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COMMENTARY NON-LUCID DREAM LUCID DREAM

Asleep: 12:00
WBTB: 4:30, 6:30
Awake: 8:00
Tech: Autosuggestion, WBTB + MILD, CAN-WILD
Dreams: 1 + 1 fragment
Lucids: 1

1. I wake up to use restroom and lay down. I do MILD and visualize two of my recent lucid dreams. I also do several nose-plug RC's and tell myself I will nose-plug RC when I am dreaming. I don't even notice falling asleep. One minute I'm laying there doing this, the next minute I'm doing a nose-plug RC and I can breathe through my nose. Suddenly I realize I can breathe through my plug-nosed and I must be dreaming. I get out of bed and walk over to T's side. I wake her up and say "this is a lucid dream T". She seems mildly curious. I open the bedroom door and our cats are waiting there as usual. I'm careful not to let them in. I walk in the hallway. It's dark again and I decide to try the light switch. Again, it doesn't work. I remember reading someone's DJ on DV where they said a "magic spell" to increase the light in a room. The second I thought that, the light increased a little (but it didn't seem like a light bulb had turned on). T comes out and asks me what's so cool about lucid dreams. Then I looked over and saw our front door. I walked outside. It was totally green with ivy around us; there were no other houses or streets. At this point I think I lost lucidity and the scene shifts. I'm standing on the front porch of a house. A guy walks up asking if I want to be his golf partner? He usually plays tennis but his buddy isn't here. Suddenly his friend walks up. They both hand me business cards. They work at Ameriflight, which is an aviation company that I was looking at working for when I was still planning on going into aviaiton. Then, my manager at work walks out the front door? The next thing I remember is lying in bed awake.

2. I am telling Taylor about the lucid dream I just had. Her dad is there, although he didn't look like himself. There was another guy and girl present in the scene who had apparently just started dating.

3. Fragment - I'm in a banquet hall for some celebration. One of my co-workers is there. I walk up to her and we sit together and talk. I drop this drink and walk out to find a bathroom. I realize we're in a hotel. For some reason, this hotel has a live-animal exhibit. There are a bunch of birds in these relatively tiny cages on the wall. There's also a huge bearded dragon in one cage. I walk over to the bathroom and some guy comes up to me. He asks if I can stay here and watch his bag. He will save some money for me. I ask how long. He says 12 minutes. I say that's too long.

Notes - I'm very satisfied with last night. First, I had a lucid dream using pretty much MILD (although maybe a slight variation on it). But secondly, I set an auto-snooze alarm for 4:30 and then for every 15 minutes from 7:00-8:00. At least 2 times, I woke up and remained completely still after the alarm. In one case, I truly felt like I might have been able to enter a dream immediately (like I did yesterday), but I was in such an awkward position. I started hearing the rushing sounds and feeling that "deepening" physical sensation that I felt yesterday, but I started sliding off the pillow and therefore had trouble breathing enough where I had to change position. The other time, I remained still and heard the rushing sounds but it didn't go anywhere. Maybe I was too awake, or woke up in NREM, or something else. But it's still training me to wake up to that alarm and stay completely still which is good. I know one of those times will also lead to a lucid which is encouraging.