Last night, I decided I'd try FILD. I had heard of it and I found it quite interesting. I must admit I was a bit skeptical about it, since apparently the transition from the waking body to the dream body is clean, I mean, without any hypnagogic state or anything. Well, for this, I set an alarm at 4.30 am, after 5h of sleep. When I heard the alarm I quickly remembered my intention (the ringtone for the regular alarm is different than that I use for WBTBs and other midnight techniques, so I can tell one from the other easily). I stood still for a few seconds and then gently rolled over to switch the alarm off. I remembered a dream, but I didn't bother writing it down because I didn't want the lights to wake me up. I lay still for a few minutes, trying to relax as much as possible, and then started with the fingers. I don't know if I lost consciousness at any point, but a short while afterwards I found myself still doing the fingers thing. The whole thing had been confusing, so I thought I must be in a FA. I did the nose pinch and it failed. I did it again just to be sure, because I didn't know what other RCs to do in the dark. It failed again. I thought well, I'll go to sleep and try again if I wake up again.

I woke up naturally a while afterwards. I was feeling very sleepy and the memories of this awakening are quite blurry, I just know it was very brief, but I remember I thought of trying the FILD again. I started and then... blank.

Next thing I know, I'm awoken by the regular alarm. I had set it to prevent my sister's to wake me up with a start. I was quite disappointed because I was quite sure I had no memory from any dream, so I rolled over and thought how much the last night's loss of sleep had affected my recall. Just as I was thinking that, I started remembering a dream. I wrote it down before it could go away and I was flooded by the memories of two more dreams. It's funny when this happens, it is becoming the norm for me to remember morning dreams once I start waking myself up, and sometimes, even after getting out of bed.