bb316

I took a nap about 2 hr after I woke up for about 10 min.
Exited a dream, and then kept my eyes closed. I slipped directly into a dream. Had minor HH and then started dreaming.
So I had a DEILD.
Had another short DILD, both ended very quickly.

Very strange LD. I woke up at 645. I did my normal morning routine and then took a power nap at 810 to catch a REM cycle. I then went to class. I got back around 1115. I laid down for a nap at 1130. I woke up once or twice between 1130 and 1230. Then I had this WILD. I'll call it WILD because I don't think it was a DILD and went the way most of my WILDs go, where I just accept that I'm dreaming and then participate in the dream.
It was a zero-awareness LD. I was in a castle type of thing as if in a video game with a bunch of guys from my hall and some girls we hang with. Gravity was defective and jumping and floating around was fun. Then we went outside. I had seemed to know I was dreaming the whole time, but I did no RC's, no stabilization and did not change the plot of the dream at all. When we got outside we had to fight a buch of strange super heroes that had been explained earlier in the dream. I recognized them, but they were not real superheroes. I was fighting, but most of the group was afraid to come help me. I went back and yelled at them that they were all dreaming. A few of them picked it up and began to help me fight.

I'm witty right?
Strange how my REM worked last night. Got to bed around midnight and woke up at 4 am. I drank a bottle of water before bed, which sometimes isn't enough to get me up before my alarm. Not sure why 4 am... Usually I'm on 1.5 hour intervals. Who cares though? I got lucid.
I stayed up for 75 minutes, until 5:15 working on my new LD guide :http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...technique.html
I went to bed using the mantra, "I notice details and become aware"
I had one dream and was not lucid and when I went into the next one I knew I was dreaming. I used no RC, but I also did not exercise great control over my dream. It just seemed natural. I noticed the brick in my room had grains. I was surprised to see such great detail in a dream. I was able to leave my room and change the scene a little bit and encounter my girlfriend by deciding where she would show up. It was good. I still feel I wasn't completely aware though, I used an RC and it worked, but I was not very sharp.. hard to explain

Yeah. So Its been over two weeks since my last LD, hopefully it will be a dry spell if I can manage to LD more frequently.
Today I woke at 6:45 - very slowly. I was so groggy. I worked out, had breakfast, showered and went to two classes. I got back to my room and took a nap. I fell asleep quickly. Its been a long week. I have been using the mantra 'I notice details and become aware' before I fall asleep and sporadically throughout the day. When I use it sporadically, I practice noticing details in my environment.
So how'd I get lucid? Well, as I was falling asleep I pretended to become lucid in the short daydreams I experienced before bed. I asked where one of my friends where he was going next year and he said, "Toyota." I then thought, Toyota is not a place, and pretended to become lucid. Then, as I fell deeper asleep I had some H.H., I offended a dog somehow and it Put its mouth over my bent knee and began to bite it. This got me aware and woke up my mind as I fell asleep. I then decided to wait for a dream scene to begin.
I could feel my consciousness floating thru my mind and thinking how relaxing it was. When the dream scene formed, I was not completely in control of my actions. I was also not completely aware. I was lucid, but not aware, just kind of going thru the motions. I was going to kiss this girl in my dream. I did an RC to check that I was dreaming, as to not screw up my normal life if I wasn't dreaming. Everything faded after that, or I simply do not remember.
I am going to try to focus more on control than doing things in my dreams.
Thanks for reading
~ BB316

I got to bed last night around 1:30am. I woke up at 6:07 after a dream and decided to do a quick WBTB. I only got out of bed, stretched and then quickly hopped back. I started a mantra. I really tried to believe this mantra and put all my autosuggestive energy into making it true to my brain. I repeated, "I notice details in my dream/environment and become lucid." I obsessively was repeating this in my mind.
The interesting part is that when I was dreaming the thought of lucidity and a dream sign were present. Playing volleyball was somehow a dream sign in the dream and I was talking about it with my room mate. I said that I should have gotten the dream sign, but I didn't. Not really sure how I didn't get lucid. Oh well.
I find it fascinating that I woke up just before a new sleep cycle and could only stay up for 5 minutes and still have lucidity permeate my dream logic.
I think the takeaway is that a mantra must be practiced obsessively and with a burning intent to make it true. This may sound extreme, because it is.

So I woke up around 5:50 am this morning after going to bed around midnight. I worked out, ate breakfast and went to class. I decided to skip chem (it was only a review for homework I haven't started) and decided to nap. I hoped I would catch my REM cycle and I did.
I laid down for a nap at 9:35. I did some relaxation and breathing exercises and began to fall asleep. I lost focus and found myself being forced back to awareness in my relaxed state by hearing the sound of loud snoring/coughing coming from me. This was not me, however, I was experiencing some HH noises. They were very loud. After that, I rolled onto my side and fell asleep. I repeated to myself,"I'm dreaming", which didn't last long. I fell asleep and found myself in a dream. The details before lucidity are hazy.
I realized I was dreaming by noticing something off in my environment. Everything seemed so REAL, I was thoroughly convinced I was in reality even though I had noticed something was wrong with the reality I was experiencing. I decided to do an RC and found I was dreaming. I decided to try to solve my Rubik's cube and the dream faded after about another minute (dream time).

So I repeated my WBTB/mantra method. I woke up around 4 am and went back to sleep at 510. Before I went to bed, I remember being doubtful I would LD two nights in a row. I reassured myself I would and built up some expectations and excitement. It seems being expectant and excited is key to success.
I had a full dream, but can't remember it, ugh. I think I might have been partially lucid. Slightly remember being mad I was losing the dream. Then I had a FA and caught it when I noticed that when i reached under my pillow with both hands, both of my hands grabbed a phone. I thought, 'I only have one phone!' and became lucid.
The dream quickly faded as I tried to change the scenery.
I entered a new dream
I employed a new mantra method i read on a post yesterday to repeatedly write a mantra. Unsure if this worked or if it was my WBTB technique, but I had an LD!
Going to try a shorter waking time in my WBTB tonight.
I drank about 1.5+ bottles of water before bed. It was too much. (I drink water before bed to wake up in the middle of the night to use the restroom so I can wake without an alarm)

I have been practicing a mix between ADA and SAT throughout the day, increasing my general awareness. I did a WBTB, taking a short nap around 10-11pm, and then went to sleep at about 12:30am. As i fell asleep i used the mantra,"I am constantly aware of my surroundings."
I caught a false awakening. It seems lucky to me. I normally use the nose plug RC but I also remember inspecting my phone and watch. I was unsure I was dreaming at first, i wasn't very lucid, but a routine RC caught it.
I lost the dream due to excitement.
After I had ANOTHER false awakening, that's right back to back FA's. In the FA I was writing in my DJ, I keep a pocket book beneath my pillow.

I will be using my DJ here to explain how i induced lucidity on lucid dreams I have. Sorry, but my dream content is personal.
Combo of WTBT/MILD/DILD
I went to sleep after staying up for about 80 minutes from waking up in the middle of the night to use the restroom. I did homework and some reading. I then used a mantra as I fell asleep.
When in my dream I realized I was dreaming by noticing something in the scenery was off. Can't remember what it was.