Day 21

0 LDs
4 recalled Dreams (2/2/0) -> I think this is my personal record although I did not even fall asleep in the nap and although I did not put too much emphasis on recall, rather I wanted to make a DEILD attempt, which was too unprepared. Still I need to wait for some more days to confirm that this is because of the new alarm.

Some more details on my CRC:
- difficult situations for me are doing something monotonous/unchanging for long (even while walking too long I tend to zone out for some time), talking to others, eating, calculating or working on difficult problems (that one is hardest I'd say) and there are a lot of micro situations where I loose focus for a moment because something else needs focus, e.g. crossing the street
- regarding these microsituations, I tend to anticipate them naturally sometimes in the sense that I see the street, know it will be difficult to do the CRC while crossing, and then I can put more awareness on it and place a small intention to remain aware. I think this has helped me quite a few times. I don't want to push myself too hard trying to anticipate, but I will see if I can develop more awareness about it in the next days naturally by nudging myself. i think it will come partially when I work particulalrly on those difficult situations as I will recognize them earlier.
- a big positive sign of progress compared to 1-2 weeks ago is that know CRC is my default state when returning to a calm moment after any action, e.g. already at the end of crossing the street, I get back to CRC most of the times if I was zoned out during crossing. I think it is because the feeling is already in the background and I have a subconsious sense that it is missing, but it is not strong enough to become conscious during more demanding tasks.
- main focus remains making the distinction normal = waking, unnormal = dream, but i think soon I will put more attention on those difficult situations

Another interesting thing: In my naps, I use to remain a slightly higher level of awareness than in normal sleep, as afterwards, I dont have the feeling of having been 'gone'/blacked out for some time, instead it is a smooth transition of waking thoughts to dreaming thoughts (often I also have the feeling afterwards that I retained awareness of my body sensation on the bed, but I am not sure, it might also just come shortly before waking up). So far I mostly woke up naturally at some point of the dream, but most times not lucid.
Might be a a good chance for WILD? in the REM core, i also think that I go straight into dream state after falling asleep, as I woke up from a dream only 5-15min after falling asleep several
times already.