I didn't go back to sleep today like I should have after taking my daughter to school. My stomach was cramping from the antibiotic and I couldn't relax.

I read over the induction techniques, and while I have read them before, reading them again made some of the information click in a new way. Funny things is that I do a lot of that stuff already, all the time.

WILD, DEILD, and WBTB are things I practice nearly every day and have for years long before I ever heard of Lucid Dreaming. When I wake I love drifting back into my dream or allowing a new one to form.

Currently I wake up at 6:30 A.M. (or 6:25 if I need to pee), and after my alarm goes off I allow myself to drift back to sleep and the dreams I left. Because of this I have a second alarm set at 6:55A.M. to make sure I get up in time and get my daughter ready for school. Probably two-thirds of the time I am able to drift either back into the same dream or have a completely new one, with varying degrees of lucidity and recall. Some dreams are epic, some are not even memorable, and I don't always fall back to sleep or drift deep enough for dreaming. Still, this is my normal routine, so DEILD is common.

Like Ophelia, I also WBTB some days, and this makes WILD very easy to achieve.

I notice I don't have any issues with Sleep Paralysis like some people do, and I don't know if my mind is just that calm or if the position I sleep in helps. While I sleep horizontally in my bed at night, when I come home to fall asleep I use a chair in the living room which allows me to lie in a reclined position. The wall air conditioner drowns out any outside noise and the cool air makes it comfy to have a thick horse blanket over me. This is usually when I have my most epic dreams.

Today I did not go back to sleep. I had a great dream during my first sleep period but I couldn't hold on to it. Even as I tried to stabilize the memory or reenter the dream by holding on to the images I could recall clearly I could feel the dream slipping away by the second, as though I wasn't meant to remember that one. I know I dreamed because I can remember...doing something...having a long and involved dream...but I simply can not remember it at all beyond the one scene which I posted in the Share Your Dream From Last Night In One Sentence.

The one image involved being at my old office, before the remodel, and being in the copy room. I got mad and threw a box of black binding combs against the table where the box burst open, scattering the binding combs everywhere. I have no idea what could possibly make me that mad. Still, being at my office is a recurring dream sign that I'm used to seeing.

More later.