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<6hr/10m/8mg (Galantamine)>
#1: Moderate lucid (Seeking The Elusive Fantasy Forest™, Night of Friday 9/8/23)
#2: Weak lucid (False Awakening and Fade, Night of Saturday 9/9/23)
#3: Weak lucid (False Awakening, Night of Wednesday 9/13/23)
#4: Moderate lucid (Silverlight Way, Night of Thursday 9/14/23)

Summary
It's 50/50. Some great lucids here, but still not the level I'm looking for. Going to tweak a couple things and run a new test.

New Test
<6hr/20m/None>
3 nights in a row: Re-establish sleep rhythm. Go to bed at 11PM and wake at 7AM.
2 nights in a row: WBTB. Go to bed at 11PM. Wake at 5AM (6hrs). No supplements. Stay awake for 20m. Return to bed.
Repeat until four WBTBs are attempted.

Went to bed around 1AM.

Pre-WBTB

Fragment
Brief impression of a Punch-Out-like video game.

WBTB
Ratio: 6hr/20m
Supplements: None.
Sleep Cycle: Semi-stable.
I got up and walked outside of for a bit, doing plenty of reality checks. I try to make the entire time outside a reality check.
I also review my dreamsign list, trying to commit the top 5 to memory.

Post-WBTB

The Vanishing Plant
I'm walking around in my living room and I do a nose RC out of habit.
To my surprise it fails and I become lucid.
I remember that narration is supposed to help stabilization so I start talking out loud.
"I'm rubbing my hands, I'm rubbing my feet, I'm walking."
I think about what I should do next and consider taking a bite out of the kitchen table, but then decide against.
It wasn't all that exciting last time I did that.
I recall that my goal was to try and observe my dreamworld, to gain an understanding and hopefully a feel for the 'dreamlike'.
I leave through the front door and go outside.
It looks near identical to reality, sunny summer day, except there is a plant nearby that is missing the bottom.
Like in a video game where a texture is missing.
I note that daytime/sunny is one of the top dream signs, and wonder if there are more 'missing textures'.
I also connect this missing texture idea to my top dreamsign which is 'video-games or inspired by a video game'.
"I'm walking around, I'm observing the dreamworld, I'm rubbing my hands," I say outloud, attempting to stabilize again.
I decide that I want to go somewhere more interesting, so I close my eyes and attempt to transform the scene into something else.
I think vaguely about changing the season into fall or winter.
I open my eyes with hope, but the scene only changes slightly. Objects have changed position, but no theme change.
I recall flying through the neighborhood some more, but my lucidity fades.
...
Later I'm in somebody else's house, lucid and looking around.
There is a woman I don't recognize, vaguely Hispanic looking.
"Is there a portal around here?" I ask.
She replies in the negative.
Despite this, I open a closet nearby and try to imagine a green swirly portal inside.
Nope, just closet.
...
I'm at a sleepover at work with my coworker JM.
Apparently we have to sleep there because there is a test we are running.
We have sleeping bags setup on the production floor.
I feel as sense of awkwardness because there are people around us working and I wonder if I should be doing the same.
Recorded on waking at 9:15AM.

Notes
I'm going to start a series of 4 tests for the 6hr/20m/none configuration with this being #1.
Initial impression is my control and dream length were lesser compared to 6hr/10m/8mgGal (Galantamine). This could be unrelated to the configs, and due to the currently only semi-stable sleep cycle.
I want to test whether galantamine is needed for more vivid dreams, and also if my 10m WBTB wake time is limiting my lucid dream experience.
I know that changing multiple variables at once isn't the best science (but I intend to test more configurations later).
General guidance for WBTB seems to recommend much longer than 10m, so I perceive a likely improvement by making it longer, hence earlier testing of this configuration.

I'm in a field and something begins to feel...dreamlike.
"This is a dream"...my awareness raises and I'm lucid. I see a large beautiful tree in the distance in the field and fly toward it. It's glowing with a slightly purple hue in the night. I raise up and begin imagining my dragon. I look down and see a red figure, a wild creature I recognize as the dragon. It makes a high pitched sound, a cross between a roar and a purr as it looks up at me. I wonder for a second if it may be hostile, and I cross my arms, causing invincibility. My worry about its hostility dissipates quickly. It begins to run across the field and I follow. It looks up again, doing it high pitched roar once more, followed by another period of running. I let it be, and head farther down the field toward a house in the distance. I notice two entry points: one to the right which appears to have many people celebrating inside and another directly in front of me, which has small door propped open. I head to the ajar door in front of me, light spilling out into the night, into what appears to be a vacant section of the home. I enter and decide to go invisible. I stick a finger up rather than snapping, yet it seems to work as a male dream character sitting in a seat simply looks right through me. I find it funny that this technique worked. I wind to the left and farther into the house. I notice two DCs up ahead and enter the room invisible. I enter the back room which is quite small and square, with wooden walls. Only one DC is inside, I turn around heading back from where I came and decide I don't need to be invisible. I raise up in the small adjoining room, toward the vaulted ceiling, lowering my invisibility. I head into another room and the two male DCs begin to notice me. It's a kitchen type area with an island counter in the middle. I see some small Halloween pumpkins on a low shelf on the far side of the room. I decide to start exploring and open cabinets as the DCs tag along. I open up on large cabinet to the right which is essentially a spice cabinet. I'm not interested. I turn around and open up some upper cabinets on the other side of the room. I find some large buns, appearing like trolly buns, in a box and remove two, beginning to eat one. It's really good! I then find some Chips Ahoy cookies as well Rice Crispies and I open the box of the latter. I begin talking to the DCs.
"What is it like to be a dream character here?" - meaning in the dream.
Boys: "Nothing special...we just do our own thing."
I begin to leave the room.
"What should I do next guys?"
I wake up.