A while back I posted about consuming beer before bed and how it increased my dream recall. Well, I was out drinking again last night and I slept through the night without bothering to try to remember the dreams I was having. Then after sleeping for about 6 hours, I got up with a bad hangover and drank some cranberry juice and got back in bed. After lying in bed for a bit, falling in and out of sleep, I started to hear that loud static sound and all I could see was black then the sound faded away and I thought, "I'm probably asleep now" so I tried the plug-nose reality check and it worked! Then some hypnagogic imagery appeared and immediately after I found myself in a scene. I was rubbing my hands; telling myself I wanted more clarity and it worked; said I wanted a person to appear when I turned around and it worked. It was quite easy to manipulate my dream. I let the dream fade, and I found myself seeing black again, then the same thing happened over again: heard the static noise start up and fade, did the reality check, hypnagogic imagery appears, then I went into a scene and tried more things like spinning (which felt pretty cool).

I didn't imagine to have this much freedom in my first lucid dream! It was a blast.

Alcohol sure seems to have a great effect on dreams during the night from my experience.

I have one question: During the dream, I could feel my body lying in my bed, so I felt kind of limited in the movements I would make. So I tried to “imagine” making the movements, because I had a suspicious that if I really tried to move, my physical body would move and I would wake up. Is this true? The next time I’m in this situation, should I continue to “imagine” moving, or do what’s natural and move ignoring that I feel like I’m still lying in bed?

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