Day 12. Ended up staying up all night,near 5-6 AM I began falling asleep,and my gf waking me up,as we were both trying to stay awake so we could fix our sleeping schedules and goto the movies Thursday(tomorrow). Eventually she wanted to goto the store,so she scould make breakfast,and of course,I fell asleep in bed until she came back. This was no longer than about an hr,but I had about 2 short ones and 1 'average' one. I had a few times to lucid,and didnt,but after Dolphins advice,they seemed to stand out more. During and after the dream. also stumbled across some reality checks that I could begin trying from them. And not sure what to take from some. In the last dream,there was a point where I and a dream character I didnt recognize,stared at each other long and hard without saying anything. Last time I did this,I had my first lucid,no luck this time,but atleast its happened again and had that same.. I guess 'feeling' when it happened. In this same dream,I was fiddling with some light switches,which can be RCs but arent 'one of mine' I do,ever,but will begin doing them along with the mirror RC whenever im near a bathroom. Havent read about the light switch rc in awhile now,so that was odd,but who knows. In the 2nd dream,its was abit hazy but basicly I dont remember being lucid,but I do remember conscious thought of whether I wanted to 'go this way,or that way'. Nothing really as far as why,but just the ability to choose. which seemed odd,since I was moving pretty fast,but everytime I passed a option to turn,or split paths,I would be choosing. In the last dream,I just find it interesting. When I arrived,I remember a dream character asking me about my 'birthday party' which should had been a 'wtf' moment,since I havent thrown a birthday party since I was about 13? ,but I thought for a 2nd,and recalled a vivid memory of a birthday party from the night before(day 11 aware I dremt,but cant remember them),to the point I was embarrassed for the people to know about it when the person I showed up with started explaining,that I cut him off from explaining. Today I recalled my dreams backwards. Last,to first. to see if it would help me retain the dream better,as I usually back track my previous events to question my reality along with counting fingers RC. seemed to work well,aslong as I didnt stress over remembering something that wasnt too meaningful. Depending If plans tomorrow for movies are still in place,I may or may not attempt to wild tonight.