Day 3

The night
I had a crazy night! I went to bed at 23:00 and woke at 03:30. I didn't remember any dreams, and I felt a little worried because I thought my good streak of 4 or more dreams was over. I went to the bathroom, and then, even though I had initially decided against it, I tried to SSILD. I went through the cycles, got very groggy, drifted off, woke up, reapeated. Now I think there may have been a couple of false awakenings in there. But I fell asleep and had a non-lucid where I was at my mom's house practising SSILD but kept getting interrupted. I woke again at 04:50 and tried to go trough the cycles again. I got through one cycle before fallig asleep, and getting a DILD!! The dream was semi-long and very vivid. I woke up from it and did something that I don't remember, but I entered back into the same dream! This time I entered already lucid. This dream was also long-ish and I even completed my goal from yesterday by levitating (I flew several metres into the air). I woke up (I think, or else a FA) and did something I don't remember, and entered into a third LD - again already lucid. This time my control was not good at all, and after som weirdness I tried spinning to create a new, more stable dream. I didn't get the dream I was aiming for, but it worked otherwise. The new dream was vivid and felt stable. From this dream I had a FA into a non-lucid (if that is possible?), and then I woke up at 06:11. I have logged all the LDs in my DJ:

Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views - porcupine - Dream Journals

After all this I couldn't get back to sleep because of the exitement. But I'm so glad I tried SSILD!


The day
I practised awareness today, but didn't do the first lesson of Dream Yoga as I had planned.


Findings and evaluation
- SSILD is definitely a go for now
- Spinning in the dream worked well - I will keep practising.
- I used the hand-RC to stabilise the dreams several times. It is the only one I have used in-dream so far.
- FA! Never knew they could be so confusing. I'm going to RC routinely every time I wake up from now on.

- I'm a bit worried about my swift progress. I'm wonder if I want it too much and the quality of my LDs suffer. I know it must be near impossible to compare the level of clarity and "reality-feel" that different dreamers experience, but I still wonder if mine could be clearer. Maybe I'm being paranoid - unexpected success can do that to me


Goals
- Tonight I'm going to sleep normally. I'm pretty tired. DILDs are welcome though (Is there a good way to STOP one from lucid dreaming if one wishes?)
- Next LD I'm going to try verbal commands.