February 4
So, over the past few days I've been experimenting a little bit. I was reading through my dream journal and noticing it looked a little bare over the past few days. I felt a lot closer to getting lucid when my dream recall was really high, so on Saturday night, instead of repeating: 'I will have a lucid dream tonight' as I fell asleep, I thought, 'I will remember my dreams.' I woke up at 4:20am, and was able to remember two dreams. I wrote them down, and then told myself to remember my dreams as I fell asleep again. When I woke up only 2 hours later, I remembered three more dreams! I did this again Sunday night and Monday night, and strangely, the same thing happened every night. I woke up around 4am every time, able to remember 2 dreams, went back to sleep, repeating to myself that I would remember my dreams, and then in the morning I remembered a whole bunch more! Tuesday night went a little differently. When I woke up at 4 I wrote down what I could remember, but when I went back to sleep, I wasn't thinking about recalling my dreams, and when I woke up again this morning, I only got a few images, not even fragments. It seems like my dream recall is directly influenced by how much I focus on it while falling asleep. Anyway, now that I know I can recall my dreams well (as long as I focus on it) my next goal will be to increase my awareness in my dreams. To do this, I have created a little challenge for myself. For the next 5 or 7 days (depending on how well things go) I'm going to take one dream fragment and describe it in as much detail as I can, and post it on here. Maybe by the end of the week I'll have another lucid dream!