Likely Dreaming | Exploring Dreams & Sleep

Progress

The fifth night of the challenge finally gave me some success. For some reason I woke up very early morning after about 5 hours of sleeping. I couldn’t go back to sleep immediately and Instead was awake for around 30 minutes before starting to watch “Ancient Apocalypse” from Netflix which made me fall asleep almost instantly. That’s where I had my success.

This dream started with a fairly strong sense of lucidity — I realized I was dreaming, and during the first half, I had somewhat good control over it. However, as the dream went on, I clearly began to lose that lucidity, and by the end, I’m not even sure if I knew I was dreaming anymore.

Last Night’s Dreams

I became lucid and escaped by jumping out of a window, gliding across rooftops with a jacket as a parachute. After finding a strange coin and being chased by a furious man, I created a portal that pulled me into a cartoon-like world. There, I met a calm and kind leader of an independent civilization — until the angry man returned and chaos broke out again.

Read the full dream here:

Dream Journal: Muscle Man Ruined my Lucid Dream #1

Tonight’s Plan

I’ll continue with the MILD technique. After this success, I’ll be skipping the Wake Back to Bed (WBTB) method for at least one night.

I had completely forgotten about reality checks, but I’ll try to remember to do them from now on. This success gave me some much-needed motivation, and next time I become lucid, I need to maintain better control.