I'm new to the class, so I guess I'll just make this.

I usually go to bed at 10 on the weekdays, but I'm considering changing that to 9 so that I get an even 9 hours of sleep so my normal wake time of 6:15 is right after a rem cycle and won't interfere with that. On weekends, I have a tendency to go to bed at 11pm-1am, but I'm attempting to change that to 9 as well so I have a more constant sleep schedule.

Ever since I've been doing the mantra "I will wake up after every dream", I wake up after about 3 hours and every hour and a half after that. I remember my dreams most of the time, and if I don't things throughout the day will remind me of those that I forgot which I'll think about a lot so as to not lose them.

My reality checks include willing to float up, reading and rereading text and clocks, plugging my nose and trying to breathe as well as looking at my hands.

The main reason I want to lucid dream is to figure out the voices I hear in my head. They aren't malicious or localized, but they are seperate from my normal consciousness so I would like to be able to personify that and speak to it. On top of that I'd like to use it as a creative venue to create artwork and music.

Every night, I leave my dream journal to my right so I can roll over and immediately start writing with my left. I find that if I don't move my legs my recall stays with me. When I write my dreams down, I don't usually write them down in complete sentences; I usually just write down important details and later flesh them out in more detail as I can type much faster than I can write and I'd rather not spend 10 minutes writing every hour and a half throughout the night.

Hopefully the techniques I learn in this class helps me throughout my journey into lucid dreaming!