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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 13

I went to bed late again, about 1:30. I set my alarm and actually woke up at 5:45 (I usually try to do 5 hours, but I was too lazy last night to change the alarm time...). However, I quickly fell asleep without doing the cycles (I'm getting really bad at the commitment required to get up early for this...). I do remember one dream and one fairly long fragment from last night, even without any B6.
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1. I was back at my high school for my first day of the new year, and I was trying to figure out my schedule (I have at least 5 or 6 of these dreams every year starting in July...). English was my first class, but I had some lady other than my actual English teacher in high school. She seemed a little crazy, giving us assignments that were more designed for elementary students. I don't remember what my second class was, but I remember that afterwards I went into the hallway, which looked like the walkway of a bowling alley. I was looking for my schedule in my backpack because I didn't know what my next class was. After searching a couple folders, I finally found the schedule and saw my next class was Physics (technically, the schedule called the class "Discovering Physics", which is close to the name of the textbook for my actual physics class next year, "Mastering Physics". Just an interesting tidbit...). I ran off to my next class.

2. It was starting to rain outside. I was stuck in the parking lot, so I ran to this red van which had the side door open. I tried to press the button to make the door close automatically. Instead, the door kind of slowly closed one section at a time (kind of hard to explain, like the bottom part of the door lifted up and went in place, then the next part kind of lifted up from underneath and went above the first part). The whole process took forever, and it started to rain before the entire door came together. Instead of the last section going in place, however, the door kind of malfunctioned, and this kind of handicapped ramp on the outside of the van pushed down, lifting the side of the car.
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When I woke up at about 8:15, I had a hard time getting up. I finally just kind of forced myself up (by rolling off the bed...). I figured it would be fine if I performed the WBTB then. First thing I did was take 300mg of B6 so it would be absorbed by the time I actually went to sleep. I sat up playing solitaire on my phone for like 45 minutes (yeah, really... I was bored...). I then laid down at a little after 9 and performed the cycles. I got through about 4 cycles before I fell asleep again. And, oh boy, this was a major false awakening-fest...
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I'm pretty sure the dream just started with a FA right off the bat. I woke up in my bed, but I was backwards in my bed (my feet were on my pillow and my head was where my feet usually are.) The wall I was looking at looked really off. I tried to get up, but I was kind of stuck to the bed. The dream started to destabilize (I think), but I just kind of laid there for a while making sure I didn't move. I again woke up in a bedroom, but it was my old bedroom*. My dad came in to wake me up for breakfast, so I kind of pretended to be asleep. I felt him sit down on my bed as my side of the bed rose up a little, although a lot more than it should have. Again, the dream went dark. I woke up a third time in the right bedroom, but everything in the room was flipped. I knew this was wrong too. My brother came in just as the dream went dark again. I woke up again in my old bedroom backwards in my bed again. My phone was vibrating, so I sat up to check it. I tried pressing a button to turn the screen on. I could see the screen show something, but the backlight wouldn't turn on so I could see it. I finally grasped that I was dreaming. I was able to get up finally and stood in the middle of my bedroom. There was stuff going on outside my door, but I did my best to ignore it.

Right before I went to bed, I was reading Hyu's dream journal and was fascinated by this post about persistent realms, so I thought I'd give it a try. I imagined myself leaving this dream made by my subconscious so I could get to the real worlds outside the dream. I kind of felt my body relax, and before I realized what was happening, I was falling backwards. I fell right through the floor into darkness. I continued to fall back until I got to this small planet that looked like a level from Super Mario Galaxy. The "planet" kind of had the general shape of a cube, but several parts were missing, making a long walkway around to wherever I was supposed to go (the Power Star, probably...). Before I could even start, though, I actually woke up thanks to my loud mouth parents downstairs yelling for me to get up.
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I looked at the clock and saw it was only 9:45. It did surprise me that all that happened in the span of about 30 minutes instead of the usual hour and a half that it takes me. I was really surprised and happy that I had such quick success with Hyu's technique. Granted, I wouldn't exactly call it a success, but it was a lot more progress than I expected so soon.

Day 13: LD - 1, FA - 4
TOTAL: LD - 8, FA - 8

*My brother got married and moved out in December, so I got to move all of my stuff into his room, which is slightly bigger than mine. In my dream, I woke up back in my old bedroom down the hall from my current bedroom.