Tried SSILD again with no lucids. Though I enjoyed weirdly vivid dreams. The weirdest moment was a guy smelling the shaved and perfumed wrist of Whitney Houston. It wasn't attached to a body though.

The thing about SSILD's that make them weird is that I take more of my senses into the dream than normal. They don't "seem" pumped up. They really are more...everything. I'm hoping to have success with them over the weekend as I won't have to worry about waking up with an alarm. It seems most of my long/vivid dreams occur during the hour before my alarm clock goes off. It pulls me right out of my dream and leaves me wishing for more time.

Oh, yeah. This is the 3rd morning where I had a super intense dream after waking up briefly at 30 minutes before my alarm. Once again I can't catch the transition from wakefulness to sleep. One minute I'm lying awake in the bed. The next minute I'm in a dream. I don't know why I'm not lucid then!!