LukeSid

Yep, I had a (one-sided) conversation with my brain and, when we make up sight cards and mantras etc surely it's our brains we're trying to impress. It was on the lines of

"I (mind) need you and you (engine) need me and I certainly can't do this task without you. I need your help in trying to lucid dream. I would appreciate it if you'd help me wake up 4.5 hours into sleep" (one of KingYoshi's golden hours) I looked at the clock and visualised 4.30 "Also, I'd like to wake up after every dream and also IN the dream...and helping me become lucid would be really appreciated."

I slept at aprox midnight and woke at 02.00...and grabbed the tail end of a dream. I know it was something *military...nautical I think, but I'm now more inclined to move when I first wake up and that may have hindered. I'm not helped by leg pains when I sleep (a circulation problem)

I got up for a while and had a weak tea then went back at 02.20 It took me while to go off again and I woke again at 04.30 (thanks brain) I moved again (leg pain) and even flicked the light on...then off quickly (more training needed there) But I grabbed some of this dream

I was apparently joking about a pregnant woman who was due to have the baby and I was saying pseudo-technical medical terms, finishing with "Cuprinol given." Someone else picked up on this and laughed "Cuprinol given?" (Cuprinol is a specialist range of wood paints????????) Sorry that dream was so un-PC ladies but I'm not controlling my dreams yet.

I did another WBTB after a small coffee and went off quite easily (unlike after drinking the tea) I think I woke again but there's nothing in my journal so I don't know what time or whether I dreamed.

So, I got my first insight into my early dream periods...something like 100 minutes into sleep...and I woke up 2 or 3 times...probably after a dream. But the dreams seemed weak and I'm not getting much in the way of vivid dreams lately. Ever onward