I said I'd give an update when I either hit a breakthrough point or give up.

Well, I'm giving up.



The thing is, I was getting okay induction rates. Except... it changed a lot depending on the week, despite doing exactly the same thing technique wise each week, and for about the same amount of time. It's not that unexpected since it's known that a lot of things go into your "suitability for lucid dreaming" state, but I guess... I expected it to still be more predictable than it's been.

I will share some screenshots now of my results. I was originally intending to go into more detail about the experiment, and still might, but am distracted with various things atm and figured I would just share a basic overview for now for anyone who had been waiting.

This first screenshot is of the ~3 months over which I did the experiment. Each gap between gray vertical bars represents 3 days, each day represented separately with (potentially) an orange peak indicating how many lucid dreams were had that day. (Except the first few gaps -- they are thinner for some reason so only have space for 1/2 days each.)
Screenshot 2018-04-09 at 23.06.30.jpg

That's kind of hard to see long-term rate-changes, though, so I'll also include screenshots of that data, except smoothed out. By "smoothed out", I mean that for each row/slot/x-position, it's changed to not just show how many lucid dreams occurred that day, but how many lucid dreams occurred in the last Z days.

Here are the screenshots for varying values of Z:
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Smoothing value of 3:
Screenshot 2018-04-09 at 23.11.42.jpg

Smoothing value of 5:
Screenshot 2018-04-09 at 23.13.16.jpg

Smoothing value of 7:
Screenshot 2018-04-09 at 23.14.12.jpg

Smoothing value of 10:
Screenshot 2018-04-09 at 23.14.34.jpg
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At some points, I was getting ~4 lucid-dreams per week, which is quite good for me. But you'll see that each time, it would fluctuate back down shortly after.