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So I've decided to do a 30-day challenge of using the SSILD technique. I have experimented with the technique before with somewhat mixed success. So this time I'm going to use nothing but SSILD for the next 30 days and record how many LD's and FA's I get. So here we go:

Day 7

I went to bed at 12:30 and set my alarm for 6:00. When my alarm went off, I woke up, but I soon fell back to sleep before I could even do the cycles. I did have one dream, but my recall was shattered by my parents barging in my room at 8:30. Here's what I remember:

I was in some city with my college pastor and his wife. I think it was like Germany or something, but I don't remember. I was carrying around this massive iPad/tablet computer that was the size of a small flatscreen TV and probably about 20 pounds. We went into some water park, and as they went on this one ride, I decided to stay outside so my tablet wouldn't get wet. /*Gap here*/ I was playing/in some game like Lego Island where everything was made of Legos. I had to fly some helicopter and shoot down this dinosaur.

After I woke up at 8:30, I tried to get back to sleep, but I found I couldn't - or at least I though I couldn't, because I then woke up at 9:30! Aggravated, I decided to stay up for an hour watching random YouTube videos on my phone. At about 10:20, I did the SSILD cycles and went back to sleep. I woke up at 11:00 with no recollection of a dream. Mad that I couldn't even induce a lucid after doing the napping technique, I got up stormed out of my room. I then woke up at 11:45. Yes, it was an FA. At least that's something...

Day 7: LD - 0, FA - 1
TOTAL: LD - 4, FA - 2

I don't really remember anything from my dreams save for that one involved my crush and her friends and took place at school. I was frustrated that I couldn't fall asleep until 2 or 3 in the morning and my alarm still didn't wake me up (despite me making it louder).

If anyone has tips on falling asleep or just making oneself tired, let me know. I'm trying to do an FILD, but I'm never tired enough.

Yay, i think i did a ToTM!I'm in my house, playing minecraft. I get bored quickly, so i go out, grabbing a random DS and Wii (i don't have those) and i drop them. The DS doesn't have a scratch, but the wii breaks. As my usual rush of logic kicks in, i think "WTF? My Wii is heavier, so it shouldn't have been broken.... I might be dreaming... I'll check later". I drop the DS down my LONG staircase, and it still doesn't break. I go get it and while i return i think"Ok, that's 3 signs im dreaming, if i find another one i'll check". So out i go seeking another sign, into some kitchen like place i don't have, until i (drum roll.... wait for it!) think "Oh f**k this lets check now."I RC and it works. (again, drum roll...) My mom appears. I inmediatly try kicking her, but she is the invincible one and she said "Sorry for what i did that dream, but i wanted decorations put up in my room". Thinking my subconsious was crazy at this point, i agreed only for practicing summoning. After about a min, she's happy and punches me, while saying she won't do "that" again (from the other entry).I go out and find a mirror. I tried avoiding it, but i saw inside it and found myself without any distortion whatsoever. I wake up around here.

Dream 1

My mum has a house party and a remember a famous person comes however I can't remember who it was

Dream 2

I was choosing ps2 games to play, then James Bond turned to real life in the dream, I kept killing my friend

Dream 3

My friend asked if me and someone else could turn the lights on for the school when we walked out. He told us where it was, we seen where to turn it on but couldn't be bothered. Then the person I was with sprayed some dangerous spray in my eye, it burned really bad!

Dream 4

I was walking with someone back to their house, they then decided to get the bus. Then changed their mind, we went back to their house and decided to chill and watch TV. She was nice but very moody

had new house and baby neighbour was nice old lady i was helping her hang out washing then was shopping .Then in parents house but there house looked same as house i currently live in .its gone dark and i want to go home but dont know the way properly im waiting for someone to come and show me the way

Dream recall from today's nap, had a bit of problem falling asleep for some reason(maybe it was too hot).

I was loking around from the balcony, then somebody called me from the streets and i went there, almost instantly i was down there and we were talking about something while pigeons were wandering around. Then i went back and was instantly back at the balcony. Then it faded out.
I wake up with closed eyes, attempt to DEILD, but don't really works, i get up and i have sensation that i am dreaming, then i wake up again with same sensation. I get up from the bed and dream shortly destabilizes, i fall and for a split second i see weird kinda egyptian eye-like symbol in black and white, then i somehow fall and dream stabilizes, but in a second i wake up.

1. [Lucid?]
I seem to remember becoming aware and suddenly got really excited then woke up. I did not perform any reality checks that I remember, I keep seeing a hand but I think that was from a previous dream.

I know I kind of woke up in the middle of the night. It was something conceptual, seemed more like an NREM thoughts memory than like REM dream, and to confirm that it was probably NREM, I was too groggy to follow through with writing it down. I remember I tried though: I remember lying there and trying to recall, and I had some of the concepts in my mind, I think the subject was dreams, but don't recall. Anyway, I never managed to actually write the concepts down, and I suspect even if I had given how groggy I was, they probably would have made little sense in the morning.

In the morning I woke up with a sinus headache second morning in a row, and no dream recall, but at least non-groggy.

My cousin and I with some of his buddies are kind of like characters in GTA. We are going down the freeway in the one’s car, and then he hits the nitrous and we are going at the speed of sound, and I can feel the incredible wind, sound, and speed. At this time, I was thinking we would die, so I started praying to Jesus. When we turned into the street that held our destination, which was a pseudo train station/civic center we got out of the car. As soon as we got out of the car, there was a truck coming behind us with a bomb in it (don't know how we knew), and it was like a minigame, seeing if we could get away from it. We all escaped unscathed and we started cheering and hugging each other. Then only my cousin and I walked into this train/civic center. We started walking, and I began to see many people from waking life. First, I saw two people from my church. There was this street which seemed to have a few school buses when we got out of the center, and I remember studying my cousin's profile. He had the same hair he has in waking life, same jeans as waking life, and the same Nike high tops. As I walked down into this courtyard from the street, I saw tons of people from my school. First to greet me was my friend from Italian class. She gave me a hug and told her friend "This is my favorite 16 year old". In waking life, my Italian class is one year older than me, because I skipped a year. I’m still one grade lower than the kids in my Italian class. I keep finding so many continuities in the dream world that come from my waking life, like my cousin’s features and my conversation with my friend from Italian class. I noticed that my friend from Italian class had braces. I then see my Italian teacher there, and she gives me a hug. We start talking in Italian on how our school’s trip to Italy was (and they are actually in Italy right now as I type this). So, it seems that I actually have a memory of things happening in waking life. The scene then changes from the courtyard to my Italian classroom. My whole Italian class from the previous year was in there. I begin to have a conversation with my one classmate on if I improved my Italian from last year. My teacher asked me if I needed to review anything for this year. I was then eating pretzels in class, and was making silly faces to my classmates. Then this one girl in my grade, who doesn’t even take Italian, showed up and started asking questions about the class. At no point did I become lucid, which seems crazy with all the continuities and hints to my real life. However, it seems that I need to improve on reality checks. Maybe whenever I see someone I know, I can do a quick check and ask myself “am I dreaming?”.

I was at work, and remember running errands for my boss. I also had to put a bird's eye map on the website, to show people where our building was. I had to somehow take the photo myself xD;;;
Another employee needed help with delivering boxes, so I went to help her. I first went to let my boss know that I was going to go, but saw her on the phone. So I thought I'd go quickly, and help the other, and then come back with the hope I wouldn't be missed in that time.
I then came back and made everyone a cup of tea (Because they're obsessed, even more so than me! xD)

Had to stay up all night because some friends of school slept over at my house.
I did a lot of awesome awareness training and I finally found out that I'm not doing ADA to get lucid but rather to increase my overall life quality...life is just more intense if you are aware of all the sensations.
Maybe this will help the awareness to carry over into my dreams.

So for tonight I'm gonna continue my "Don't even try to get lucid" method and hope that my subconscious will force me to do a RC.

Sorry if it's a bit much to read, this is my first DJ

When I woke up from this dream I couldn't remember it at first, I knew it was one of the greater dreams I had in a while but It just couldn't come to mind. After sitting for a minute thinking hard telling myself to remember it, I eventually did.

I was in some kind of zoo. The entire place was like a giant boardwalk/forest kind of thing with huge trees. People could stay in tree house type rooms and live there or at least stay overnight from what I could tell. Somehow I wandered off down the boardwalk and walked through a random door thinking it was someone's home. It was completely dark and as I walked to the center of the poorly lit room I heard a growl and then a huge roar. Apparently it was a huge Lion pen and the one in it jumped at me (the walls of the enclosures are giant trees but there was also two small trees in the center of this one) for a short time I was just yelling running in and out of the trees in the center or the room to avoid the lion because it was blocking the door. It moved out of the way and I finally ran out but sadly the door got bigger and the lion was able to run out after me. I turned a corner and up some wooden stairs (I think this was the entrance to one of the tree houses you could stay in) but I tripped and turned around and the lion was jumping at me over and over trying to bite me growling and snarling at me but somehow something invisible was blocking it an inch from my face and all I could do was yell at the top of my lungs.

Suddenly I felt weird and to what I'm guessing happened was a false awakening but instead I was awoken by my parents telling me I had a nightmare and that I was yelling. When I sat up I was actually in one of the tree house rooms. The dream skipped a bit but I was till in this tree house (In it was my Girlfriend, some random boy I hated the minute I saw his face even thought of course I can't remember it, my parents and from what I could tell the boys dad. My girlfriend was ignoring me from some reason, the boy as well) Automatically I knew the boy was supposed to be doing something off by himself but when I walked into what was my room in this tree house it was trashed with clothes and him and my girlfriend were laying there watching TV. For some reason all I could do was throw myself down and say "This isn't right" so I left to go ask my mom why the boy was there and all she told me was he wasn't supposed to be in my room, he was supposed to be somewhere else but the dream skipped again.

This time I was on a dock (Still in this tree house/zoo forest type world. The tree houses and animal enclosures were off to the center of the area but it was like a giant island surrounded by a big clear water river and on the other side was jungles and mountains) I was looking at this little cottage on the dock with my friend Brianna and somehow even thought it had no windows or doors it was filled to the top with absolutely clear water. I was walking in and out of it quickly, it slowed you down when you walked in but when you walked out you were dry. I thought the water was pretty neat so without control or thinking I jumped backwards off the dock into the water head first without taking a breath. It wasn't such a great idea when I realized this time I couldn't breath and Brianna was yelling my name from the dock. (For some reason even thought I couldn't breath I refused to move or swim up to catch my breath) Brianna dived in a grabbed my arm to pull me up and all I could say was a simple thank you. I then woke up and the dream was over.

Standing in my room looking out of my window on the road across the field. It's dark and it's snowing heavily. I see front lights paving the way for a bus. I know that there will be two girls, one of which I knew a long time ago and the other her friend, getting out of that bus to come hang out with me. I wonder why the bus doesn't stop by the red house at the road going down the hill to my driveway, and instead just keeps driving out of sight. A few seconds later, I see it reversing back up to the red house and the two girls get off. I watch the two from my window as I get more and more anxious. I turn the light out in my room so they won't see me spying, but I am quickly distracted by my bedroom being a mess. In panic I clear as much of the mess I can in a hurry and notice I'm wearing old unacceptable clothes. I try to be calm trying to find proper clothes to put on as my mother calls from the bottom of the stairs "Mikkel I think you have guests", while on the inside I'm spiraling down into a pool of awkward anxiety, almost at the edge of having an anxiety attack.

When I get down in the living room, a long table has been set up and the two girls are sitting by the end. I reach out to give the brunette - the one I knew once - a hug, when she had awkwardly reached out her hand for a handshake. "Oh well okay" she says and laughs. I sense she's just as awkward and confused as I am, while her friend just seems kind of sulky. I sit down facing the brunette, our eyes catch and I wake up.

I was in the middle of a field which had random fires and holes missing from it. I was with some random people, everyone was panicking because we was about to get bombed by an air raid. To survive the air raid we had to go into sleeping bags and lay still, my sleeping bag was filled with water. I don't recall the actual air planes but they must of spread napalm everywhere because I could feel intense heat, that's when i realized what the water was for... to cool me down. The sleeping bag was black possibly dark blue but the inside was a light blue. After it was all over and I emerged from my sleeping bag I was in my old primary school classroom, the one when I was in year 6, exactly how I remember it. I awoke straight after this, it was quite frightening and I found myself in a bit of a panic until I realized it was only a dream.

I am with my family at the Mission City Orthodontist building I used to go to when I younger. The building itself had a different layout than the one I went to in real life and looked a little bit more futuristic but I somehow knew it was the same place. Apparently we came here so my brother could have his mouth x-rayed and examined in preparation for his braces. However, as we are all waiting for the the examination to be over, my mother disappears. The orthodontist finally returned with an x-ray in hand but he looked very disturbed. He proceeded to show us the x-ray he had with him, however, the x-ray was not of my little brother's jaw but of his hand. The x-ray showed there was a large red mass of some sort in his hand. The orthodontist explained that this mass was a malignant tumor. He then stated that he was fully capable of surgically removing this tumor but was unsure how successful it would be at stopping the cancerous growth from spreading. And, in fact, was unsure if it already had spread or not.

My mother walked back into the room and I tried to explain to her what had just transpired. However, every time I tried she would cut me off or told me to stop. I told her it was extremely important but she didn't care. I was furious at her but also distressed at the news we received so I decided to leave and blow off some steam. When I finally left the building and shut the door screamed "god damnit".
The last thing I remember is taking the car and driving around for quite a long period of time.