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All I was meditate 30 minutes before bed and 30 minutes during WBTB and had a short lucid this morning. Found dream character. It was alright.

Had a lucid dream this morning about being in a car lot.

Did my WBTB meditation thing. Went to sleep and found myself able to move in a dream with no visuals. I just felt my way around by touch and the visuals came in by themselves. And like most of my lucid dreams, they start with me getting out my bed. I got outside my front door and found Naomi, but I was too caught up on trying to close the door behind me and the dream ended.

Coming in and out of sleep: Had three lucid dreams. One I was exploring a favela in Brazil. The second, I was in my neighborhood and the third I don't quiet remember the details but I remember counting it as lucid.

Had two lucid dreams this morning via MILD.

Had a short lucid dream this morning. It was via SSILD. I was jumping around this room housing three engines. They were more like 3 super fans or whatever. Crazy, I know. Dreams are going to do dream things. Woke up and tried to get back into the dream world. Reached sleep paralysis but I screwed myself by expecting some weird monster to attack me. A result of me reading Sleep Paralysis horror stories on this site. Since the dream world heavily relies on expectations, I felt something hug me. I turned my head to see this red creature thing hugging me. It resembled Him from Powerpuff Girls. That girly demon dude. Snapped me right awake again.

Important take away here is that once the WBTB ritual is completed and/or a quiet mindful state is achieved, it is imperative to FOCUS ON FALLING ASLEEP. That is how I got my lucid dream morning. I must absolutely keep this mind because I have a bad habit of wanting to lucid dream so bad in short time I have for a morning nap, that I try too hard to stay aware and thus stay awake. WRONG.

Do SSILD. Get into a quiet mindful state via meditation. RELAX AND FOCUS ON FALLING ASLEEP. Trust in the technique to do its job.

Had a lucid dream this morning. Yes, all it takes is 18 minutes of doing SSILD for me to successfully lucid dream. 6 cycles of SSILD. 3 senses per cycle. 1 minute per sense equals a lucid dream. However, I do run into the problem of losing lucidity in the dream or waking up and falling back to sleep without lucidity. I remember walking around in my neighborhood looking for something to do and that's about it.

Anyway to lucid dream the way I do:


1. Wake up after 4-6 hours of sleep. Find a place to sit in a half-lotus position or any comfortable position as if you were trying to meditate.
2. Go to https://fitlb.com/tabata-timer and set up your timer. For me, it is 18 rounds of 1:00 minute intervals. 1:00 minute per sense. Sight->Hearing->Touch repeat. If you are paying attention, you should end on the exercise focusing on touch. If not, then you missed a transition somewhere and that is okay. Just complete that cycle you are on without the timer.
3. Lie down and go to sleep. During the time between lying down and actually falling asleep, the best thing you can do is preoccupy your mind with extra SSILD cycles. Don't pay attention to the time spent on each sense. Focus for a good 30 seconds or 10 breaths then move on. THE OBJECTIVE HERE IS TO FALL ASLEEP. Do not try to anchor, mantra, or try to catch the transition. If you do catch the transition into the dream world, cool; if not, then don't get fixated on it. We are looking for a DILD not a WILD. The expectation to lucid dream is enough.

Following these steps, a lucid dream will happen.

Did SSILD - got a lucid dream. It was longer than most before. Yeah, SSILD is beast. Caught a false awakening and continued my lucid dreaming experience. Attempted to summon a dream character. Didn't go so well. Somewhere along the line I lost lucidity and had a dream about a co-worker and being at my old stomping grounds.

I think this Lucid Dream could have been 15-30 minutes long. That's what it felt like since I never had a strong sense of time in dreams and clocks usually suck in them. Spent most of the time running away from this gigantic monster that I summoned and wanted to kill me. In the process of running away, I learned to how control the dream. It seems the same faculty used to visualize in the waking like is attached to the dream world so to grant myself superpowers, I need to actively imagine and expect the thing to happen. I used this many times to fly away and transform into a dog and into a monkey. I even met Chuck Norris along the way hiding under a bed of flowers. The dream ended with me getting on a spaceship as a really intelligent monkey to escape. I figured they can't reach me in outer space can they?

This really is a testament to how SSILD is king. The thing is, I did the SSILD cycles in a half-lotus position for 40 minutes during WBTB before lying down and continuing to sleep.

Stay in a half-lotus position and did 6 cycles of SSILD which totalled 30 minutes. Went to sleep and had a lucid dream. Couldn't find anything to do other than roam my neighborhood so I lost lucidity like always and had a vivid dream about chris brown, his car and other american celebrities.