Hey, listen up! I had the strangest experience last night!
I was lying in bed reading the very beginning of EWLD. I then got tired, so I switched the light off to go to sleep. I was restless and in a constant state of semi-sleep, with the subject of LDs wizzing through my head, amongst other stuff. Eventually my mum’s coughing woke me up fully so I put my ear plugs in, and decided to take a valerian tablet (safe herbal sedative to help promote sleep naturally) and decided to read a bit more of EWLD.
So a bit later I turned off the light and went to sleep. I think maybe I lay there for a while in the dark asking myself “am I dreaming?” a few times, but not many before I was asleep.
It seamed like almost straight away I was in a dream and completely aware that it was a dream right away. It seamed like I had about 3 or 4 different LDs all in one go, but it was probably just several different scenes of the same dream. I can’t even remember most of it, apart from the fact that it was all completely insane, that I knew I was dreaming the whole time, but that I didn’t have complete control because half of the things I tried to do didn’t turn out quite right.
But I’m really excited though, because this is a great leap forward for me again! I mean, this isn’t the be-all-and-end-all, because obviously I will want to work on my LD skills a lot (such as control & vividness) and also I’ll want to dramatically improve my dream recall.
But this is a great positive though! Fill your head with the subject of LDs immediately before you fall asleep, and it stays in your head while you’re asleep! I mean, I didn’t even do any reality checks, I just automatically knew I was dreaming as soon as the dream started!
Oh, by the way: I am also taking St John’s Wort as a herbal anti-depressant. Don’t know if that makes any difference. I hadn’t noticed anything until now, so probably not.
But this is great though!
Ed.
