this is very interesting. i've been experimenting, and found that usually if i smoke cannabis or drink heavily, i remember few, if any dreams (never a lucid).
so, last weekend was a staff christmas party, with free booze.. i couldn't pass on that so i got loaded, expecting the night to be a write-off as far as dream work. i was so drunk, but i remember doing one reality check on the way home (after we got pulled over for me throwing real estate flyers out the window, but that's another story)..
anyways, i'd only had two or three borderline lucid dreams previously.
so, i wake up in the middle of the night feeling like shit. go grab a glass of water, and go back to sleep. i had THREE lucids! it blew me away. and the best part is, they were the clearest yet.
the first one, i woke up, laid on the 'vibrational theshold' for awhile, and followed the hypnagogic imagery into a restaurant, where i focused on various characters and gained almost complete lucidity (as in 'everyday' detail).
i think the alchohol just loosened me up. probably a combination of that, and not having huge expectations that night. the week previously, i'd been trying really hard to have a lucid.
interesting certainly, but i'd rather not have to get drunk everytime i want to LD. it'd be too damn expensive..
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