I did my usual LD routine waking after 4.5 hours of sleep and doing the MILD technique. I too 7 mg of galantamine and 500 choline and attempted a WILD as I fell asleep while listening to the fan.

I didn't have a WILD but I vaguely remember having sleep paralysis, struggling to move before realizing what was happening then relaxing and loosing my fear. I'm not sure if I went directly into feeling myself in my bed with my husband trying to hug and kiss me. I thought I was awake but realized I was dreaming as he is sick and probably wouldn't be doing that, I became lucid for a moment.

I then had a fairly long dream about trying to find a quiet place to sleep so I could attempt lucid dreaming. I tried sleeping in my dad's living room and he cheerfully wanted me to come to breakfast, I then found a dirt road where a bike race was happening around me. I moved to the side of the road where a guy was dumping garbage into a dumpster a few feet from my body...that wasn't going to work. I got up and walked over to edge of the road which was at a cliff overlooking the ocean. It started to rain heavily as I looked about 60 feet down into the calm water and saw a baby seal, polar bear and various ocean life.

I realized I was dreaming spontaneously. I then tried to remember my goals but my memory was poor. I thought, I should try to do some math, as I've heard this can anchor the dream. I said, 2+2=4, but that was as far as that went ha ha. I then flew up over the ocean without much thought. It was very dark and fuzzy and I may have rubbed my arm to stabilize. I did call out. "Increase lucidity" or something like that but that didn't help. (I've tried this maybe 4-5 times but it's never worked). I forgot to look at my hands which does work most of the time.

I remembered I wanted to find a whale. This felt scary but I flew down closer to the water as I really want to do this. Dream is vague here. I think I just flew back up and landed on a sidewalk on land. Visuals are better now. It's night and I'm standing along the side of a building.

I remember my goal of wanting to investigate dream figures more closely. I see two people sitting in the yard and approach them. As I get closer they get smaller and seem to become like wooden dolls with limbs connected by strings. I touch their skin and it is hard and an unnatural color. They don't seem alive or aware. When I think this I get the impression that the second one is sad that I thought this and his head slumps forward in sadness.

I get up and start walking. I see a scary scene of nightmarish figures under the steps. It's cob webby, dark and dirty. My first impulse is to flee but I remember I've read I should embrace or try to understand scary DCs. With this I go up to a scary guy and I vaguely remember putting my arms around the whole scene. Nothing happened and I'm again walking along the pavement and up some steps. I think to myself that this dream seems kind of fake and lacking depth. I then think I should try to have sex.

I go inside the house and find a guy who seems kind of wooden like the others but becomes more real as I talk with him. We start to get sexual and I wake up after a few minutes. I stay perfectly still for a min or two attempting a DEILD. I wake up instead and go over the dream in my head. After this I have a regular dream about being on a journey and finding a mall with beautiful waterfalls coming from the walls that I bathe in. It feels amazingly healing.

I was happy to remember some of my goals. So I've tried to find a whale 3-4 x now and have gotten close but have not done it yet, maybe I'm a little too scared for some reason. I find DCs fascinating and am perplexed by the zombie like nature of some of them. I'm also fascinated by dream symbols and scenes and why certain ones present themselves. Do you think the dream story is still trying to show us things when lucid. It seems the story and purpose of the dream would fall apart once we become lucid since we aren't really participating any more but certain elements continue around us. I guess nobody knows for sure and that is why we explore and experiment. I feel more full of questions and confusion (not a bad thing) the more I lucid dream. Any suggestions for experiments or goals going forward? Any suggested dream interpretation books? I've read a few but none seem to really speak to me.