spellbee2

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 4

I went to bed at about 11:15. I woke up at 4:45, went to the bathroom, and came back to do my cycles. I honestly wasn't really focusing on the cycles that much, and I got more caught up in random other thoughts. I finally woke up at 7:50 (I had to meet with someone at 8:30). Nothing. Zip. Nada. I don't remember any dreams from that night. However, when I got back from my meeting, I went back to bed (about 9:15). I completed the cycles again, this time focusing a little more on the effort. I completed the cycles, but it took me a long time to fall asleep. I had one of the longest and one of the haziest LDs I've ever had. I don't remember a lot of it, but I do remember a few lucid fragments.

1. As I realized I was lucid, the scene went black. As I rubbed my hands together, I decided where I wanted to go (the lobby of my grocery store - see Day 1 of challenge). The scene kind of rushed in, and I was fairly close to where I wanted (outside in the parking lot...). I felt like I could still kind of feel my real body, so I went on a quest to separate from my body.

2. I walked by this restaurant where all the workers were friends from school or church. Like seriously, that was the name of the restaurant, Friends from School and Church. I went inside and asked for one specific friend, and the employee went to go get her. As I waited, I contemplated telling her that I was lucid and that this was a dream. However, as I thought about this, I still felt my real body in bed. I remembered that in OBEs, one can float out of your body, so that's what I tried. I grabbed a balloon that was next to me and sucked the helium out of it. Sure enough, I started to float. However, I still felt my body, possibly even more than before.

3. I was in my driveway. In one last attempt to become fully lucid and ditch my body, I decided to just walk around and explore, seeing and feeling how real everything was, hoping that the more lucid I became, the less I would feel my body. I walked around my car, feeling how cold and hard the metal was. I grabbed some dirt and felt it fall through my fingers. It probably would've worked if I had started earlier, but instead, I woke up.

It was really a weird sensation, feeling my body for the entire lucid dream. It kind of inhibited my dream control, and it was definitely distracting. However, an LD is an LD, so...

Day 4: LD - 1, FA - 0
Total : LD - 4, FA - 1