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After a 5 day dry-spell, I managed to have a lucid dream this morning.

- Wake up at 6:15 A.M
- WBTB period was 115 minutes including reading and working my computer for a coding assignment.
- Go to sleep at roughly 8:30 A.M with needing to get ready for work at 9:45 A.M(Yikes)

There was a point where in the middle of my nap, I wake up again for 20 seconds. I instinctively "[got] present to the moment." That's all I'm thinking during that micro-waking. "Get present". It's this thing where I take a mental pause, clear my mind and focus on the here and now. I also sort of focus on where my Frontal Sinus is located - between my eyebrows. I don't accept the existence of a "third eye" so more testing needs to be done. I fall asleep like that and later on I recognize that I am dreaming.

I didn't have a lucid dream today. I think I woke up at the wrong time. I started and ended my WBTB 1-hour later than I would have liked. The WBTB period was still 90 minutes but that didn't seem to matter. I wasn't in the right state of mind while falling to sleep either.

Stayed awake for ~60 minutes and went to sleep with the intention to have a lucid dream.

I've have had at least 2 lucid dreams in the past two days. I think I may have figured out what is causing me to have lucid dreams. It was never the specific technique or the meditation. It was the fact that I was staying awake for 90 minutes then falling back to sleep with the intention to lucid dream. 90 minutes is not a magic number. It's about fully waking up - when the mind/body least wants to - and stretching the rubber band of sleep deprivation. Then we release that tension by lying down and quickly falling asleep with no other thought than to recognize the next time we dream. Some experts would describe this as REM rebound. One must figure out how their mind/body relate to sleep deprivation and REM sleep during the WBTB period.



For my next dream goal, I am going to get a dream character to tell me their name.