Went to bed at 11 last night; woke up at naturally at 3:30 (although I'm pretty sure it was my dog that woke me up.) I stayed awake for 30 minutes on the forums here and then went back to bed. I used SSILD again, and it was successful, but to an extent . I had a hard time looking with my eyes until I fell pretty softly into REM Atonia, probably farther into it than I had ever been consciously. I was able to visualize stuff so well. I tried to incubate me going to Angel Falls because that seemed like an awesome thing to do (TOTY), but I never really got there. I was using the mantra "I am lucid, I am aware." I think I need to review some more dream control stuff. I seem to recall gab saying something like when you can see the dream you should think yourself there. Other than that, do you guys think that perhaps I was just trying too hard to LD and I couldn't fall asleep? I finally gave up after an hour and a half. Is that reasonable or am I doing something wrong?
It really sucks how I killed my recall too. I can recall dreams from a month ago much, much better than I can recall the dream from this morning.
Cheers!