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January 9, 2011, Sunday,
Non-lucid Lucid

While doing my own technique to stay conscious while falling asleep, and strengthening my intention to lucid dream, it took me a long time to fall asleep. When I finally did get to sleep, I had a short lucid dream. It's my second one, two days in a row.

I was outside. I tried "deepening," or increasing my lucidity and the stability of the dream by rubbing my hands and my body. I found a big tree that I touched and started to climb a little.
Then I saw a Taco Bell in the distance and decided that Sheila was inside it. To save time, I closed my eyes and spun, to get to the entrance quickly. But I accidentally ended up somewhere else, and then I woke up.

I was unsuccessful at re-entering the lucid dream.

Notes:
Instead of closing my eyes and spinning to move closer to the Taco Bell, I should have tried focusing on a close detail of the building, like the door. This possibly would have prevented accidentally going somewhere completely different. I'm not sure why I suddenly woke up or why I couldn't re-enter the dream again (usually this isn't a problem for me). Perhaps there were too many distractions today.