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Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

6:00am-Woke up and quickly reality checked my room. Realized I had successfully escaped a WILD night, and discovered that I was back in control; if I closed my eyes, did not fight movement urges, and did not attempt to maintain concsiousness, I could switch to natural sleep on demand. I also realized that I was in the perfect situation for a successful WILD, but chose to rest instead.

10:00am - Woke up again. I guess I was tired from all the hard work. NEVER slept until 10:00am before. Good thing I don't have anything important to do today.

Very little dream recall...

The first dream, all I can recall is a brief moment of being at a computer and looking at graphs with my mom.

One dream was longer, and involved a (fictional) uncle of mine.

He had a big house and threw a party, and even had a music group play. Everything was fine up until this point. We had arrived at the house, been warmly welcomed, and been treated very hospitably, but something about him bothered me. When the music group began to play, I decided I didn't like the music, and proceeded to sabotage the party to get rid of them. Walked in and out of doors in hallways, past several members of my family, trying to find some way to stop the band from playing anymore. Eventually I found several huge objects that I was somehow able to pick up and move without the least bit of struggle. I then brought them all up to the living room balcony and began knocking over the band players by dropping the objects on their heads

Obviously, this was causing much strife with my 'uncle'. He and the rest of my family all cornered me and began interrogating me with questions about why I would do such a thing when everyone had been so nice to us. For some reason I still thought the band and my 'uncle' were just plain evil, but then I woke up. It was a pretty clear dream; it seems I could have entered lucidity, but unfortunately I did not remember to RC.

I remember having more dreams prior to these, but they left my memory instantly upon awakening.

11:30pm - Went to sleep without WILDing intentionally OR unintentionally, without much help. Every time I would begin to enter WILD, I'd see the eye again, staring back at me, morphing into a million different forms, occasionally revealing an eyebrow or other details in the surrounding area. I would then look away from the eye and stop holding onto consciousness and be fine.

Over the night, I had several dreams, but I can only recall two again, in terms of length, in the same order as before.

The first is very unclear...I saw my dad making a statement about my sister that was bothersome. Something like "She's going back to college and is not allowed to EVER leave!" He also decided on a husband for her to be forcibly married to, though I cannot remember who or why.

The second was longer, but not much happened. Most of the time I was just randomly walking upstairs and downstairs, all around my house, not doing much, just seeing people from my family doing various normal things. I saw some history channel thing about trains on the TV for a brief time. One time when I went upstairs, I found an girl that I had never seen before putting on makeup in the bathroom. When I stepped in there to find out who she was, I saw a wedding dress hung up next to the shower. I decided that she and I must be getting married, and she agreed. We hugged and very nearly...did something else, too, but decided it was better just to wait. We decided we'd be married in two days, so it wouldn't be that long. I went back in my room and found that I had a bunk bed all of a sudden. I got on the bottom and she got on top and we went to sleep.

No lucidity--issue was, I saw no doorways in the dream, and my practice has been to RC when I go through doors. I'm beginning to think that my family is a dream sign. I've seen someone from my family in every dream I've had for the past two nights. Interestingly, WILDing didn't bring me any dreams of my family, but since it doesn't require RC's or signs, it doesn't matter.

Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream

11:30pm - Tried the first time in my life for lucid dreams by this WILD technique I learned from the internet. Even though the guide said it normally takes 20-30 minutes, I reached weightlessness after 5 mins. Panicked and forced a wake up.

The time wore on to Sunday: 12/13/09 - 12:30am

Accidentally fell asleep at some unknown time until 4:00am. No memory of sleep or dreams.

At 4:30am, I accidentally fell asleep again, this time achieving lucidity.

First I was in a college dorm, not in body, but spectating like a spirit. I saw a messy desk, covered with pencils, including a single bright red one. The desk was metal and looked to be at least 25 years old. A built-in lamp was mounted beneath the top shelf and cupboard.

Instantly, I was whisked to my living room. I saw a pile of objects that my mind registered as Christmas presents. I was in body then, and handeled each object, finding them to be true to real life things that I own, only these were brand new again. I realized how outdated and deteriorated some of it has become. I saw packaging labels in crystal clarity that I've only seen once my whole life, and some other packages that don't exist, yet they were fully realistic in physics, lighting, and texture. I picked them up, dropped them, spun them around on the glass side table they were on, and found it all to function as expected.

Next I was whisked away to church, where the clarity reached its strongest point. Having not intended to try for lucidity in the first place, I now thought I was there and awake. I was talking to a couple friends of mine. I heard their voices and laughs and saw their expressions and actions in full, accurate detail. Then, another friend of mine walked up to us. "I should ask him about lucid dreaming." I thought, since he is a very knowledgeable fellow. BIG MISTAKE. He replied by going through the steps for having a WILD, directly quoting what I had read on the internet. When he reached the weightlessness part, I said, "That's what freaks me out!" And instantly I realized I was dreaming and as a result of the shock, felt as if I were being sucked into a vortex and put back on my bed.

I was stuck in paralysis. Literally. Couldn't move. A wave of weightlessness started to come over my body, beginning with my toes and moving up. I thought I was WILDing again, but since I had no visualized dream in mind, and rather than go somewhere I didn't want to, I thrust open my eyes and moved my head however I still was able. The paralysis broke when the wave reached my head. Checked the clock and only half-an-hour had gone by; 5:00 am now. I had been a bit afraid that I would get stuck in a dream for a day or more; those fears are now quelled.

I am unharmed; very disoriented, but sitting up for a moment fixed that. Actually, I felt more energetic from that half hour than from a half night of normal sleep.

The process of getting in and out of lucidity still scares me a bit, but coming through it alive makes me more than willing to try again. Besides, lucidity itself is WICKED AWESOME, DUDE!

7:52am - Now that I've fully woken up from my first lucid dreams, I diagnose that lucid dreaming itself has had no negative side effect on me. The lack of sleep is catching up to me, but otherwise I feel fine. Nothing is out of the ordinary for sleep-depravity. I intend to try lucid dreaming again this afternoon, when/where it is safe to give another trial run.

1:26pm - Tried to go to New York and fly over the city using WILD. Didn't panic at weightlessness. Wasn't calm enough, though. My excitement caused my heart to beat very rapidly, almost dangerously so, suspending me in between wake and sleep. I saw the brightness of the New York sky through closed eyelids, saw the faint image of traffic below me on an apartment deck, and heard some city noises, but intentionally left the dream due to heart overactivity. Waking like that faithfully produced a degree of disorientation, but also gave me jitters from working my heart so hard. I MUST LEARN CALMNESS!

Something I just realized is that ALL lucid dreams of mine begin and end with me seeing an eye. It frequently changes shape and occasionally other features (eyebrows, lashes, etc) appear as well.

11:45pm - Attempted to sleep without entering a WILD. Concluded from study that WILD is not the preferable method, and not very successful.
The night wore on, but every time my eyes shut, I'd begin a WILD. Began to fear that I was messing up my brain and wouldn't ever be able to get a good night's sleep again without doctor's aid. Prayed for help which quickly calmed me down and I went to sleep naturally, though it was late.

Thank you for stopping by my second DJ (or Dream Journal, for those of you who are new to lucid dreaming)!

I hope you enjoy reading of my adventures in the dream world, and possibly even learn a thing or two from my discoveries and/or mistakes.
My last dream journal had an overwhelmingly massive (and positive) response; it is my hope that this one will be every bit as successful, if not moreso!

As you have no doubt noticed, the new DJ has also brought along with it a lot of new looks as well. I've changed my avatar/sig to match the new DV scheme, there are now widgets in the sidebar you can use for easier navigation, and organization of posts and comments in general has been improved as well.

Please leave comments, positive or (constructively) negative! I always enjoy hearing people's thoughts on this kind of thing.

Enjoy your stay in my DJ!
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2:30a-5:00a
Watching crimes from trucks
I took really bad notes on this…

So, what I do recall is walking in the dark and I passed by someone who took a bat and smashed a car window (watching a crime = dream sign). I didn’t want him to see me, so I hid inside this truck, underneath a huge comforter that just so happened to be in there. I kept myself hidden as I phoned the police.

This happened a second time in the dream, different crime, different truck.

5:00a-9:20a
I don’t recall any dreams from this point. I woke up at 9:20 and somehow WILD’ed into a 3rd person dream and came back out. I remember slipping in as fast as a DEILD, but I was watching a scene from 3rd person. I remember thinking, "Okay, what do I do with this??" and woke up again.

9:20a-10:45a
Parents’ party
My dad was organizing this gift-giving party (but it wasn’t Christmas). Roger was there, and a bunch of random people, too. I remember that I had forgotten to give some presents to people and they got me something, so I felt kind of guilty about that.

I remember this weird bit where my contacts (I don’t wear contacts IRL) kept falling out and I kept rinsing them under water and putting them back in. At one point, I saw a nearly microscopic Ponyo in a bucket…



Sailor Senshi at D-point.
I was Sailor Moon with the Inner Senshi in an underground cave. We left Sailor Mercury by herself while we went on to scope out the cave and find out where D-point is. While that was happening, I was actually watching Sailor Mercury, 3rd person now. She had a rush of enemies swarming towards her, and she was making some mad calculations on a glowy, golden laptop. She calculated D-point and it spawned a piece of paper. She fed it through the computer so it would fax it to us (I had a semi-lucid moment where I thought to myself, “Fax it? Well, Sailor Moon is an early 90’s show…”). She became engulfed by the swarm of monsters.

I’m back to being Sailor Moon in 1st person, and we saw the laptop appear out of thin air. Sailor Venus retrieved it and said that D-point was just down the cave from us, we’re very close. But our main adversaries also appeared. There was a female and a male (who were RL… we were all animated). They saw the laptop and wanted it for their nefarious means. Venus commanded us all to protect it, but in the battle, she perished. We retreated, for now.

We’re at a school and I’m getting my clothes out for gym class. Jupiter tells me I’m slow and to hurry up. I enter the gym, and I see Minako (Sailor Venus) leading a cardio class. “But… I thought she just died?” I thought to myself, and she vanished.

We’re in another place, and Rei (Mars) is telling us what she is fighting for. I get emotional and start sobbing and hugging her. She tries to laugh me off. Our male adversary appears (lounging on a white chaise) and says something about how he wasn’t always evil, or something (if Mario is reading this, you’re probably picturing Kunzite. He didn’t look like Kunzite. He had short, spiky black hair and a goatee). Rei says something like, “That isn’t likely.” I’m overwhelmed with anger at him for spear-heading this whole thing and killing two of my friends. I went over to him and start slapping him repeatedly across both cheeks. I noticed it was ineffective, and it caused me to be semi-lucid again. I said something to the effect of, “Next time I see you, you’re a dead motherfucker.” My friends are shocked, and I think, “Err, yeah, that was a bit out of character!” He leaves, but as he does so, he kidnaps Rei.

Space Games
I’m in a shuttle with people, approaching this massive space station. And it’s like… MASSIVE. It’s red with thousands of lit-up windows. We enter the station via a hatch (like a submarine hatch), and as we’re walking along, the ceiling keeps getting lower and lower, until I have to army-crawl on my stomach to get around.

We organize this game of throwing a red ball against the wall.



So long as it’s your teammate that successfully throws the ball against the wall, you score. Everyone is trying to stop you from doing so by kicking the ball out of your hands or impeding you with their feet (remember, low ceiling, no one is standing).

I’m the MVP of my team. The game is halted, and this chick is admiring my ratty sneakers. She asks me how old they are and I say they were probably made in 2005, on Earth. She is impressed and I say I guess that makes them 4000 years old now.

Originally Posted by Cacophony

I'm with Yish, we're at some sort of ruin site. There are many pyramids around, he's walking through the entrance to one of the pyramids. I'm apprehensive, but follow at a distance. Inside, it is very dark. As I get further into the pyramid it gets harder to determine where I am, how to get out, or if there's even a way out at all. I'm edging along, my hand on the wall. I'm scared that if I lose the wall I'll get lost inside. Finally, I emerge into the sunlight.

There are more pyramids around. We begin walking toward another one. Immediately we see hundreds of small children crying and running, as if they're running away from something. I realize that there are thousands of monkeys chasing them, and beyond the monkeys are tons of armed soldiers. The monkeys are clinging to the children's faces. Yish and I duck into another golden pyramid, I'm not sure why but a really eerie feeling enveloped my entire body, washed over me giving me shivers.

The rest was a little hazy, I remember fragmented pieces of other dreams but... So it goes.

The only thing I can really remember about this dream is trying to do the stage makeup for my cosplay of Sander Cohen from BioShock, except for some reason I keep putting green, black, and gray base on (from my Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name Zombie cosplay, I presume) instead.

This dream fragment involves messing up a cosplay. I normally have dreams about forgetting the costume entirely halfway to the convention, but sometimes they involve putting on the wrong parts. They usually serve to remind me to finish up my costume for an upcoming convention, but Zombie's already finished, and Sander was for last year's cons. I do need to get to work on GraveRobber from Repo! The Genetic Opera, though.

It all started a long time ago. About three or four months before I came to this site, and before I knew what lucid dreaming was. However, I had been having LDs before I knew what they were. This is what you've all been waiting for. In a dream I had, I was in a valley by a forest and train tracks. I was with some friends. Then, a giant beast and a few other smaller monsters(including one werewolf) started to attack. The giant beast was eating some of my friends(later in my dreams to be something I do)! Then, he picked me up after I tried to run. He lifted me above his head, opening his mouth. Being scared to death, I shouted,"Don't kill me! I'll join you!" Then, he put me down. Then he gestured his friends to stop killing. Then, everyone of my friends ran into a corner. They all transformed to human form. They all ganged up by me. The leader(the big monster dude who almost ate me.), asked me what kind of monster I wanted to be. I said werewolf. So, the werewolf guy transformed and bit me. And that's how I became a werewolf. The dream was so set to my mind for the rest of the week, I guess it was planted to my mind that I'm a werewolf in my dreams. So, I am. I'm pretty sure those guys are still out there in my dream world. Maybe I should meet up with them in an LD.

Type: regular dream.
Lucidity: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Vividness: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

"Hey," I asked a man passing by in his emerald green car, "have you seen Jake Sully?"

"No." He drove off.

I looked around to see if anyone else would come. It was daytime, and the sky was a bright blue with a few wispy clouds here and there. I was in the middle of nowhere, on the side of a road that wound all the way around a large lake. There were no trees, just short grass, both green and dead patches, so you could see the other side of the lake. There was no way to enter this road that encircled the lake, and the car that passed me just a few seconds ago continued to go around and around the lake on the road. I didn't realize that this was strange.

Another vehicle, a rusty orange piece-of-junk truck this time, suddenly appeared and drove up to me, stopping. The person inside rolled their window down, which took a few moments because it was sticking. There was one person in the truck: a woman who looked like she was around forty years old. She was smoking a cigarette and there was dusty smoke coming out of the window, but I couldn't smell anything.

"I'm looking for Jake Sully," I told her.

She nodded her head and handed me a piece of white paper with something printed on it. It was an image of Jake Sully that looked like it was printed on with a home printer. The image looked sort of like the one below (maybe because I've seen it so many times before), but certain features of his face were warped and "dream-like".

I took the paper and she drove off.

It started out I was on stage at a Green Day concert. The lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong...well, I think he was just bring fans on stage. It was weird. Anyway, my dad comes over and gestures for me to get down.
"You need to go buy ice cream for Mrs. Smith's kids."he said. I sighed, then did as he said. Oddly, Mrs. Smith had nine kids(totally missed DS), but she only three in real life, and in the dream they were all babies(another missed DS!). So, I journeyed to the ice cream shop. I came in. This place looked more like a burger joint rather than an ice cream shop. I proceeded to the front, where an employee stood(and he looked like he rather be eating broken glass than working here).
"How may I help you?"he said.
"Nine ice creams please."I replied.
"What kind?"
"Uh...(having no clue what they wanted)all vanilla."I said. The guy slowly got the ice cream cones together, and slowly filled them. In the meantime, I dropped my wallet on accident. Then, a girl I know came over, picked it up(and when you think she'd hand it to me), and ran out the door.
"D*** it! That's my money!"I shouted. So, using my common sense, I chased her outside and caught her. I got my money back, and I think she got arrested.
"You're harsh."she said. "Can't spare a dime." She glared at me.
"Well, excuse me! I have to buy ice cream for nine kids!" I said, returning to the shop. I know, I know. When's the werewolf part coming? Well, it's almost here, but I think it's only reasonable to post the whole dream...so sorry. And I know...long dream. So, I bought the ice cream when I came back in.
"Come again..."the employee said like he didn't care(I'm sure he didn't). So, I came back to the concert, and Armstrong was now throwing yellow heart-shaped hand grenades. Odd...very odd. Then, my dad came over with the ice cream receipt.
"You spent that much money...on ice cream?!"he shouted. Now I was p***ed. I walked away. "Get back here!" he rambled on. I ignored him, and continued on. I was a sidewalk now. Then, the world started falling around me, like I was waking up or something. I quickly reacted, by jumping fifty feet in the air! I landed, and the world stopped falling. Then, I realized something: How did I jump so high? I DON'T HAVE the ability to do that! LUCIDITY ACTIVATED! H*** yeah! About time, right? Then, I used the spinning method to do a setting change. I usually go to random places, so I did. I saw a light blue house in the new setting. It was also night time. I went into the house with caution. A woman saw me.
"Good,"she said",you're finally here. Now go fix that pipe upstairs!" I figured I'd just go upstairs, then ditch the place. However, upstairs was a room overlooking a huge swamp. Then, a group of people came in, with my mom included. Oh dear, what now?
"Hey, I have a job to do, and you're all in my way!"I said.
"They're taking you away for tests."my mom said.
"What?"I asked.
"Tests, honey. We think you're hiding something from us and we want a confession.Confess now, or take the tests."she replied. Well, I don't think I knew what I was hiding. Then, I saw a young girl, probably five years older than me. I became hungry for some odd reason. Then, it came to me. Oh yeah...I'm a werewolf in my dreams! I was still lucid, so I knew I'd get my prize. But it was not even dusk yet. So, I knew what I wanted to do.
"I'll take these tests."I said. So, the people grabbed me and transported me to a building. We stopped by a large pool outside the building.
"For the first test,"a man said"We will have you swim to the bottom of the pool."
"How deep is it?"I asked.
"Twenty feet. You will drown, and we will save you before it's too late. Don't worry, our life guards are the best."the man replied.
"H*** no!" I said. I jumped into the pool and began to swim away. Then, that girl chased me. I got to the other side where she was already waiting.
"Sorry."she said. Oh, she was gonna be sorry at moon rise. Then, she tranquilized me with a dart. I fell into the pool...all the way to the bottom. The life guards quickly saved me.
"Ready to fess up?" the man from earlier said.
"No f***in' way."I replied. I had only come here to waste time. Then, when enough time had passed, the full moon would be present, and it would be werewolf buffet time. Oddly, it's a full moon at night all the time in my dreams. Sometimes, I just don"t see it. For the next test, they tried hypnotizing me. They once again failed to make me confess. Finally, as we were about to go to another room for the next test, dusk had ended, and it was night! Then, as I was scanning the skies for the full moon...I awoke from my dream! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! I was so close! Next LD I have, I'm hunting that girl down! To all of you who read this to be disappointed to see no werewolf action, I'm sorry. But I promise my next full LD will be werewolf filled.

Type: regular dream.
Lucidity: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Vividness: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Notes:
RCCW - roller coaster car wash.

My father, my sister and I were bringing in our car for a car wash. I didn't know the name of the building, only that we needed to wash our car really badly. We stepped inside once a man took our keys and got into our car, and into something very bizarre.

Right when you were to walk in, the room was big. It was rectangular-shaped, and the walls were painted a paler orange with white square accents, almost like the colors in some modern houses. What was directly in front of us, though, was even weirder: a roller coaster. I suppose it was some sort of attraction for while you're waiting for your car to be washed? It came from an open doorway to the right of the room, went in front of us, curled around the other side, and went back through another door on the right-hand side again. The roller coaster moved slowly, as there was no 'set time' to load yourselves on. You had to know when it was going to jerk and keep moving, so you didn't fall. But other than that, it was pretty safe.

The design of the cars were square, brighter orange, and a solid guard-rail on all four sides. You had to really jump in over these rails in order to get inside. Sooner or later, we were able to get in before the coaster moved on to the next room. In this new room, the roller coaster went up, and then down, and then up and down again on a gentler sort of slope. But then, there was a larger drop, followed by an inversion. When I woke up, I thought this was extremely stupid, since there were no restraints whatsoever on the cars. We'd have fallen out if the dream had used proper gravitational forces. I also kicked myself for not becoming lucid.

But this dream has two parts. The next section involves Wilson from the show House.

After the roller coaster, for some reason we didn't go back to the front of the building to pick our car up. Instead, the dream skipped a bit, and we found ourselves in a hospital setting. We were in a room, a spacious room, that looked like one of those divided hospital settings: one patient would be in the front portion of the room, and then on the other side of a curtain, another patient. However, there was no "dividing curtain" and no patients at all inside. There was only one regular (possibly a double?) bed with a baby blue throw. This was on top of the other white hospital blankets, of course. To the upper right of the bed, on the wall, was a larger bulletin board with photos of Wilson's wife, Amber. There were also birthday cards of some sort, letters, and notes. Somehow we knew that Wilson had died in this room; perhaps he was sick, or he had committed suicide. At the end of the room were a few large windows, horizontally placed across the entire wall. We walked slowly towards the windows and looked out. I saw regular, taller buildings.

The dream was now over.

Originally Posted by ineverwakeup13

I dreamed that I was a cowboy. Me and two other guys stood next to some old train tracks. We waited in silence for a train to come. Then, we heard the intense rumbling of a train rushing down the tracks. Soon, the mighty beast was in sight. I signaled the guys, and we jumped in front of it(I know, suicide.). Then, we drew our pistols(and still suicide). We fired with massive power and the train stopped with a grinding screech. We then ransacked the train. Then, the train drove away, and no other harm was done. Next, a train came by and we figured out it was delivering our own things...oops(bad call.). The next train was only fuel tanks. I warned my partners to be careful around these trains. Then, the police arrested us. I was quick to think(even though I was not lucid), and I escaped. There was a nearby school, and I put a fuel tank in it. I threatened to shoot it. The police gave me my partners back and we continued shooting up trains until I awoke.

Originally Posted by ineverwakeup13

Sup DV? This was an LD, just it was very vivid. I can recall changing the setting and summoning some stuff, but it was too vivid to remember completely.

Originally Posted by ineverwakeup13

I dreamed I was at my school. We were walking up the stairs. The stairs had no railing, and there as a 3-floor deep gap. "If you fall down there, you will die man." I said. So, we get upstairs, and someone trips, and you guessed it...they fell through the gap. So, he tried to grab some girl's hand, but he just pulled her down with him. Then, four other girls jumped down to save them. What is wrong with them? That will only kill them too! Idiots! So, since six kids fell to there doom, the stairs were blocked off. Then, I thought of something: Those stairs DON'T HAVE a gap. And they have rails. LUCIDITY ACTIVATED! So then, I used the spinning method. I ended up in a small town. I went to someone's house. I knocked, she said",I'm ready." I thought that was weirded than the gap. I came inside. Then, she had some friends there too. Now this was really getting weird. Her friends said something insulting, and the girl ran away. I figured it'd be a waste of time, but I decided to go calm her down. She parked her car on a cliff, and it began to fall, and she was holding on to the door. I tried to stop with by tying a wire around it, but I accidently knocked it off the cliff with her. Oops.

Originally Posted by ineverwakeup13

I dreamed I was in a big city with some friends. Apparently there was a kracken living in the sewers. (A kracken is like a big squid). Then, it smashed through the streets! HOLY CRAP! It was the size of Godzilla! It grabbed all my friends and returned to the sewers. What a jerk! So, now I call the army. They come in. They're all waiting for the kracken. Then, I remembered a scene in my head, and I knew that something bad was going to happen. Then I thought: How do I know what's about to happen? This is a reoccuring dream! LUCIDITY ACTIVATED! Then, I got so excited, I wake myself up! WTF?!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by ineverwakeup13

I dreamed I was at some weird playground. It was weird, because it was on a beach. Then, I saw two guys from Dragon Ball Z. They started to attack each other for no reason. I thought that was weird. So, I did a reality check. LUCIDITY ACTIVATED! I forgot to do the spinning method, and tried the closed-eye method. But, I had to do the spinning method first. I woke up too soon to do anything! Oh well, another successful MILD.