A brief update: I am still working on consistently and repeatedly exerting reality checks throughout the day, and normalizing my sleep schedule.

As much as I hate to admit it, the next five months are going to be extremely busy for me. I've been trying to hold onto the resolve that began in December but the unforgiving waking life yields no compromise. Worry not, for I still continue to record my dreams each night and still in the back of my mind yearn for that lucid dream. But alas, duty calls and I must tend to my studies and my job to such an extent that the progress I hope for will unwillingly be out of reach once again. Even so, I vow that the postponement of this venture will be vindicated one glorious day.

I am in no way giving up what I have learned/experienced, nor am I letting myself fall into a "dreamless" sleep. Simply, this post is a reckoning, that progress is still to be made- however long it takes.

~Sweet dreams~