 Originally Posted by Morten
I just wanted to let you know that I had another lucid dream last night! 
I had a high level of awareness, I was completely aware that everything, sounds, visions, smells, feelings, were constructed by my brain. I stabilized the dream several times by touching the grass, rubbing hands, look closely at stuff etc., but my vision often became blurry, and I had to stabilize over and over again. I'm just wondering if I did something wrong since I had to stabilize so often?
No you didn't do anything wrong. Lucid dreams don't always start out perfect, but you did right by touching the grass and looking at things. Some verbal commands might be useful in the future if you come across something like this again. I also heard (but haven't tried YET), that snapping your fingers is good. I like stabilization techniques that involve more then one sense. Like if you snap your fingers while looking at them, you have sight, sound, and touch all in one. On the rare occasion that you find the need to stabilize more than once, it's good to have a few extra tricks up your sleeve. 
 Originally Posted by Morten
Update since last class:
I have had one lucid dream since last class. The one described above. Still doing RCs every day, and my dream recall is still good although it has changed a bit lately. I usually woke up several times throughout the night, found my pen and my dream journal, and wrote down the dream I just had. Now I still wake up, but I just tell myself that I have to remember the dream in the morning, and I go back to sleep. I do this with every dream I have, and I can usually remember 2, 3 or 4 dreams in the morning.
It works quite well, but I thought it might be a bad idea since my mind is not on lucid dreaming when I go back to sleep but on remembering the dream. Any thoughts about this? 
That's a 6 of one, half a dozen of the other. While it's better to write down your dreams for recall than to simply try to remember them, the act of writing in between cycles might wake you up too much. Then again, there are some beliefs that forcing your mind to remember details in between cycles is good brain exercise for recall. I think gab mentioned something about remembering specific key-words from each dream.
At any rate, well done on the 2 lucids last month! I look forward to working with you again Morten.
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