Pretty dry all of June, but with generally fairly good recall. Practicing Illusory body/world and mindfulness most days, but nothing much at night, no WBTB.

Then I started reading Andrew Holocek's new book on LDing and Dream Yoga. I got to the mindfulness meditation chapter last night and it's brilliant, he really makes the spot-on observations about the relationship between mindfulness/attention/lucidity and mindlessness/distraction/non-lucidity. I get very excited as it resonates very strongly with what I believe about the nature of lucidity and how best to train it. His brief discussion of the "Lion gaze" is very instructive ("gaze of the dog": follows distraction [the stick thrown away from it] vs. "gaze of the lion": ignores the distraction and instead looks right to the source of it, the thrower)

Then I go to bed doing some of the Dream Yoga visualizations (red pearl in the throat, a red "AH" in the throat)

Then I get a near WILD at about 3 hrs into the night!
2016-07-14 near early WILD [remarkable!], long insomnia, late semi/almost-lucid - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I'm so excited by this I can't return to sleep (unfortunately!) I make it back to sleep eventually and get a near-LD, but the later dreams are more distracting.

Holocek has a really great way of phrasing things, and pointing out what's important. I think a fault in my practice is that it has become too serious. Lightening up, trying to recapture the "child's mind," seeing dreams as fun, will go a long way towards more frequent lucidity.

He finishes his mindfulness meditation chapter with: "So you want to be lucid at night? Meditate during the day." OK if that's not going to get me to daily meditation, nothing will!