First off, I'd like to thank Kraom for mentioning the SSILD technique to me, and whoever mentioned the underwater breath-holding technique on #DVA last night. Now, I did not wake up to journal these techniques (since I was trying to chain dreams together via the DEILD technique), but here is what I remember. I woke up 5 hours after falling asleep. Began to do the SSILD reps, and when I fell back asleep, I was in a wildly vivid dream. I knew I was there for a reason, sort of a half-lucidity. Eventually I decided it was time to take full control of the dream. The setting was in this wooded area, with log houses and dirt roads. I was flying down the dirt roads and hurling fire at the houses, so I was lucid for most of the dream, yet I never had that "Eureka" moment when I go directly from non-lucid to lucid in an instant, often waking me up. Anyway, walk into a house, and there is a dark room. I remember writing on Monday that I wanted to speak with my Anima. I yelled out "I want to talk to my Anima!" This was astonishing for 2 reasons: 1) I've never yelled out or really used my dream voice before when lucid. 2) When I did this, a wave of color swept over the room. There in front of me, stood my best female friend from high school. She started talking, but I couldn't make out the words, and the dream faded rapidly. Normally this is where I wake up. Not this time! I layer completely still and didn't open my eyes. HI started engulfing my vision, and soon enough, I was in another dream! The only thing I remember about this lucid is that I had sexy time with a smoking hot girl