October 26, 2015: Read by candlelight last night and was sleepy enough for bed by 10:30pm. Woke up naturally at 3am. However, I then struggled to fall asleep again until well into the morning -- I think it was after 8am that I finally passed out. I did try FILD though, and may have maintained some awareness while going into REM. I have a memory of hearing loud bangs, and then hypnagogic imagery that transformed into a sort of cartoon-like roller coaster. I was trying to hold onto awareness in this strange cartoon dream, but I didn't seem to have a body, sooo...that was tricky!

When I woke up at 10:40am, I knew I'd had a dream just prior to waking, but in the act of trying to remember it, I instead remembered a totally different dream from earlier on. In THIS one, I would say that I was near-lucid. I understood that I could make certain people appear just by expecting them to. I was also concerned about the dream scenes shifting around too much, so I kept focusing on the details of my environment in an attempt to ground myself (I'd also stomp my feet, etc). HOWEVER -- I didn't know that I was in a dream. Rather, I believed I was in a different dimension. Haha!