Empirical Empire

Today I had my 300th dream recorded in my dream journal since I started the lucid dream study in january, 6th. My dreams recall are getting better but my lucid dreams are getting worst. My lucid dreams were in something like 1/week and now it appears to be changing to 1 every 2 weeks.

Had 2 lucids in a row today (april, 19th, 2005). Vividness 4 (from 1 to 5) and ended a 22 days dry spell!!! Did not control anything, just went in the dream flown. The first one last just one minute; the second one several minutes. The first lucid happened between 5:00am and 5:40am. The second one at 06:20am.

In the fist lucid I just “realize” that I was dreaming. In the second one I pinched my nose to do the reality check.

Went to bed at 10:30pm. My son (2 years old) slept with me and my wife. Wake up at 11:20pm to put him on his bed. 4 dreams total for the night. Tried WILD at 03:00am with no success. Got deeply paralysed but just that. I concentrated a lot in the Ajna Chakra (Third Eye, between eyebrows), focusing in a white dot there. At 4:00am my son woke up with a bad cough. I went to the kitchen and got a syrup to him. So, I did a forced WBTB

In the first lucid I slept on the left side and my right nostril was open. In the second lucid I had slept on the left side of the body but both my nostrils were open. The nostrils open/close stuff I took from a experiment in the nasal cycle from the Lucidity Institute. Do not know if it influences the lucid dreams, but I started to put it in my journal also.

I did MILD before sleep and at every time that I woke up after REMs.

Vitamins/pills: I DID NOT took any B complex pills nor Valerian tea for the night.

Food: I ate a hole veggie pizza and drank tea at dinner (8:00pm).