Sorta stealing this from Sean999's Nightly WBTB Meetings. Instead of meeting nightly I was hoping someone could join me Saturdays for a WBTB/WILD attempt session.

My plan? To wake up at 5 or 6 am on a Saturday morning, get online and chat with someone for a bit before we both head back to bed and hopefully have ourselves some lucid dreams.

Also, if this works out I'd like to try the chat in a virtual world, something like Second Life, to add another dimention to the experience. A virtual chat could be fun and might produce some strange dreams at the least. Not sure how long the chat session would be. Guess that would have to be worked out as we go, figuring out what amount of time makes for a productive session.

So, anyone up for a WILD weekend? Not sure how lovable I'd be at 5 am on a Saturday so you'd better be prepared for some potential virtual vexxxy clawage.

... I mean ...

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Quote from: Vex Kitten on August 07, 2009, 07:39:41 PMMy plan? To wake up at 5 or 6 am on a Saturday morning, get online and chat with someone for a bit before we both head back to bed and hopefully have ourselves some lucid dreams. Is that 5 or 6 am central time?

O.o Even EST that's way too late for me (well will be). I'd like to hear/see how it goes though, even if I can't/probably won't be able to do it.

I bet Vexxie is talking Pacific time....which is even earlier..

That would be EST (which I was sure I added to the post earlier... must have accidentally deleted it or something))

I've been trying WBTB on my own for a few weeks now, waking 5am Sunday mornings, with no luck. I recall loads of dreams but no luck getting lucid or having WILD yet. I was hoping a few minutes of actual dream discussion before heading back to bed would help. Just reading about or manras arent working.

I'm going to fly solo again tonight and see if I can WILD. I think I'll add Lucid Ground to the mix this time around and see if it'll boost my chances of getting lucid. Even a few seconds of lucidity would be welcome.

Good luck.  I continue to try, without a lot of success.

Let me know when you want to do the WBTB; I'd try to give it a shot.

Sorry it took so long to reply but I'd love to try this with you Moonbeam. I'm thinking of starting the first Saturday/Sunday of September.

I'm still trying ot WILD on my own Saturday nights. No success to date.

Oh that's OK.  I'm still trying too.  We'll talk about it again before that.

Still up for this Moonbeam? I wanted to start this weekend but my internet is nuts lately. It shuts off for no apparent reason every little while. Think it has something to do with the telephone line, my phone is really staticy too. Hope to get it fixed up by next weekend, and if so will you do me the honour of being my WILD woman?

Vex I'm sorry I'm just seeing this; I was looking for something and found this and realized I hadn't seen it.  I was kind of sick this weekend.  I should be better by next weekend, but I think that was this weekend.

Can we try again next week?

NExt weekend is great. My internet connection was screwed up big time last weekend anyway. I could only be online for a couple of minutes at a time before it would up and die without warning. Got the phone line guy out here yesterday and it seems to be running okay so far.

I'll be back in a bit. Got homework to do.

OK, cool.

Well...can't go to school and not have a little homework...

A little homework?  I wish.

All    and no  makes vex a

Why was I not informed of this earlier!

If you don't mind, I would love to do this too! I've been wanting to get my WILD's back.

Hey - I'll try to be on tomorrow morning at 5:00 AM EDT.

Never bothered to check your time zone, Vexxie.  Either way, missed you this morning.  I'll try again tomorrow!

I just realized that 5:00am EDT is too early for me. Oh well.

Oh yeah - you're a few hours to the west, aren't you?

Sorry Sean & PJ, I should have checked back here sooner. Been very busy what with it being the first full week of schoolin.

Im In southern ontario, EST. Not too far from Toronto. I'll be on later tonight/early this morning, hoping to catch Moonbeam too tonight too if she's up. I'll lurk about the chat during the WBTB and see if anyone is on. If not I'll just hang out here and spam up MM for a little while before going back to bed.

We are in the same zone, Vexxie. . . MB is an hour west of us.

Excellent. You going to be on early Sunday then? I just sent Moonbeam a pm and hope she gets it before she heads to bed.

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Gotsta go. I'll be back soon.

What time? I think 6:00am your time would put me at 3:00am which is fine with me. Alright with you?

Edit: If I'm not mistaken.

I was looking toward 5:00, but 6:00 is fine with me too.  An hour either way is no big deal for me.

Cool!  It would be great to get four of us on here.  Hope you can join us too, Sean!

Great, now just need the okay from Vex and Moonbeam. If either of them are unable, feel free to revert back to 5:00am.

Well, I'll leave it up to you guys--I'm a little afraid if I get up at 5:00 (central), I may not get back to sleep--that's getting close to my regular weekday getting up time.  So if Vex wants to stay at 5:00 eastern, 4:00 central, I'll come then--if she wants to move an hour later, I'll try it and see what happens, but I'll be a little worried.

It's hard when we are so spread apart time zone wise.

I could always go the hour early I guess, not that big of a deal. Or, maybe a 30 minute compromise?

Sure I'll do what everybody else is doing.

Let's shoot for the 5:00 EDT then.

Watch - I'll be the one who oversleeps now - which I never do.

I just got back.

I agree that we should stick with 5 am this weekend and see what happens. If we want to meet again and shoot for a LD next weekend we can work out the time over the next few days.

Looking forward to chatting with you all soon.

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off to bed I go

Reporting back after the 1st group WBTBWILD weekend.

I didn't have a full blown LD.

But on the positive side I did start to WILD but I woke  up about 5 seconds or so later. That's the most intended WILD time I've had in a long time. edit not sure it's actually classifable as a WILD since I was still in the HI phase when it happened. I was watching the HI, it formed into a very long log that stretched out into the distance. I thought, 'when I get to the other side of this log I'll be in a dream'. I started across it, not walking or anything, just moving up the length of it and woke up a few secs later. Still, it's a notch closer to getting some WILD action.

I used mantra, HIT technique, socks for slight discomfort to keep me aware, RCing and of course chatting about dreams early this morning with a bunch of other wonderful folks who were crazy enough to join me. Thank you all for meeting up and I"m sorry I was not overly chatty. My fingers were not cooperating this morning.

Also, something interesting about how suggestable drowsy minds are, I didn't realize how cold it was until it was mentioned in the chat last night. That got me thinking that maybe we should make positive LD suggestions randomly in the conversations if we plan to try this again. Or maybe listen to the MM theme song while chatting. The comments throughout the song might lodge in our subconscious more easily if we're all groggy and suggestable in the wee hours of the morning.  (or maybe it's just me who's so weakminded lol)

Just a thought.

Thanks again guys and would you like to give this a try next weekend?

I really enjoyed the session!

If all goes well, I won't be within reach of the internet next weekend. . . but I'll be doing the WBTB and trying to WILD!

From now on, I'll be checking MM's chat when I wake in the morning if it is early enough.  It usually is.

Vex I think you're right about the suggestability.   It worked for me, but I had a little help from a certain substance.  However, it was a lot better than I've been doing lately, so there was a benefit.

Unfortunately, I got into trouble for it.  I tried to be quiet, but I guess I wasn't quiet enough.  But I'm going to try and sneak up here whenever I wake up early too, like pj.  Oh I also went back to bed in the spare bedroom, so that might have helped too--a different place.

I enjoyed the chat too. I didn't expect so many to be there but the more the merrier.

Good luck WBTBing next weekend pj. Maybe I'll catch you online early some morning. I joined a 6am exercise class in a fit of self consciousness and might be up early enough on Mondays and Wednesdays to catch someone online. ... 6am.. what was I thinking...

Good to hear you made some progress Moonbeam. My progress was minimal but it's a step in the right direction. Hope you didn't get in too much trouble.

If anyone is up for it next weekend I'll be around in the wee hours of Sunday morning. If no one's around I'm sure I'll be able to amuse myself in chat. Playing with myself is my specialty.

o.O

I bring good news! I am quite certain that I was in fact lucid at some point last night! I only remembered a few minutes ago when I performed a nose RC. It reminded me of performing it during a dream, but that's about all I can remember. I also tried the "tongue through the roof of the mouth" RC, but it didn't work.

I'm gonna get lucid again tonight!

On another note, I too made a bit of progress with my WILD. I was actually ABLE to concentrate for once! At one point I got a certain heavy feeling but from past experiences, it doesn't lead anywhere. There's a different "heavy feeling" that does lead to SP, but alas, I did not reach that point. But, for a first real attempt in many months, it was good progress.

I think I may WBTB each night again, though not necessarily at the same time as last night. Unless someone wants to join me..?

Good work!  Progress.  Keep it up.

Quote from: Vex Kitten on September 20, 2009, 03:39:55 PMGood to hear you made some progress Moonbeam. My progress was minimal but it's a step in the right direction. Hope you didn't get in too much trouble. Bah, nothing serious.  I was just confused this time and made more noise than I had to.  Next time I'll be more ready.

QuoteIf anyone is up for it next weekend I'll be around in the wee hours of Sunday morning. If no one's around I'm sure I'll be able to amuse myself in chat. Playing with myself is my specialty.

I'm going to try.  If we make it a regular thing, maybe some of us can always show up at least.  It's always more fun to play with others than just ourselves.    But that's what dreaming really is, I guess, playing with ourselves.

Wooo! WILD party at MM!

Pardon my intrusion, but i like this idea.

It might be a good idea to have different chat partners for different timezones. I usually WBTB around 4 am mountain/daylight standard. I have a skype account. add me. or I can check the MM chat and see if anyone is around.

We pop into chat. I couldn't last week because my damn internet was off and on all weekend. Didn't even bother to check it early sunday morning.

I will continue to try and both be awake at that time and to get my ass out of bed for a little while.

It's been a while since I've jumped in, and my participation remains unlikely for the rest of this month.

Boy, you just wait for December though!  Everything's gonna change.

When this semester is over I'm going to try to get into MM at 5am as much as possible before the next semester starts. I need to whip this into a habit. There's so much I need to do while lucid.

Well, I woke up at 4:00 on a WEd, but that doesn't seem to be a good time.

Yes, let's try again.

I'll set my alarm for 3 or 4 am. maybe i'll see one of you in chat.

WBTBing 5am. Lets all get lucid this morning and converge on PJ's shed.

Didn't have the chance to get lucid this weekend, kept getting awakened every little while by loud pets and a damn alarm that went off every half hour from 6 am about 7:30 am... an alarm that someone should have shut off since he didn't have to go to work this weekend.