Successful lucid dream last night! Short-ish, but thought I'd mention a few things:
Bought a digital voice recorder, that has a voice activated setting, so I can either roll towards it and speak or just pick it up in the dark to speak into it. I've been using this to record some dream fragments as well as to note times when I wake and if I just had a dream to try to map my sleep cycle.
Upon going to sleep last night I tried to tell myself to do an RC ASAP (which would be when dreaming). I woke a few times very briefly in the night and each time told myself the same thing. The last time I awoke was just before the 'sweet' spot for REM so I told myself more strongly to do an RC, repeated it to myself as I fell back asleep and I guess it worked!
In my dream I was on a jeep-like vehicle, standing, holding onto a few pipes as it drove and thought to do an RC. I found that I could breathe through my blocked nose so knew I was dreaming! My vision was suddenly gone as I became lucid, so I kept calm and concentrated on touch. I could still feel the pipes I was standing against, so concentrated on that and felt them, crouching down to do so. I checked to see if I could smell anything and I couldn't, and slowly could start to get my vision back, and concentrated on a few cartoon-like dream characters. After that I was in a lucid dream and had a decent few minutes of lucidity before it ended! Success!!
Just a note to work on your dream recall - you CAN have lucid dreams and forget them like you'd forget regular dreams!
Another success! Notes:
* Inspiration - key factor here, we had the live stream yesterday and I had lucid dreaming on the brain different times yesterday, read some forum posts, checked out reddit. Also had it fresh as I was going to bed/falling asleep.
* WBTB - didn't exactly plan on it, but woke 4 hours after going to sleep so I went to the washroom, did a little walk around, a little stretch, just to feel awake. Back in bed I did look at my iPad a bit (lowest brightness) to brush up on the Dreamwalker technique.
* Rolled into my usual sleeping position and did the Dreamwalker technique. I only got maybe 3 done before falling asleep
* I had a semi-false awakening, where I still believed that I was trying to LD, but the room was different, my bed was more of a couch, but my dream brain didn't notice. I was scrolling through facebook i believe on my iPad and decided to do Dreamwalker, and stood up. I then just realized, hey, I'm dreaming! Success!
So inspiration and focus are probably the two takeaways here. I was kinda going for a WILD but I've only managed that once I think, more often I've had like this one, a normal LD but soon after falling asleep from a WILD attempt where my brain is still 'close' to the attempt.