Sleeping schedule:
- About 11 to 6:30 every day. (I keep track via my Fitbit.) I usually get 7 hours a night and maybe once a week get 8 hours. I wake up 3x a night no matter what.

Reality Checks:
- My phone periodically asks me, "Are you dreaming?" I stop and look around, try to remember what I've been doing to that point, etc.
- Look at my hands (I think this doesn't work because I don't do this during the day without prompting)

Dream Signs:
- Celebrities. I don't even live in LA any more and celebrities/movie stars/TV stars are everywhere in my dreams, playing nearly all the roles.
- A type of flying I call "weak flying." I fly all the time in my dreams (without being or becoming lucid!) but often it's "weak" -- closer to a putt-putt motor than Superman-type flying. Good for getting short distances.
- Water: torrential rains, rising tides, floods. (I've heard this is a sign of overwhelming emotion, but I generally don't feel emotional waking up!)

Short-Term Goals:
- To have a lucid dream
- To get some answers to questions
- To become more aware during my day the way I want to be more aware at night

Long-Term Goals:
- To use more dream material in my writing
- To have the feeling of control in my day and night
- To meet a dream mentor

Lucid/Dream Recall History:
- None. Or should I say, I think I had one once, over a decade ago, where I read a newspaper headline, realized I couldn't read it, thought I must be dreaming, and woke up.

Current Technique:
- MILD. I drift off to sleep with my mantras. I wake up several times during the night and say the mantras when going back to sleep.
- I'm transcribing my dream journals every day (or so), and paying attention to the dream signs. So far this hasn't helped, but I'm making a "key word list" of the biggest ones.