I haven't had a (memorable) Lucid Dream in seriously more than 8 months or so and suddenly, 2 nights ago, I had a splendid Lucid Dream.
The reason I dreamt so memorable and vivid might have something to do with me not having smoked weed in about 3 days which is known to give you an REM-rebound. But the thing thjat got me Lucid was 1 specific reality check the evening before I went to sleep.
I was at a friend's place and I had recorded a songtune I made up earlier that day on my phone with my Synthesizer. I was very happy and euphoric and also minorly stoned. In this mood I went to the bathroom to take a leak. In there I remembered to do a Reality Check. And so I did: Trying to stick my hand through the wall, reading something looking away and reading it again. Those are my fav. 2 RC's. Well at the time they provbed that I was awake, bnut somehow I had the feeling that my head was more at the Reality Checks I was doing than normal. So it really had all my attention and I remembered that moment really well like it had made some sort of Impression. I had a positive feeling about Lucidity that night and fell asleep like that.
Sure enough I had a Lucid Dream that I remembered the next morning. Doing the pinch-your-nose-and-breathe- RC allready proved that I was dreaming, Hoovering upwards from the surface reassured me. I took a conscious effort of calming my overjoyed mind down in order not to awaken myself and when I did I flew over the dreamscape with incredible speed.
The thing that got me remembering to do an RC in the Dream was that particulair RC I did the evening before. Make a conscious effort to make sure the moment you do an RC properly penentrates your memory and sticks around; be sure your attention is with the RC for the full 100% cuz alot of us, myself included, think we are doing RCs that make a difference but the thing is we do them half aware and not consciously. If we would do that we would be much more likely to retrieve a memory to RC in the midtst of a Dream.
