October 2016 progress so far !
Hey everybody!
To begin this report I'd like to say that I had my first success with SSILD ! Yayayay :bliss:
I've been trying (almost) every night since Monday night but always had a hard time because of the noise in the dorm or because of my (late) schedules!
Went to bed around 4 after playing video games for a while then woke up around 8:30 (alarm), tried the technique and slept until 9:30 (alarm) and then until 12.
The dream seemed very long and I don't remember how I got lucid because of that. I don't remember doing a RC so I guess lucidity just popped up (from the mindfulness I try to do during the whole day) ?
I'm still doing mindfulness every morning (20 minutes now), it's been 40 days now and I clearly feel the effects :
- I'm calmer
- I tend to do mindfulness at different times during the day
- I label all emotions when I find myself not present
I've been training my prospective memory for a little more than 2 weeks and 5 days now. Thing is I have a harder time getting more than half of them, usually I hit 2/3 or 3/4 by the end of the second week!
Mindfulness during the day was a great idea, I really prefer it over ADA ! I'm going to keep trying SSILD every night until the end of the week and then switch between MILD and SSILD. So I plan on focusing on being present/mindful throughout the day, dream recall (only an average of 2 dreams remembered each night which I find a bit low) and the prospective memory training! (That makes it 2 LDs during October then :cheeky:)