April 14th
Yesterday I tried to meditate silently, but I was only ten minutes into it before I was interrupted by my extremely loud family returning home, and I did not have another chance to return to quiet meditation after that. I went to bed around 11:30, and I recall waking up sometime in the middle of the night, but I immediately fell back to sleep. I woke up again at 7:40. I think I vaguely remembered a dream,but it slipped away too quickly for me to write it down. I have an REM Dreamer (similar to NovaDreamer) that I put on at this point. It woke me up by flashing lights and emitting sounds at 8:20, at which point I remembered a very short nonlucid dream and wrote it down. I went back to sleep and woke up again at 9:50. I remembered another fragment and wrote it down, and then I knew I was up for the day. It will take some time to calibrate the REM Dreamer to the point where it is being incorporated into my dreams but not waking me up. I had wanted to try a WBTB/ WILD, but I did not set an alarm as I have done in the past and instead tried to wake up naturally.