the floor, assuming I had fallen out of bed, and didn’t do my RC. This was a split second after I’d told myself to do a RC. Someone explained that I had been sleep walking, and punched my best friend in the nose. I can’t remember exactly what happened after that, but I soon woke up. However, I can remember the room in great deatil; we were in the middle of a town, “Sawtry” in the UK, and it was lightly coloured, with hints of green on the wall. There were military style beds up against the wall on all four sides, and two wardrobes next to the door. There weren’t any windows, but there were still blinds you could pull down, for some weird reason. The floor was white, as was the ceiling, however the floor also had a pattern on it; streaks of gray on it. I could go on for a lot more, but this is not the purpose of this post.

Firstly, I don’t know if I had a FA or not. It seemed as real as real life. I could feel my senses perfectly, and even had to shake my arm a bit because it had gone numb. But I don’t understand how I could have done WILD so quickly (About 30 seconds) Secondly, although I am very annoyed at the fact that I didn’t do an RC despite reminding myself to, I have learnt a lesson to share with you all, which is the main purpose of this post.

I have a habit of “not bothering” to do RC’s if I’m really, really tired. Or if I remember about doing RC’s, sometimes I don’t do them because “I’m certain it’s already waking life”. If anyone else has the same habit as me, please try to change it, because as you’ve just heard, it can affect your tendancy to use one in a dream. From now on, I’m going to make much more of a habit to do an RC every time I remember, regardless of how tired I am, or what I believe :smile:

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good point.

by the way you did WILD so quickly because it was actually DEILD. some people have actually suggested this tech to me, cause it’s the ‘easy and fast method of WILD’. it happens cause you’ve just woken up and your body is still kind of asleep, so you can skip the terribly bothersome part of WILD where you trick your body into sleeping.

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I would say that this was FA, few days back I’ve also had very convincing FA, and by doing the same mistake as you, not doing RC instantly after waking up I thought I was actually awake. And that is maybe the reason why you manage to WILD so fast, because you were in a dream.

But my experience is telling me different, if you can call one attempt any experience :shy:, so I had another FA where I was trying to WILD but I couldn’t get it right, and that’s maybe because of lack of my experience in WL with WILD technique. So I believe that you succeed in WILD while having FA because you had enough experience in WL to go trough with it…

Peace!

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i don’t think so :colgate: i SUCK at WILD, can’t do it at all, but i once did it in my dream :rofl: we are possibly able to do it in FAs because we know what result we want, and the mind or SC gives us that desired result.

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The fact that your WILD attempt worked so quickly was because you were chaining or DEILDing. You wake up, lay still and wait till you roll, fall or float out of bed or just enter a new dream. It usually takes me less than a minute. This month I even managed to chain about 10 LDs in a row using this technique. Personally i dont even do a RC when I consciously wake up. I just lay still and wait for the next dream. It doesnt matter if it’s a FA or a real awakening, because either way you’ll end up in a new dream.

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On the topic of DEILDs, is each chain counted as one collective dream, or each time falling back asleep count as a new dream? It probably becomes a bit of a grey area when it’s ambiguous as to whether the awakening was real or dreamt itself. What is the general consensus?

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i think everyone counts their dreams the way they want to :tongue: some don’t even count at all. it’s not a matter of number or “who’s got more” after all, so it doesn’t really matter :smile: i’d say go with how you feel about it… what motivates you the most :smile: cause i know if i’d have multiple successful chaining efforts, i’d count them all as separate dreams :happy: that’s cause it motivates me the most :smile:

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Personally I counted those chained dreams as a single dream, eventhough it were all seperate dreams with different dreamscapes. It felt weird to double my lucid dream count in a single night.

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like i said, everyone does it in their own way :smile: there are no rules.

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I’m just going to throw in my two cents :content:

I personally count each chain as a separate dream. However, like avalinah said, there aren’t any rules! What one person considers three separate dreams could be two to someone else and one to another!

It’s the same with dream length. My long dreams are about five minutes of real time. To someone else, that could be just a fragment. Its all about how YOU see your dreams, not how someone else defines theirs.

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Good points people. Lucid dreaming is an intensely personal experience (shared dreaming notwithstanding :lol: ) so it makes sense that the counting of them, if done at all, is up to the individual.

I’m with avalinah on the counting of separate dreams within a chain. I’m a bit of a nerd for stats, so the thought of increasing my ‘tally’ spurs me on :twirl: