Sjagy's Workbook

Reality Checks:
- Recall how i got here and increase awareness each time i get concerned about looks
- Double check signs/writing

Dream Signs:
- Colossal structures (towers, ships, planets; and the distinct feeling of perspective they give that i dont get in waking life)
- Anarchy, conflict (end-of-the-world kind)

(sample size: about 30 dj entries)

Short-Term Goals:
- Improve dreamrecall - more details, more continuity/ less fragments
- Improve awareness of surroundings and sense of self
- Stop getting waked from deep sleep so I dont feel like a steel trap rest of the day

Long-Term Goals:
-Inducing lucid dreams at will
-WILD tech
-vivid recall
-Higher sensory and conscious awareness

Lucid/Dream Recall History:
- ~2 dreams per night, mostly a continuation of the nights "main" story (places barely change or i "clearly" know that they are just around the corner from the previous one, often same people accompany me throughout the night with little variation), sometimes as fragments, sometimes completely connected into a smooth film. Then the next night is completely unrelated. After journaling im almost sure to remember everything the next morning too, if I dont then it will likely be blank for days until i can remember something and journal/tell it again.

Had four lucid experiences for what I know: first after a surgery while in the hospital, next one from a random dream without even trying, other after a party and a semi lucid experience likely to substances

Current Technique:
working with WILD

Spoiler for TL;DR:

Last two nights I had set alarms to practice my recall and WILD, that didint go as epic as planned: First night after sleeping for 4,5 hours woke up at 7 30am to terrible car traffic, trying to relax ended in lots of frustration, still fell asleep eventually with some dream fragments in return. Got some sound reducing earplugs for the next night and decided to intensify my training, starting 2 am and adding alarms after 3, 4.5 and 6 hours of sleep. I remember snoozing all three of them. Well, atleast got two and a half DJ entries from that.... and woke up at 1 pm.

Conclusion would be that the me trying to get up after too few hours of sleep might not give a crap about dreaming, and in general would be counterproductive

I remember clearly an interesting thing, that both nights, I was actually already awake lying in bed before the alarms started rining (immediately turning them off cause, hey im already awake, but cant remember even considering why I set them off in the first place), so I assume they hit right after my sleep cycle ended. Now my question is should I aim to get up right after a sleep cycle or set it off earlier and try to get up during REM ?