January 25
Another semi-lucid this morning! I call it that because I knew I was dreaming on some level, however I never really took control of my own thoughts and actions, and my dreaming mind kind of just took over. I woke up at 4:07, sitting up in bed. (Literally when I woke up, I was sitting with my legs crossed on the bed, facing my clock. This has never happened before and it was pretty weird.) I realized what time it was and went back to sleep. Sometime after I went back to sleep, I ended up half waking up, but I managed to stay still, and tried to hold onto the dream I was having. Somehow it worked, and my awareness got pushed back inside of the dream! I'm quite surprised that it did, actually, because I've never been able to do this before. I think it could possibly be classified as a DEILD? Anyway, upon re-entering the dream, I wasn't lucid, but then I got dropped into the park, (again lol) and realized I was dreaming. I believe I was fully lucid at this point. I walked around, marveling again at how real everything was. However, I wasn't really trying to engage all my senses, and I forgot to remind myself that I was dreaming, so I lost my full lucidity. What was kind of funny though, was through the whole second half of the dream (which was extremely long btw) I kept thinking: 'Oh it's 9 or 10 o'clock, I should probably get up now, but if I do, the dream will be gone.' When I did wake up it was 10 after 7.