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So I've decided to do a 30-day challenge of using the SSILD technique. I have experimented with the technique before with somewhat mixed success. So this time I'm going to use nothing but SSILD for the next 30 days and record how many LD's and FA's I get. So here we go:

Day 4

I went to bed at about 11:15. I woke up at 4:45, went to the bathroom, and came back to do my cycles. I honestly wasn't really focusing on the cycles that much, and I got more caught up in random other thoughts. I finally woke up at 7:50 (I had to meet with someone at 8:30). Nothing. Zip. Nada. I don't remember any dreams from that night. However, when I got back from my meeting, I went back to bed (about 9:15). I completed the cycles again, this time focusing a little more on the effort. I completed the cycles, but it took me a long time to fall asleep. I had one of the longest and one of the haziest LDs I've ever had. I don't remember a lot of it, but I do remember a few lucid fragments.

1. As I realized I was lucid, the scene went black. As I rubbed my hands together, I decided where I wanted to go (the lobby of my grocery store - see Day 1 of challenge). The scene kind of rushed in, and I was fairly close to where I wanted (outside in the parking lot...). I felt like I could still kind of feel my real body, so I went on a quest to separate from my body.

2. I walked by this restaurant where all the workers were friends from school or church. Like seriously, that was the name of the restaurant, Friends from School and Church. I went inside and asked for one specific friend, and the employee went to go get her. As I waited, I contemplated telling her that I was lucid and that this was a dream. However, as I thought about this, I still felt my real body in bed. I remembered that in OBEs, one can float out of your body, so that's what I tried. I grabbed a balloon that was next to me and sucked the helium out of it. Sure enough, I started to float. However, I still felt my body, possibly even more than before.

3. I was in my driveway. In one last attempt to become fully lucid and ditch my body, I decided to just walk around and explore, seeing and feeling how real everything was, hoping that the more lucid I became, the less I would feel my body. I walked around my car, feeling how cold and hard the metal was. I grabbed some dirt and felt it fall through my fingers. It probably would've worked if I had started earlier, but instead, I woke up.

It was really a weird sensation, feeling my body for the entire lucid dream. It kind of inhibited my dream control, and it was definitely distracting. However, an LD is an LD, so...

Day 4: LD - 1, FA - 0
Total : LD - 4, FA - 1

So I've decided to do a 30-day challenge of using the SSILD technique. I have experimented with the technique before with somewhat mixed success. So this time I'm going to use nothing but SSILD for the next 30 days and record how many LD's and FA's I get. So here we go:

Day 3

Technically this should be day 4, but Saturday night I only got 4 hours of sleep, so I didn't even bother to attempt a lucid dream.

Tonight, however, I went to bed at about 12, but because my back was killing me for some reason, I didn't get to sleep until about 1. I woke up at 6:00, went to the bathroom, and then did the cycles before I fell asleep. To be honest, my dream recall was a little hazy, but I do remember one very hazy non-lucid dream, one FA and one LD.

1. I was at Target getting some supplies for some party with my friend. The line was ridiculously long (gotta love those old ladies and their checks...), so me and my friend decided to grab some Nerf guns and fight. These guns, though, were ridiculously overpowered, and they shot the bullets so hard they were able to leave cracks in the concrete walls. I figured that it wouldn't be good to destroy this Target (plus I couldn't imagine how much pain those babies could inflict), but my friend insisted and started chasing me with it. I was hiding behind aisles trying not to get shot until...

2. My mom woke me up in the morning. I got up and walked over to my closet while she told me some news or some story about something. I realized however, that my room looked wrong, like there was a mirror next to my closet that wasn't there IWL. I did a noise plug RC and found that I was dreaming, but as soon as I did, the scene went black. I tried rubbing my hands together, shouting, "lights on," and finally spinning around.

I don't remember exactly what happened next. I think I woke up, but managed to stay completely still and perform a DEILD, but whether that awakening was true or if I was lucid from the start of the next dream, I'm not sure.

3. I was lucid. I started flying off the ground without really thinking about it. I decided to go with it and lifted myself higher. I slowly rose to about 20 feet, and then I picked up speed until I got about 100 feet in the air. There were tons of power lines in my way, probably the biggest mess of power cables I'd ever seen, but I dodged them all fairly easily. I then set myself horizontally and prepared to take off. It took me a couple tries to get the right technique. I first tried Hancock style with my arms back, but it kind of made me pitch down towards the ground. Finally, I got it with both hands outstretched. I flew faster than any other time I had tried to fly in a dream (usually I just poke along at a really slow pace, like my flying engine is just a trolling motor). I managed to lift myself higher until I got to space. I continued to fly, while the planets rotated behind me, kind of like the background in the Flintstones. I continued this until my phone vibrating woke me up.

Day 3: LD - 1, FA - 1
Total: LD - 3, FA - 1