Here's what happened with my fifth test of the Remee mask last night:
Went to bed around 11:45 pm, after setting a wake-up alarm to go off 4:25 hours later. While falling asleep, I repeated my intention to do RCs at appropriate times. When the alarm woke me up, I took the theanine tablet, turned on the Remee, put it in Nap mode, taped it to my forehead, and went back to bed about 4:30 hours after originally having gone to bed. The mask was comfortable, but I still had trouble getting back to sleep. Maybe half an hour after going back to bed, I took some more theanine. Tried to break a tablet in half, but it broke into unequal pieces, maybe two-thirds / one third. I took the larger piece and went back to bed.
I still wasn't asleep when the LEDs flashed the first time. Did an RC to be sure I really was awake, and concluded that I was. I ended up getting to sleep before the LEDs flashed again. I then had some long complicated non-lucid dreams, of which I don't remember a whole lot. However, I do remember at one point dreaming that I was trying to go to sleep [Should've done an RC!], but my wife had a bunch of friends over. They were all sitting on the bed in the master bedroom talking loudly. I went in and asked them politely to be a bit quieter. Then I realized I had the dream mask taped to my forehead, which was embarrassing. [Should have done an RC at that point, too, but didn't think to, unfortunately.]
I noticed the LEDs flashing probably about 4 or 5 more times during my sleep cycle. I did an RC each time, but concluded that none of them were FAs.
At some point in my sleep cycle I had to pee, so I was searching everywhere for a restroom. I kept finding them, but each time there was some weird reason I couldn't use them. Possibly the weirdest one was that in one restroom there was a handicapped guy trying to use a urinal. But, due to his handicap, the only way he could use it was for five or six assistants to help him. Each assistant had to hold a different part of his body and position it in a specific manner. For example, his legs had to be held way out, so they were almost horizontal. Anyway, even though he was only using one urinal, he, along with all his assistants, ended up blocking access to all the other urinals, as well as the stalls.
Later in the same dream, I found a row of free-standing urinals with some firefighters hanging out behind them. There was also a lot of firefighting clothing and equipment, such as fire hoses, all around. [Maybe the fire hoses symbolized how much I had to pee.] I got ready to pee in one of the urinals, but then looked down and saw that all the urinals were gone. Instead, I was about to pee into a firefighter's boot. That wouldn't have been a good idea, so I stopped myself. I asked them what happened to the urinals. They told me the police came and took them away. The absurdity of their answer made me realize I was dreaming. I told them the police must be pigs to have done that, and walked away. I went out a door and was walking down a sidewalk, when an attractive woman suddenly jumped on me and started passionately embracing me and stroking my body with her hands under my clothing. I responded by doing the same thing to her. But I still really had to pee, so I told her I needed to use the restroom before continuing. She said OK. [The fact that I didn't realize using a dream restroom wouldn't be helpful meant I'd lost lucidity.] I found a nearby restroom and used it. [Fortunately I only dreamed I was peeing, but didn't actually pee.] I then found the woman again, which caused me to regain lucidity. We continued where we'd left off for awhile. But I eventually lost lucidity again. [Don't remember what happened after that, but at some point I woke up and used the restroom IWL.]
I had a few dreams after that, but don't recall any of them very well. I also noticed the flashing LEDs a few more times, but doing an RC each time indicated they weren't FAs.
I probably had the LD with the woman on the sidewalk due to having watched the first half of Last Tango in Paris right before going to bed. Specifically, there's that scene near the beginning where the two main characters (played by Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider) suddenly grab each other and start having sex on the floor of a filthy unoccupied Parisian apartment.
I'm not at all sure the flashing of the mask's LEDs is what caused me to get lucid in this test, because I didn't notice any unusual lights before getting lucid. But it may not matter much. I'm pretty sure the mask helped me get lucid, if only indirectly. If it works, even in an unanticipated way, it's worth doing. The insomnia wasn't fun, though. Maybe next time I won't even do a WBTB, or at least one where I have to mess with the mask. I might just put on the mask when I first go to bed, with maybe a delay of 4 to 5 hours before the LEDs start flashing. Having to turn the mask on, set it to Nap mode, and tape it to my face seemed like it woke me up too much. Also, I didn't get enough exercise the day before, which sometimes gives me insomnia.
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