I took a higher dose of caffeine this time because I wanted to WILD on the back side of peek plasma levels. I added melatonin and menthol as an afterthought.

Dose: Pre-bed: A little Guinness WBTB: 4AM 200MG Caffeine, 5:41AM 1MG Melatonin, 6:05AM 2 tablespoons peppermint leaves in tea.
Side Effects: mildly upset stomach
Sleep Duration: 5hrs/1hr
WBTB: Yes 2(brief then 1 hrs 40min)
Lucid: Yes (sort of)
Vividness: Medium to high
Stability: Low
Dream Comments: I woke a little after 5am from a non vivid NLD about texting my friend Zack in the cart garage at a Wal-Mart. I lay down and stared at a celling fan when I woke up. I definitely could tell my tolerance to caffeine has been significantly lowered since I reduced my daily intake. I felt very awake and could tell that heart rate went up and started breathing faster.

Later the menthol gave me very strong sexual HI and made it very difficult to relax for awhile. Finally around 7AM I started going to sleep.

Ok now the interesting part. I had maybe 6 or 7 DILDs after this. The only problem was that as soon as I realized I was dreaming I would immediately wake up. Each time I would be still not moving and continue to WILD. I tried several tricks. Counting, repetitive "motion", focusing on the body, and SSILD. All were effective but with each DILD I still woke up. I don't remember the dreams because I didn't want to move to record them. I unsuccessfully tried to commit them to memory but they were just random little snippets anyway. Then, the alarm got me at 8am. (I had something I had to do at 9) I snoozed for a while but didn't have time to DILD before the next alarm. I really think that if I had had a few more hours to sleep I would have eventually got it. I may repeat this next Saturday morning only with a slightly smaller caffeine dose. Overall, I really think the menthol added that little extra "boost" and was quite pleased with the result.