The last week or so I've been so awful about keeping my physical dream journal - I'm going to try to catch up tonight - been having lots of vivid dreams, but no lucids, except for a brief WILD - but that WILD has encouraged me so much that I can actually do it

I laid down, put on my sleepmask, and began focusing on the blackness in front of my eyes. I felt my body getting more and more numb, til finally I could hardly feel it. I was getting quite a bit of HI, random images and scenes and sometimes words and phrases.. I focused on it while telling myself every few seconds "you're dreaming", and then suddenly, I felt this shift, and it was like I dropped out of my body. I know Clairity talks a lot about the "shift" feeling, and I always wondered what exactly it would feel like, and if I'd know it when I felt it - well, I definitely did. The best way I can describe it is, imagine a door, on hinges in a doorway. Now imagine that instead of standing up, the door is horizontal. Now imagine you suddenly opened the door - that's what it felt like, like my body just suddenly dropped out from under me and swung down. As soon as that happened, I noticed I was in some sort of dream scene, I was holding out a stick in front of me, and i was standing up. I took a few steps, and then somehow zzzap, I was back in my body. I wasn't even that disappointed though, because I had definitely felt that shift. Now that I know it's possible and I can do it, I believe even more that I will do it again, and pretty soon I'll be having regular LDs.

That shift feeling was so cool, though I want to feel that again.