And lucid #12 just now this morning :). DILD, a bit longer than last night, and of course, according to custom, girl-induced (well, maybe). PTCILD (Pretty-teen-cheerleader induced lucid dream) to be exact. And open eyed, this time, thank goodness.
And an interesting first:
+ first lucid with barely any memory of the dream leading up to the lucid moment, in an otherwise very low recall night.
While not a first, it was a spontaneous ("BAM") lucidity, which I haven't encountered since my LD #1. But LD #1 had excellent all night recall before the LD....weird.
I choose to interpret this as ADA/RC starting to kick in! Woohoo, that would be AWESOME.... Or at the very least, picking up where I left off.
Normally my lucids come at the end of a night filled with dream recall. This one too was in the later morning hours, but if you count wakings and to-bed time, after only about 5 hours of sleep.
And some more data: I find my recall is WAY better when I go to bed within about 30 minutes of midnight. Last night was way late (about 2am probably). The two previous nights I got to bed "on time" and had great recall. Amazing how that works! Why is sleep schedule the hardest thing to do? It seems the simplest compared to all the daytime awareness work. For single people, easy perhaps, for family folks, can be way harder.
Some things I did "wrong" last night:
+ exercised too late, too close to bed (wasn't too intense though)
+ ate a fairly large meal right before preferred bedtime (ended up staying up later so as not to be digesting while trying to sleep)
+ got to bed way too late
I woke up after about 2-3 hours from what I remember to be a long and action packed dream, and I couldn't recall ONE TINY DETAIL of it, not one. It was right there "on the tip of my tongue." I ended up working on the recall for 30 minutes, trying to make any association with my normal dreaming themes, and absolutely nothing came in. That was mistake #4, I was really awake and alert by the end of that vigorous recall attempt. No sleepiness on tap at all. My usual back-to-sleep tech just didn't work, as there was just no sleepiness "on tap" to sink into. I also slept fairly long the two previous nights, maybe I used up my sleepiness. So I got out of bed. Sat in the rocking chair for a while, back to bed, still not sleepy, got up again went to kitchen had a small bowl of cereal, as I felt hungry. The room was too warm as well, inhibiting feeling comfortable in bed and drowsy. Sitting in the kitchen probably cooled me down. Back to bed, and yay now there's some drowsiness, as I started slipping into sleep, my beloved wife started snoring :). Thankfully her alarm then went off soon after, it was her turn to get up, she got up to do the breakfast duty, I put earplugs back in to be safe, and I quickly fell asleep and dreamed.
And WTF, I kept my eyes open the whole time, and was looking around the scene (while the PTC was wrapped in my arms and still passionately kissing :), and still I woke up after only about 15 seconds of "action." I was not focused on her face right up against mine.
December goals are starting to look up.......and I have a solid week of vacation leading up to the 31st, so to-bed time should be under control hopefully!