FryingMan

Well my "I guess I can go to bed whenever I want and still LD" night 3 nights ago was an anomaly rather than the rule! Short dreams last night (but very vivid! and fun!) and the night before (less vivid).

Read some Holecek (up to chapter 6 now, MY FAVORITE: "A Fundamental Meditation: Mindfulness"!!!!

2 nights ago:

+ It came from outer space! I'm standing outside with somebody, and I look up in the sky and see several massive doors (on fire?) falling towards me. There's no way they're going to come RIGHT AT me and hit me, right? They keep coming. I dodge.

+(f) outside daylight with a girl? and walking around a canal of some sort that makes a U-turn (rectangular) and I need to remember that (something was buried here?)

+(f) inside people around I see a naked girl face down on a bed who is half-human half-doll, the skin is sort of life-like but not really? Another (same?) girl is a naked rag doll and I inspect her "bits" and they're made of cloth?

Last night:

+ Outside, nature/village, daylight. I'm in a tribe of some sort and we're collecting wood? I don't have a phone and I won't be able to reach the other guys. I'm telling them I'm concerned about this, but I can't hear their responses, I keep yelling, "I Can't Hear You! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" I notice the trees, they are very special trees, one of them is quite old and blackened, they are all bare of leaves [DREAM SIGN] and have very gnarled limbs, like old oak trees.

+ Outside, daylight, nature (zoo?). I'm in the T-rex area! It's coming for me and I jump over a hedge/fence and run/slide down a hill. Have I escaped? At the bottom of the hill still in a park-like setting under tall trees so it's all in shade, (like Eucalyptus trees), there are Baby T-rexes here! Sort of half-human half-trex looking, about 2 feet tall with very sharp teeth, and they're coming for me! I run to a fence (fence is only about 3 feet high) and try to climb over but they pull me back in. I fight with them?

And the really interesting part of the night: in the morning, lying in bed, recalling the above dreams, I remember that I wanted again to try The Phase dream entry (body exit) techniques. So, like in the video I had watched last night (with the weird/cosplay face hot model babe, skip to 41:00 for the technique):
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I did the limb wiggle. I tried to "wiggle free" my dream hand and arm from my physical arm. I wasn't expecting anything because I'd been awake probably a minute already, and also had shifted a bit in bed probably. And it started to work! And suddenly, in seconds, I hear a massive rushing sound building in my ears! I knew this was REM Atonia building and I got really excited at this point. I was fully conscious and yet entering the dream state! The instructions say to try to exit (roll out, etc.) of your body as soon as something happens, so I did try, but I tried "too hard" and it was my physical body that moved and sat up in bed. Darn! But very close and very hopeful, especially considering this was the first time I'd tried The Phase DEILD dream entry in a long time.