Rodulf

Still, frustratingly close to lucidity. Lots of dream and contacts with animal spirits over a three-night period.

Last night.....I am in some type of country/barn/farm setting. I find a huge snake. It has spiny frills along it's back, like a dinosaur. It crawls around and the frills become larger. I know it is a very special animal. There is no threat or fear. just wonderment.

Quasi-lucid dream of wielding a Japanese Katana. Lately, I have been working on Japanese martial art and have trained with a Katana almost daily. This showed up in my dream.

I am standing in front of a mirror, holding a sword. As I visualize the cuts, my sword moves, smoothly and very fast. I can actually see the cuts in the air. I look at myself in the mirror and see a Samurai woman moving the sword. She smiles at me. The dream lasted, subjectively, for 1-2 minutes.

I am dreaming a lot, but they seem to elude my memory. Too bad, because they seem to be great dreams. Jeez....memory! Memory!

I've been waking up in the early AM, unable to shut down my thinking. Tonight. I will try Magnesium, 5-HTP and Melatonin in a stack to induce better sleep. Also, using my self-made Sleep/Dream Cycle session, listening to it all night.

I make immersive meditation sessions and record them. Each session is 90-minutes and contains brainwave entrainment ramping from Theta (7 hz) down to Delta (2 hz) then rising back to Theta. I place different lucidity cues during the last Theta part of the session. I listen to this during the night on a Bluetooth sleep mask. The session loops and replays.