LukeSid

One small dream Tuesday. I felt ill again, when I woke and the dream wasn't "right there" in front of me...it came back only after laying quietly and patiently.

04.55 AM A "BBC" presenter (who, at first, I thought I recognised, but I didn't really) standing in a studio and looking increasingly confused and uncomfortable (as they sometimes do) as music played increasingly faster???? Is there a hidden message in that Ed?

Last night
3.00 AM Feeling a bit ill...got nothing

4.45 AM Small dream about eating from a platter of seafood (not a great lover of seafood) I was presumably eating something fishy but they looked like small pearl-coloured M&M's

For the past several nights, I've diligently practised memory and awareness but the nights have been disappointing. When I looked out before retiring last night I noticed a full moon. I casually wondered whether that affects dreams and, sure enough, when I Googled this morning, I immediately got this;-

Can't sleep? The full moon could be disturbing your dreams - Life & Style - NZ Herald News

Dream Views is already full of this topic so it's nothing new. It apparently takes aprox 5 nights to go from 95% waxing (looking full) to 95% waning (still looking full) the actual 100% full moon this month is 19th, so tonight should be interesting.

Of course, for that theory to work, my best times would presumably be a new moon. I had my first lucid on the night of 6th Sept ...the optimum new moon was 5th @ 1% and the 6th was 2% (waxing) My second lucid was on the night of the 11th Sept @ 37% (waxing) so that kinda makes a dent in the theory...but the moon's phase goes into my notebook from now on.

I love what you can learn form dream research. When I was whinging (as I do) on a blog called "Maybe I'm border-line epileptic" on 23/6 snoop replied with "It sounds like attention deficit to me, at least the way you've explained it." I Googled it, was slightly miffed, replied a bit tersely and didn't click "like" I now think snoop's right and I apologise and I've clicked "like".

We can be "slightly" dyslexic or autistic or have "slight" attention-deficit. My wife reads books for hours...I read no longer than a few paragraphs. I skim through everything, just picking out something here or there to note or reply to. I start biographies from when they're famous...skipping the early chapters...I have occasionally read a book from the ending and skipped backwards...and I learn ADA, memory etc in bits, skipping from one to the other...never absorbing the whole subject in one go. Here, we learn about ourselves