DonJuan

All the sudden I found myself about 200 feet in the air and had that feeling you get when you know you took a ski jump and are way too bloody high. I looked in front of me and saw a bridge on the left which crossed a ravine that had waterfall in it and seemed endless. I was headed straight for this and felt like I was going to die.

Then I started to weight my options and recognized that on top of the trees I was flying over there were stumps that I could potentially land on. I landed and then climbed my way down limb by limb like a monkey to the bottom. At the bottom there was a family waiting for me with a dog. This dog was playing with a stick and for whatever reason this stick made me lucid. I watched the stick as it broke and rebroke itself into different angular formations. I didn't become ecstatic or really all that excited. I just knew I was lucid and knew my goal when becoming lucid was to just recognize lucidity and continue with that recognition. Unfortunately after a few second of watching the stick break and re-break, my visuals began to fade and I woke up. Bummer.

Notes: What is working, when I do it, is regardless of how I feel during the night, I need to get mentally and write down every detail of every dream. Then I can go back to bed like this with one thought in mind; I will become aware of when I am dreaming. My recall is better and I am recalling up to 4 full dreams a night. I still think I can improve upon this because I am getting lazy toward the later hours of the morning, which are likely most fruitful for lucidity. Ultimately these past 2 days I have woken up between the hours of 10am and 1pm and just rolled back over without any effort.

Good news is that I became lucid. I rewarded myself with a bar of chocolate. I am going to go shopping again today and line up my next bar of chocolate =)

Cheers