peacock486

non-dream dream lucid

I was looking forward to this morning. Really was.
Made an improved alarm clock, with louder volume, and a reality check reminder (with 10 sound clips firing randomly every 30 minutes).

Even cleaned off my bed and tried laying on my back for an SSILD.
And that's when things started to go bad.
At first, my bed wasn't that clean even after I'd wiped it off, so I still felt like I had dirt on me.

And then I had an upset stomach, so it was very hard to concentrate on anything.
So I decided to go to sleep.


So I end up waking up like 2 hours into the 4 hour clock, and everyone else in the house is starting to wake up in ernest so there's loads of sounds.
Ended up staying up for 30 minutes or so, so this should be an ideal WBTB.
Since it's waaay too late for FILD, I try SSILD again.
It's actually pretty interesting, I actually get to the point where my hands and feet feel really heavy and almost numb. But that's as far as I get.
Once again, I don't feel comfortable enough. My pillow is too tall so my neck hurts and I'm getting a headache.

So I decide to get up and switch sides, sleeping on the other side of the bed. This is much better and I'm able to get a bit farther into SSILD before the discomfort rears its ugly self.

Eventually I turn myself over and sleep on my front side, and it has quite an improvement in that I'm actually able to go to sleep. It's almost impossible to concentrate on SSILD cycles though. I remember at one point I actually get to the point where bits of dreams start to form.

I remember thinking to myself, "I want to see a giant bird! ". Almost immediately I'm greeted with an image of something that looks like a cross between a parrot and a hornbill. I never actually saw how big it was but I assume it was larger than the bushes it was around.

Similar experiences permeated the next 15 or so minutes.
At the end I just decided to give up and fall asleep normally.

Ended up having a few dreams that I can't recall, and one that I can recall in some detail.

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The visit from OTG
Fragmented: no
Lucid: no
TGMG: no
Recall rating: 5

So I'm looking into the jeep, and everything's all poppy green. The windows are all mossed over.
Next thing I know Overthegun comes in the door. I'm thinking "This is really weird".

He ends up going into the bedroom and laying down on my bed where my mom is. I go into the bedroom, laying on the pile of clothing opposite the bed, and watch. I'm thinking to myself "What the actual fuck is going on here".

End up running into the living room, where I look on my computer, where the WJR jingle is loaded up. I think "Right, this would be interesting to show to OTG since he's british" .

That's when I wake up, laying there in my bed. It's around 1400 again. I'm tired, so I end up drifting in and out of sleep for the next 30 or so minutes, but never deep enough to dream, or even forget the dream entirely.

Once I get up, I look at my laptop, JUST as the countdown clock is hitting zero. Once it does, nothing happens. No sound. "Great, my alarm clock doesn't work at all". Neither did the reality check reminder. Might have to remake them in C or something.

Once I finally got to the point where I was willing to make a DJ entry I'd considered the dream too messed up to enter. This is the first time DJing it in full.

Dream recall chart for last 5 or so days: