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3-11-23 (walked again 50 mins, B6 and zinc) WBTB Fail so disappointing.

D#1 4:22AM
I might have had a heart attack - I had a dream I was in the hospital. I was hooked up to some type of machine that had a monitor on it that I could see. There was a graph on the monitor and there was a line diagram which started at a higher point at first, but then went down to a Level No 8 and then up to a point No 12 then kept going back up. I had some wires which were connected to the machine and that apparently was monitoring my heart. During the time I was there, a nurse came in and opened the window. The curtains blew in a bit with the breeze but so did the snow. I must have been naked though I don’t recall my body at all, but I felt the individual snowflakes one by one as they flew in through the window and landed on my body. They felt wonderful. As if each one kissed me as it gently landed and then melted on my skin. I had also been asleep in the dream for a while, for a long while. I think there was another person in the bed next to me. When they were getting me ready to pack up and go, I remembered talking to a nurse and she said she thinks that I might have had a heart attack. As I was being released I was packing up some of my items, which some were scattered all around the floor and into another room as well. But I remember these socks. The socks were the Best Socks Ever. hahaha Literally, I felt incredible in these socks. They were high socks that went up and just over my knee caps, I had leggings on and I felt really good in them. They seemed to be two tones darker with lighter edges at the top toe and heel. Can’t recall exact colors. I was with two other FDC when I was getting packed up to leave. One was in the room with me and the other had gone out to the car. I heard a honk from outside which apparently was from someone who wanted the parking space of the car I was going to leave from. But I kept finding items to pack and was a bit slow at leaving. But once we left we were in the car and we were talking about who was going to drive. It felt like a long drive ahead and I was the one who wanted to drive first. Just before I left to head out to the car, I do remember the nurses all thanked me, but then I came back with a much more appreciated feeling and thanked them; I should have been the one to thanking them, they not needed to thank me. There may have been a cat in the dream. Back in the back of my mind or in the back of my thoughts, it seems vague, but this seemed like a repeat experience of another time I had been in the hospital for the same thing. A long time ago.

D#2 4:30
I was in some room and there was a kid hiding between two larger box type units. There was a space in between them that he just fit in. Maybe he was hiding. He was getting into trouble because he had this huge sandwich. He was acting like he wasn’t supposed to have it. And he ended up throwing it cuz he got mad into the room towards where I was. And then I ended up having to pick it all up. Each piece and the sloppy gooey meat, lettuce and bread pieces. I was picking it up off the floor and putting it onto a table top.

D#3 4:30
UPS Driver - We were in the back of a store front area, like in alley ways. We were all driving different directions. I was in a larger vehicle too but not driving. There were several trucks and we all seemed to be driving into the direction the others wanted to go. Trucks were backing up letting others go, and maybe even a three point turn to go the other way. So it felt like we were dodging each other trying not to hit each other to get out of the alley area.

D#4 6:56
I was in another hospital and I wanted to walk through all the corridors there. I didn’t want to visit anyone nor was I a patient in this dream. I just wanted to walk through the corridors and hallways throughout the building. I had gone to an area where I thought I’d be able to walk through, but there was a door that said do not enter and a nurse was there. I wanted to go through but she said it was a restricted area and I wasn’t allowed in. But it felt like to me that was the area where intensive care people where staying and I thought I could still walk through even though I wasn't visiting anyone. She told me I had to go out the other way, and she said I needed to take a turn to the right. I started in one direction as there were multiple hallways there and she said, no, go further to the right, well it turned out to be the most left hallway and that had a door with an Exit sign. I didn’t want to leave, (the rights and lefts were mixed up even in my dream) Anyhow, as I was walking a bit further, I came to a table area where these two girls were set up selling a basket of candy for $20. There was a man in front of me ordering one. I remember seeing tootsie rolls and other wrapped candy, but I also saw the other girl who pushed out some cookies from this silicon mold looking thing. All the cookies came out unbroken and I wondered how that was possible. They shout have been broken in the way they were being pushed out and released from that mold. Anyhow I didn’t buy one.

D#5 7:00am
I had a cup of coffee in my hand and a scroungy looking guy came up to me asking what was inside my mug and sniffed it at the same time. He was a dirty looking guy with dirty clothes, a large dirty jacket that looked old and ragged. I said i was drinking coffee. He said he was wishing for and looking for a place where he could sit down and eat or go to the bathroom. A bit later, we had walked down to an area where there was another MDC and he was going to do something for this guy. But he said oh my ankle has a pimple on it and it had started to pop. The other man disappeared from the dream at this point and I saw this other man's ankle. It was pretty swollen and as the puss started coming out it came out like a thin snake. It just kept oozing out. It was kind of gross, but then I turned to walk away and thought I have a friend who is a nurse if you need her, but then we just assumed once the puss was out his ankle would then be ok.

D#6 7:00am
Adam had some type of jacket on, it seemed colored in parts, but on the arm were two cuffs. These devices were some type of electronic device blockers that blocked any type of other technology. And these guys were approaching us thinking that they would be able to tap into our electronic equipment. Adams all nope you can’t do that with us; he said he’s got these high end technology blockers on and nothing could get through to break in. Then all the sudden they were super friendly and nice to us. They had some type of equipment themselves. It was wooden and unfolded open. It seemed old. Something from long ago. They bought it to repair it and then use it for what I don’t know. Adam knew exactly what it was and knew how to repair it and went right ahead and did so. One part was wrong and needed to be fixed so he made a couple of adjustments (I remember a no. 3) then gave it back to them, and they seemed really happy.

DF#7 There was a round table set up and had something to do with art.

DF#8 We were leaving this house and there was a door that slid sideways to open and close it and when it was closed it would keep the dog from getting out but the cat was able to squeeze through and come out underneath the gap.


WBTB Fail = 2
6 Dreams = 6
2 Dream Frags = 1

Total = 9 points

Pre WBTB - Winter Neighborhood

There is some muggy jungle scene but I can't recall much else.

I'm at a neighborhood street in the winter time. It reminds me of one I used to run as part of a route in college. Unlike how I remember, there are homeless people struggling to stay warm all across the street. The group I'm with don't have anything to give them so we feel bad.

Post WBTB - Zoomin' Through Space and Fun at the Sand Shrine

I take the Yuschak primary trigger supplement combo and get back to bed within about 10 minutes after reviewing WILD entry techniques. I lay down for sometime and wait for the vibrations. They eventually come and are fairly intense. I feel two waves of them, but no images ever form. I eventually slip off into normal sleep.

I'm back at the same neighborhood but this time it is a warm summer scene with a thriving community. I'm living with some friends of S and I. Three couples. SP is sort of the mom of the group and we're following her. We are coming home from driving somewhere and get into the house. The inside reminds me of my Grandma M's house. Specifically the bar we sit down at is reminiscent. We start unloading bags and everybody gets something. I get a giant jelly candy brick. I get up to look around the house and use the bathroom. SP or one of the other girls nearly walks in on me while I'm using the toilet, but luckily I'm standing and facing away from the door. When I go back into the hallway, I do a nose reality check out of habit. I'm lucid now.

Since a house isn't the most exciting place in the world, I decide to go outside. I leave the front door and the green grass is super vivid. I decide I should stabilize, so I rub my barefeet on the grass and the dirt. I lick the dirt for good measure and rub my hands. I do a few more nose RCs just in case. Well, if that check failed I would have looked really stupid. Oh well. Good thing I can breathe through my nose. I decided I want to fly, so I took off superman style. I hit a set of tree branches above me like a total chump immediately but it didn't hurt too bad.


Flyin' high. Made with a combination of Bing and Nightcafe image generator AIs.

I rose up into the sky and enjoyed the view of the neighborhood. I wanted to go explore more, but the world started to zoom out. Oh shit. It feels like I'm moving super fast. The world zooms out so far that I'm now in space looking at Earth. I think about the Outer Wilds Travelers' Theme song and laugh while saying the first few notes of acoustic guitar out loud. Naturally, the song starts to play. Zooming through space with music.

Outer Wilds Travelers' Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR_wIb_n4ZU


The vacuum of space. Made with Nightcafe AI.

Into the universe I say "So, where are we goin'?" like Pippen at the council of Elrond from Lord of the Rings.

As if in answer, a pale blue cloudy planet comes into view on the space horizon. I remark that this definitely isn't earth. It doesn't have any green on it. At this point I'm just super happy I have been lucid this long. As I'm sent closer to the planet I confirm it isn't Earth. This is a desert planet.

My feet lithely (not a hint of my waking knee pain) land at the top of a shrine in a desert. There is a book with golden pages atop a pedestal. I see an attractive purple haired woman across the way near the top of the stairs leading down to the sand. She's wearing skimpy clothes, black leather with her chest showing. Her legwear isn't covering much either. No complaints. I get the sense that she is an experienced traveler, or she can guide me in some way.

"Woah! This place is so vivid!" I say.

"Yeah, it's pretty much always like that," she replies over the desert wind.

I start to follow her down the stairs and then try to pull her closer to me. She doesn't seem into it so I back off. We continue walking down the shrine area. I look at her clothes again.

Spoiler for Spicy Content:

"Soooo are you into bondage or something?" I ask.

"Well...yeah" she replies while turning a bit red.

I pin her to one of the nearby walls and start to make out with her. I slowly slip my finger behind her and down her lower back...and further.

"FUCK! I forgot how amazing this feels!" she says.


The purple-haired guide. Made with Nightcafe AI.

The dream gets unstable after that and I go into a false awakening. My body feels heavy. I try to rollover but still feel something like sleep paralysis. I have a few more false awakenings, but I eventually decide I really want to write down dreams, so I wiggle my toes and rollover. I wake up for real this time.

Supplements: Yuschak Primary Trigger Combination (3rd Attempt)
Galantamine: 8mg
Choline Bitartrate: 250mg

Default = Commentary
Blue = Dream
Dark Orange = Lucid

I'm back at nightly from the looks of it. Sweet timing.

Someone on the discord server suggested I turned The Ink Cult (A modding community I built for a game) into an open source Unity Project. From this project we rebuilt the entire game from scratch. However, Everyone was strangely egotistical and self centered along the way, Not helping the team which was exactly what led to the failure of the original devs. Finally we were done. Some guy was porting detailed textures to the levels. That’s when someone else joined. Who was it? Death. From Puss in Boots. He walked over to the texturing guy (who was personified in the unity project) and sucked his soul out like a dementor. Dude collapsed. He looked at everyone else and they ran for it. Only me and a couple other people stayed. Death said that the Cult had a curse that would kill us all one by one. While everyone else panicked (another was killed in the process) I decided to stay calm and wise. I went down and all the bathroom doors were locked and it was dark out. Spending a bit of time, I went back to Unity and summoned Death. Had a calm talk with him about the afterlife and honestly he was chill and respectful. He was talking while killing one of the devs. My goal was to convince him not to kill me, but I was left ambiguous to whether it worked. With everything happening I couldn’t help but RC. What did I find? Completely normal hands. But, I was still convinced. I went and tried fusing into the wall to teleport, but that didn’t work. So I tried my classic PR method: “Jolt Energy Bars”. I asked a parent if they had any and they said yes. I was happy to hear that but they stalled giving it to me for conversation. In that time, I woke up.

Some guy was luring people to a parking garage where he played music so loud you could hear it from practically anywhere. I made a plan with a nearby bus to scare him with its horn. It worked. I said, "Get jumpscared, idiot". Then he was like, "Someone must have called human resources in response to the music"

Me:You're MAD about that?!

The bus driver after catching up with us: Hey it's that you? Again?

Me: Ooooh, you're a REPEAT OFFENDER?

After I said that he bolted to his car. I chased him while repeating what I just said when he closes his door. He was the saddest man I'd ever seen.

Me: alright I'm done. I'll leave you alone if you leave me alone.
Then a squirrel in a nearby tree jumped at me but I grabbed it's head and was about to spike it but then I woke up because I heard a terrifying sound.

Is this a fragment? +1?

One of my friends turned into Kevin heart, then got into gambling. He made so much money that he gave me 30 k! I think all I was concerned with though was air frying some chicken. The air fryer was black, but it didn't look like the one that I have. It had two knobs on the side of it for heat and duration.
I remember not recognizing it and asking my mom if she bought a new air fryer. We were in a new apartment. It had an elevator that took you up to the fourth floor, but for some reason you had to walk the rest of the way. One time, one of my friends was chasing me upstairs for fun, then he turned into a titan from destiny and started shouting my Miranda rights. Exotic engrams were coming up through the floor as I ran.

+.5 Non Lucid Fragment

I was at my childhood home, though the arrangement of the house and general decor felt slightly off. I was being yelled at by my grandmother to clean out the fridge which was full of moldy food. The dream went on for awhile with some awkward faffing about, but I can't recall a play-by-play of events.

...

The dream transitions to a seperate scene where I am riding my bike on the bike trail near my old high school. I am riding my bike carrying two lunchboxes and open both of them to find moldy food inside. When I go to empty them out, simply throwing the moldy food (but no packaging or plastic) by the side of the trail thinking some animal might be happy to find it, I get stung on my hand by something sharp in one of the moldy food items. This transitions into a bog standard dream of body horror as my finger turns red, then black and starts to warp in distusting ways.

...

There may have been another scene of my mother and I visiting a convenience store and finding a freezer isle full of black moldy pizzas.

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Seperate dream of a stock dream plot I've been trying to catch (become lucid in). Back in high school, and theres some project or assignment that I need to turn in. This seems to be playing off a specific event.

I cannot remember which teacher or class, but this was an actual IWL incident. I had a teacher who assigned us a lengthy essay in the first day of class. He mentioned it briefly during the first-day syllabus and never again ever that. He never formally passed out any assignment sheet that described in detail the assignment or even mentioned exactly when it was due. Then halfway through the school year one day he says "turn in your massive essay thats like 25% of your grade" only like one tryhard student had actually done the essay. Said teacher went on a half hour tyrade about how lazy we were and how this was a learning experience blah blah. Then the next day came to his senses and decided to just restructure the whole class otherwise everyone would fail out of it.

This specific circumstance always seems to be the subject of dreams though. Only there is always an unconscious knowledge that I do know about the project but I was too apathetic to do it or specifically didn't want to do it out of rebellion. I think this might be a low level of lucidity making its way into the dream, but I'm not sure. I don't remember the specific permutation of this dream that I had (which class it was or which classroom in my highschool it took place in.

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Had another dream about riding my bike with my old Taekwondo instructor. I remember the scene taking place near my old junior high school, and then I taught class there.

NLD x3

Jamie 1

I;'m sitting with my family at a bar or a house not sure. Jamie is sitting at the table. We don't talk but the vibe is not uncomfortable at all. There's a TV screen that says "Karaoke night." or something. I'm debating if I want to sing anything to myself. Metal songs? or something softer like REO Speedwagon? or a bunch of songs where I replace the word "Baby," with ,"Jamie," in the lyrics to either annoy (or charm) Jamie... Before I decide, I wake up.


Jamie 2

Last night: In a dream with a bunch of white walls, long hallways. It's both an inside an outside area... dream logic. I see Jamie in a hallway. There are other people around but I say something heartfelt to her, I forget what exactly. For a fraction of a second she lights up and almost caves,, with a slight laugh. She looks like she is about to hug me. Then her face goes blank and she walks away fast. I walk for seemingly hours through this place looking for her again... but I don't find her.

Various work related dreams...

I'm in darkness when I begin to sense myself becoming aware. I'm beginning to enter a dream. I start feeling a slight dropping sensation in my stomach, which my subconsciousness instantly connects to what else than - falling. Oh man... here we go. The falling sensation grows greater and I begin to see faint clouds and an ocean floor through the black mist thats covering everything. Oh fffuuuu- I begin to prepare myself with heavy breaths, the lucid would begin from the sky. I pull my hands forward into a flying position, but then everything becomes near psychedelic, wobbly and extremely unstable. I can feel myself flying but I can barely see anything and my other hand is stretching 30 meters forward. Snap. I'm suddenly in a small orange-greenish hostel-looking room. The dream has almost completely finished forming, now I just need to form myself into the room. I pinch my nose and breath. "Okay I'm here! I'm here now, focus! Stabilize" I say out loud trying to command myself to not slip from the moment. I begin rubbing my hands together fiercely while repeating "Here now!" I switch to rubbing the walls. I'm beginning to become grounded in the room with a proper physical body. Finally, this time it should be better. I finish the stabilization and open the door leading out of the room.

I enter a corridor with a red carpet. There are rows of doors on each side. Time to do stuff. I re-try my failed attempt from the previous competition and command: "Sensei!" to appear. One of the doors opens from the left side of the corridor. A man peeks out, but quickly goes back inside after taking a look at me. Knowing what Sensei looks like from his Discord avatar I realize it wasn't him. Alright, into the next task. I push my hand forward like a fire-bender, and without any effort a stream of fire launches from my open palm going atleast 8 meters. Hah! Easy as ever! I take foot and walk the corridor until I get to a small reception lounge. There's a stool in the middle of the lounge, perfectly out of place for more dream control practice and catching up in points. I point my right hand towards the stool like a mystic and it begins to levitate. I see a fire extinguisher on the wall. I let go of the stool and pick the red syringe of the wall with telekinesis, throwing it to the other side of the corridor where I came from. The extinguisher explodes and begins whirling wildly all around the place. I realize I could try one more thing. I stand still and let the metal tube hit me square in the face and it bounces off. Hah, that's what I thought. I then head to a small staircase leading outside.

I get outside and realize I'm at the front-yard of a hostel where I used to work as a trainee for five months back in college. Can't believe I missed it from all the fun I was having, must have been absolutely too focused on the tasks. The ground is all green and plants are spurting out of it and there seems to be what looks like a small, mold-ridden and abandoned greenhouse on the corner of the main building. I re-focus on the tasks, and this time into my main task; my last Three Step Task. I turn around to face the other way towards the street and say: "Door." I turn back, and there's a white-greyish door sticking out of the ground in the middle of the yard. Yes! But, as most of the time doing this, the door begins to fall backwards (as doors are not meant to be standing without a wall around it. Maybe I should come up with a new way to teleport in the future.) I grab the door and shove it back into the ground with force. The door remains slightly tilted backwards, but I ignore it and begin forming a "story" in my head to help creating another scenery behind the door. I think that...Sensei must be behind the door... as a medieval man... in a... MEDIEVAL CASTLE! A sense of continuity fills the moment and I open the door into a brick-laden hallway of a castle. I enter, but as soon as I do everything begins to unfocus.

The normal front yard of the hostel, with the tele-door

I was with a group of friends. We were having fun and it was great. Played this word game that was like Wordle mixed with some letter game. Well, this game gave me inspiration to look at DALLE 2. I wanted that lake SCP. SCP-1630 I’m pretty sure (That SCP in reality is a group of bean people) It had a great result though. Then I just wrote “SCP” in the AI art prompt and without pressing anything, It started generating a bunch of disturbing images of people getting killed and screaming, with distorted music playing.

My friend passed it off as normal and this got me insta-lucid. I originally was gonna gtfo cause of how messed up that art was but I remembered my PR and tried teleporting to it. I failed, and instead made it to this big mansion. Instead of using doors, I traveled by fusing into walls. Went out of bounds, like a game. I found two twins. Both of them looked mentally disabled but they were really built up. I tried asking one of the twins for directions, but then I woke up.

3-10-23 (Exercised the missing link? I’ve been slacking lately - I walked for 30 + minutes last night and listened to yoga nidra and took B6 and Zinc seems like a lot easier recall this morning as I didn’t make any notes or record anything in bed after natural awakenings) WBTB - Fail

I'm calling all these fragments, because I know there was much more to each of these.

#1 - Sleeping with a bird; it might have been some type of parrot. The cutest little thing all snuggled under the covers with me. It had originally been in a cage next to me I think -Then Donna came into the room and walked across maybe to a bathroom then came back to the bed and stood at the base of the bed. Seems to say something about the bird, then before she leaves she starts doing jumping jacks with a yellow sweater. There was a chandelier or ceiling fan, right above her and I had this thought I wondered if her hands would hit the dangling parts as she did her jumping jacks.

#2 - The FDC who had this long knitted garment that she somehow managed to intermingle with and slip into over and or under her arms and shoulders, and wrap it around her in such a way that it became a bikini top? Then she managed to slip her arms out of it in such another weird way which made absolutely no sense. Did I have the thought I wanted one? HUmmmm it seemed like way too much bulk for a bikini top.

#3 - The quail (bird) which was in the water. Someone tried to save it by pulling it up and out of the water by its wing. The string or whatever they used ended up cutting the wing off at the first wing joint, when trying to pull it out. (POS from the man who hatched a quail egg from the store video I watched)

#4 - LisaB married to a French Man - she and I were walking all over this square piece of land not sure what we were doing. But at one point, I was emptying some garbage from a can, I had bagged it up in a plastic bag with a twisty tie before the end she said something to me like, yeah that’s what it’s like being married to a French Man. ?

#5 - The two Parties: Food was being picked up, cleaned up: lots of food from what seemed like a work potluck party…I needed to put back some food that got left out during pick up, no room in one fridge, The fridge has also been moved in such a way that the door wouldn’t fully open, it had been pushed up against a wall about a foot or so away and the door wouldn’t open fully. I had to go to another part of the building; there was another party potluck going on; so much food everywhere all laying out on several tables. Seemed to look mostly like sweets. I seem to recall colors like colored icings. Even in the first part of the dream, Lisa (LisaB again, but I think this is a different dream than above) was eating a cup full of whipped cream. That's what it looked like anyhow.

#6 - Two kinds of cookies I brought to share and I think I ate two before putting them on the table; but don’t remember actually tasting or chewing or swallowing. Someone else approached me and she wanted some, but I didn’t give her any. I had put the packages down on a table then walked away not noticing if she got into them after I left or not.

#7 - Oh the lady I was sitting next to, we were arriving at her apartment complex. There was a nursing home next to these apartments. I was thinking She must have lived in the apartments next to the nursing home. Before this there was something else about another FDC we were looking at houses to buy? So Vague

#8 - The little girl, a toddler, I was with and was only supposed to have her for less than an hour longer, (I remember looking at a clock with arms, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a clock in my dreams before; but I didn’t think to look at it again as an attempt for a reality check) but I wanted to drop her off at a daycare place and not take her with me to wherever I was going.

#9 - There was something else, a dream with a message something to eat or not eat. It seemed white; not sure if it was flour or if it was white energy light? Or I’m making this up. Don’t know….


WBTB Fail = 2
9 Dream Fragments - 4.5 points

Total 6.5

Earthbending Teeth
Toph and Iroh from Avatar the Last Airbender are fighting. Toph is on the offensive and Iroh is evading everything. Toph realizes that teeth would fall under her earthbending's jurisdiction, so she starts to bend Iroh's teeth. Toph wreaks havoc on Iroh's mouth.

Wall Kicks Will Work
There is a shrine in a gloomy place. It is similar to the area after falling down the tree in Zelda: Majora's Mask. The shrine represents a somber memory. I can recall dream-me thinking about how I had created it in other places before and that others wouldn't recognize it. Personal memory, but I don't know what it means. It was some arrangement of a small tree and a big pink flower.

There is a dead end after the shrine, with a large closed door. The door is also in the Zelda style (where pressing 'A' would typically raise the door up and away so the player can enter). 'A' isn't working. I think to try wall-kicks from Mario 64. It works. I go higher and higher up and away. I land on platform jutting off of the wall opposite the shrine and find a locked door. Luckily I have one key left. I press 'A' to open the door, and it rises to let me enter as expected.

Inside, there is an expanse of blue beams sprawling out into the darkness. There are skultulas (spider monsters from the Zelda series) dotted throughout the room's ceiling. The monsters are on webs at different heights. I explore a little bit, but then I'm ambushed. A large skultula, the boss, attacks. I dispatch it with ease using a bow and arrow and start looking for my prize. Down a ladder there is a landing. Still in the rafters above, not down on the floor below where the shrine is.

I find a sarcophagus. The lid on it is very heavy but I remove it. There is a mummy inside. This is apparently my prize. I start thinking through the logistics of having a mummy in the house. And how creepy that would be...what if it wakes up and wanders the house at night?


Art made by Nightcafe AI.

both dreams took place in the same house-maze. this is a new maze i dont think ive seen before.

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I am looking to a story below over a small balcony and see Y standing in an unfurnished area. It is much darker down there so I cant make out too many details, he appears faceless. He motions for me to follow him and although i am afraid, i find myself following him against my will. he walks backwards while leading me through a dark, empty, windowless hall. I notice that he is actually faceless. It gets darker and eventually I lose him, but I keep walking forward. now it gets slightly brighter, just enough for me to see him sitting on a long couch facing forward. I sit next to him and give him a hug.

.......

I am getting checked into an insane asylum prison. the head nurse says that at least i am "well formed" and not like the others.

I only remembered one fragment. In it, my brother suggested that we both hang out with a friend of his (who I haven't met IRL). That's it. So mundane. Dx

1 fragment = 0.5 points

Total = 53 + 0.5 = 53.5

I'm going to be getting better sleep starting now! The results will be fantastic, I can feel it

Pretty mid recall compared to last night. 2 Dreams.

Dream 1: It was my birthday. Cracker Island on CD and Vinyl arrived. I for some reason started packing up all my things and went to a bus. I waited as the bus driver played Gorillaz. I waited for like 10 minutes before we stopped back at my house and I woke up.

Dream 2: I was basically playing Boneworks 2. It had the map layouts of some Mario game. I got to a room where I had to time pressing 2 buttons on both sides of the room before the door closed in. I failed, but I didn’t reset. I was stuck in this locked room. I saved and woke up.

Adding this to my DJ as a reference. Found it in a 2016 post in the attaining lucidity section. Below is from FryingMan. Thanks for putting this info out there FryingMan! I've been trying to connect meditation to my lucid dreaming practice and this helped me understand a bit more:

I think the best meditation for lucid dreaming is maintaining mindfulness during everyday, complex waking life experiences. In dreams, we do not sit or lie quietly in a room with only our thoughts for company. We are usually active in the dream world, interacting with objects and beings, noticing things moving into and out of our visual field, feeling emotions and reacting to our experiences. We are "living" just like (or similar to) we do in the waking state. In "The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep," Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche writes:

"This is the sequence: awareness in the first moment of experience, in response, in dream, ..."
In other words, in order to get lucid in dreams (regularly), we must first master awareness in the first moment of experience and response to experience! We must practice this while awake.

Rinpoche continues:

"One cannot just start at the end. You can determine for yourself how mature your practice is: as you encounter the phenomena of experience, examine your feelings and your reactions to the feelings. Are you controlled by your interactions with the objects of experience or do you control your reaction to them? ... can you remain in steady presence in diverse situations?"

I believe this, right here, is the crux of lucid dreaming practice.

Sitting mindfulness meditation (I prefer open eyed, with visual input, not sitting stock still or focusing only on a single object, but looking around experiencing my environment) can be helpful to get started. Start in a quiet location, like on a bench in park (there's still usually plenty of activity if you open yourself to experiencing it!) Then gradually move up to more and more complex, hustling & bustling environments as you master remaining mindful in relatively quiet situations.