Tygar

9/19/2005
The exciting, yet tiring and frustrating night.
I was on the forum on Friday, posting my last LD. I did a bit of reading and found the thread for the “Suneye Method.” I printed out a copy of Method 1 and read it. I decided that I could not follow the method as described. I know my sleep habits well enough to know that if I woke up 6 hours, washed my face with cold water and then stayed up for an hour, I wouldn’t be able to fall back to sleep. I did, however, decide to try some of the techniques from the “Suneye” method. I started practicing “looking at the 3rd eye” on Friday night. I had some trouble with this. My eye-lids kept fluttering and I ended up with a headache. I would look at the 3rd eye and repeat “Today I will have a lucid dream” exactly as suggested in the article. I had no success that night. On Saturday night I had 5 kids sleeping over my house. The got to bed late and I did attempt some of the Suneye method, but half-heartedly, again with no success. Last night I tried again, but this time I changed my wordage to “Tonight I will become aware I am dreaming and do a reality check.”
I looked at the 3rd eye and repeated my phrase before I fell asleep (at aprox. 10pm). At 1a.m. my stepdaughter woke up and had to use the bathroom. Her mom took her and after she came back to bed I attempted the method again with some success…….

“Failed RC, Damn!”
(I won’t go into great detail about the entire dream.) In the dream I had a “sexual device” that I had left at my parents’ house. When I realized this I became afraid that they would find it and think I was a pervert. Suddenly, I suspected I was dreaming because the situation seemed very strange. I did a RC. I looked at my left hand and counted my fingers. When I attempted this RC my fingers kept shifting out of focus, like double vision. This should have told me that I was dreaming, but didn’t. It was like I didn’t want to believe I was dreaming. I justified the double vision by thinking, “I’m not wearing my glasses.” I attempted it again, and again had double vision, but could still count. I counted 5 fingers. Still in doubt I decided to try to fly. I jumped up, but landed just like in RL (which is exactly what I thought would happen.) At this point I woke up (1:45am). I dozed back off within a few minutes.

At 2 a.m. my stepdaughter woke up again and called for her mom. My wife went into her room. I got up and used the bathroom. I went back to bed and lay there until my wife returned (at 2:15ish). I then had trouble falling back to sleep. I began doing the Suneye method again at aprox. 2:30ish. I must have fallen back to sleep at around 3 a.m. (when I’m having trouble sleeping I make it a point to not check the clock.)……………

LD #11 “Superman needs his theme song”
I’m riding my old blue Schwin Scrambler (a BMX bike I owned when I was 12 yrs old) up Upland Street near the golf course. There are other kids riding there BMX bikes around me. I stop, realizing that I am an adult riding a kid’s bike. I look at my old bike and see that it is very old, rusty and some of the nuts and bolts are loose. I think to myself, ‘didn’t I get rid of this bike years ago?” I become aware that I am dreaming and immediately look at my left hand. I have eight fingers. I am very lucid. I look around. Everything is very clear. I can see: acres of green grass of the golf course, the red club house, the many people gathered around the club house with their golf bags waiting to play, the boundless sky (which is overcast with white cloud-cover). Seeing the sky and the treeless expanse of the golf course I couldn’t resist flying. I ran across the street toward the grass and leapt gracefully into the air, just like superman. I remind myself to stay calm. I begin to glide up and over the golf course. I see my old boss, Gail, down below and yell to here, “Good morning!” She waves back. I am so happy to be lucid and flying. I begin to whistle the superman theme song (from the 1980 film). I fly upward and look down at the tiny golf course below me. Things begin to fade a bit, so I rub my hands together and things become clear again. I fly up higher and break through the clouds (which feel cool and damp, like morning fog). I am still whistling the superman song and I am amazed at how clearly and perfectly the song sounds. It is also very loud, much louder then I could whistle in RL. I wonder for a moment if I am whistling in my sleep (in RL) and my wife is listening and laughing. I dive back down through the clouds and swoop down to about 100ft above the grass. I slow my speed and turn over on my back (as if I’m in water). I stop flying and drift, like a feather, toward the grass. Suddenly, I startle awake and sit up in bed because of a strange noise. My room is pitch black, I can’t see a thing. I say to my wife (who I assume is next to me) “Did you hear that?” I am actually afraid. I hear a man’s voice to my right speak in an evil sarcastic tone, “I didn’t hear anything.” I swing my right arm out at the voice and strike a body. I open my eyes and actually wake up (3:30 a.m.). I realize that I just had a false awakening, which was very frustrating. I don’t bother using the Suneye method again, I just fall back to sleep naturally.
So, I am very happy that the Suneye techniques have worked for me, even though I am not using them exactly as directed. I feel great this morning (mentally) because I was flying like superman in a LD last night. But, I am VERY tired this morning and a bit frustrated about blowing the RC in the first dream and the annoying false awakening in the second dream.
The joy of the LD definitely out weights the frustration.