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Check-in #3
June 16 - June 23
Technique Used: SSILD
Dream Fragments: 8
Dreams: 8
Lucid: 1
Semi-lucid: 0
Incubated: 0
Recall Quality: Moderate
Vividness: Moderate
Dream Adventures Completed: 0
DV Tasks Completed: 0
Notes:
Good: Recall and vividness have gone way up from last week. I'm not where I'd like to be yet, but I think this may be my best week ever.
Bad: Bad dreams these past two nights. Last night, especially, was a nightmare fest. They weren't the kind of dreams that scare me awake, but they had some unpleasant imagery. Hopefully it was just the full moon (though I personally associate the full moon with magic and power, not anything negative). Also, after that first lucid I had, my level of lucidity has gone way down. No more false awakenings, either.
Going forward: IDK. I'd like to start doing WBTB/SSILD more regularly, but having had some sleepless nights this past week, I don't want to sacrifice sleep for it. If I could get to bed earlier, it might be possible, but I've been saying that all month... :horse:
All I really want at this point is to have some pleasant dreams. :dreaming: :cloud:
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Congratulations on the improved recall, but bummer about the nightmares. The best advice I can give on nightmares is to avoid stress as much as you can and hit bedtime with as positive, sunny, and confident of an outlook as you can.
I'd definitely avoid upsetting media right before bed. For me, that generally includes the news, which I pretty much avoid all of the time. :P So probably a better idea to read The Little Prince before bed rather than watch a slasher movie marathon.
Hopefully with the Supermoon fading away things will return to normal for you. Let me quite literally say, Pleasant dreams! And if there are any stresses in your life, I hope that they ease in the coming days. Let us know if we can help!
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Hi LadyLoki, how is the SSILD technique working out so far?
I am not always able to perform the cycles (being too sleepy or something), but when I do, am met with some success, whether it be a full on lucid, or FA, or even just heightened vividness. :P
As for the bad dreams, I've noticed that when I was eating more b6 enriched foods, I had a lot of violent dreams, which is not like me at all. They were so disturbing that I had to question myself about what I was doing differently. And sure enough, once I stopped eating that particular b6 food, the violent dreams went away.
Not sure if that'll help you, just a thought in case you're experiencing something similar.
