Adventures on the Other Side

Tried another WILD session as a nap starting at 10:56 am. (I'm a polyphasic sleeper so I'll probably have quite a few attempts of this sort.)

Just a fragment ...

Someone is showing me around some sort of institution ... there's a woman in something like a nurse's uniform tending a garden across the street. My guide mentions something about a "forest" ... but we're on a city street with people and children walking around.

Then I drifted into a dreamless sleep and came out gently 45 minutes later, not even realizing that I had slept until I checked the clock.

My first WILD this morning!

I slept about 5 hours, from 11 to 4 am. After I got up, I spent some time on DreamViews, especially studying Mzzkc's Comprehensive WILD Guide.

Around 6:15 I felt sleepy and decided to lay down and try what I'd learned.

I'm already well-practiced at the 61-point relaxation technique from extensive yoga nidra practice over the last several years. So I began with that, then chose my breath as a passive anchor. I just allowed myself to drift toward sleep. I stumbled a few times around the sleep paralysis stage but I tried to apply what I learned here.

After about 10 minutes, I found myself in a dream - and I knew I was dreaming!

There was no sense of excitement, and the dream was poor quality, it only lasted a few moments, and I had no control ... but it was definitely lucid.

I find myself looking at a wall of bookshelves, full of multi-colored books of many shapes and sizes. The book titles are blurry and out of focus.

I think "This dream is out of focus. I'd better put my glasses on."

I put my glasses on, and the books come - slowly - into focus. "How interesting!" I think. "These glasses work even in my dream!"

I remove the glasses and put them on again several times, just observing the interesting fact that they work in a dream.

Then the dream faded away and I emerged into semi-consciousness. I tried to re-enter the dream state several times but was not successful.