Day 24:
Woke up from a nightmarish dream, did a few quick SSILD cycles followed by I think 1 long one before I fell asleep. Had one of my normal imagination dreams but at the end of it it turned more realistic and I was sitting in the front seat of a car with somebody driving me somewhere, suddenly they started breaking all the road rules which was weird because normally they were a good driver and when the car drove up on top of a line of cars at a traffic light I thought "what the hell are you doing! This has to be a dream!" and then I almost face palmed because "duh!" I did a reality check just to make sure and woke up!
But wait it wasn't a real wake up, it was an FA, everything was hyper realistic but my room wasn't quite right, I got up and stabilised but once I walked out of the room it destabilised very quickly and I woke up for real after about half a minute. Probably because I didn't have much REM left since I was already dreaming for a decent 30 ish minutes before this point.
I did SSILD after two more wake ups after that but the rest of my dreams were normal.
Since I can't say if it was SSILD related here are a couple of other things I was doing that day:
- I was "feeling the ground" as I walked most of the day, very in tune with my feet (this is a meditation but also a tai chi chuan thing)
- Before I went to bed I was reading on the forums about punishment induced lucid dreams and I thought it was pretty funny so I thought if I didn't get a DILD tonight I would have to eat an olive in the morning (I hate olives), I wasn't very serious about it but just the thought of having to do that did leave an impression. I also thought I'd have ice cream if I did DILD.
At the moment I don't think SSILD itself really causes FAs or DILDs, I think it's basically the same as the 61 point relaxation technique where you move your awareness through 61 points of the body, except here you move your awareness through just 3, the effect is the same though, it just gives the mind something to work on so that it stops flapping in the wind and becomes more focused and relaxed.
Anyway I'm eating ice cream right now. =P
Attempted Nights: 17
Total Attempts: ~24
Average Attempts per Night: ~1.4
WILDs: 2
DILDs: 1
FAs: 1
Other: 1
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