I've been pretty busy for these last couple of days, hence the lack of updates, so I'm posting something now.

Friday night was nothing special - I turned in at a reasonable hour, at around 12:30 am, woke up at 8am with no lucid dreams and patchy dream recall.

Last night was more interesting - I had my latest lucid dream.

To give some background, that day I had my first experience of Crossfit - a high intensity form of fitness (google it if you want to know more). I had the most intense workout in my life and I thought I would pass out. It really pushed me to my limits, and just beyond. The result was that afterwards I was operating on a sort of high, like an adrenaline rush that people might get after a parachute jump or something. FOr the rest of the evening I could still feel the after-effects of the adrenaline.

This had an impact on my sleep and my dreams. I experienced intense hypnagogic imagery as I drifted off to sleep, while using my usual lucidity-inducing technique. I won;t go into the details of my dream, but they went crazy. They were so crazy that on two occasions I knew that I had to be dreaming. One of those occasions is when I was in a supermarket with a woman I know and I bumped into a family member. I then bumped into a clone of this family member, then a third clone, until I was surrounded by identical copies of this character. So then it clocked. I went lucid, but the lucidity was short-lived as I was trying to get away.

The second time happened when I met some "bad guy" character who told me that he was going to set his bodyguard on me, who was Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan the Barbarian. From listening to dreamviews podcasts, I knew how to deal with adversarial DC's, so I tried to make friends with the evil Arnie, but I woke up shortly afterwards.

So that's it - my latest success. I only wish it could have lasted longer.