A&M Post 4

Finally, this week starting Monday night, I was actually able to have a full night of sleep. The night before I stayed up all night in order to finish my project on time for Monday's reviews. This sort of thing does not happen to me often, usually I will have a schedule laid out ahead of time in order to finish on time with plenty of sleep. This time around I found out within the last week of the project that it was due two days prior to what I had planned for. With that being said, It is clear why me week last week was not as focused toward the experiment project. I did try every night to due the things I have been throughout this month in order to induce a lucid dream but have been unsuccessful so far with one exception of what I believed to be partially lucidity. This week, last night in fact, I want to say that I experienced a lucid dream. Whether it was only partially lucidity or full lucidity it is hard to me to say with confidence. The follow is what transpired:

During my night of rest, I was dreaming of being with my friends and just simply hanging out. The setting and reason for us being where we were is still unclear. Events transpired and we ended up see who could jump over a large planting bed. I gave it a shot and found out that I could effortlessly jump over the planting bed, but I did so nearly twenty feet in the air. After I realized I could do this, I began jumping constantly realizing that there was not boundary set on the height I could achieve. This may be the exact moment that my "training" for lucidity kicked in because I realized that there was simply no way that this was possible and that I must be in a dream. After that I continued to jump all over the place, knowing that I was in a dream. The fact that I knew I was in a dream and have control makes me think that I was in a full lucid dream. The main reasoning for me thinking that it may have been only partial lucidity is that I did not change the dream. Meaning, once I realized I was dreaming I should have been able to do whatever came to mind, I could done anything that I have ever wanted to do. I didn't, I kept the dream the same. Now, whether it just did not occur to me to change the dream because I was having fun doing what I was or the simply could not change the dream is something that I may have to work on the next chance I get.

Since it was the realization that I was doing something that is physically impossible in this dream that gave me control makes me wonder if I can always induce lucidity this way. Tonight, I think that I will do my best to fall asleep imagining myself doing things that would never be possible within the corporeal world. These thoughts then my hopefully carry over into my dream, cause me to have the same realization I did last night, and therefore give me the opportunity to have full control of my dream.