Wood’s World

The last few nights have not been very fruitful. On the plus side, my dream memory hasn’t faltered. I also had a slightly odd experience where I thought I might be in a dream but for some reason didn’t do a reality check, so nothing really happened.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the reason it worked on the first night was because it was at the very forefront of my mind, having read about it a lot that day. I hadn’t been training myself to do reality checks at that point, but I still did one in the dream on the first night, just from hearing about doing them. So I think it’s got more to do with how prevalent it is in your mind rather than training yourself to habitually do reality checks.

I read that eating late at night before you go to bed reduces your chances of remembering your dreams due to your body having to do more other work digesting food. I’m not sure how true that is, but so far it does seem to be helping.

So what’s the plan?

• I’m going to try to read for 20-30 minutes about Lucid dreaming each night before I go to sleep, so that it is on my mind.
• Not going to eat a short time before going to sleep.
• Continue with the reality checks each time I walk through a door (so long as I can remember to do it)
• Continue with the journal and the visualization.

I wonder how long it’s going to take me to crack this.

Related Articles:

• The Lucid Dreaming Experiment
• Lucid Dreaming: Night 1 - A Breakthrough Already
• Lucid Dreaming: Night 2
• Lucid Dreaming: Night 5

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