Last night I woke up at 3:30 a.m. after a dream. I tried doing a typical MILD by telling myself, “I will have a lucid dream” but this tends to keep me awake for some reason. Then I attempted to do WILD and as usually couldn’t manage it. So I finally just decided to try to fall back to sleep.
I started to have some HI and I began to visualize a clipboard (I didn’t intentionally do this). I was holding it in my left hand and I could see it very clearly. It was an old clipboard, brown and the clip was worn and slightly rusty. It had a single piece of white paper on it. I visualize a black magic marker in my right hand. I wrote “DREAMING?” & under that “RC” on the paper. I then came back to full consciousness. After that I told myself, “Don’t forget your clipboard.” I told myself this several times and found it easier. This wasn’t keeping me awake. It was just like trying to remember to bring something to work in the morning. Just as I felt myself dozing I reminded “Don’t forget your clipboard.” and it didn’t bring me back to consciousness.
I had 2 dreams after doing this. (both in my dream journal) the first I knew that I was forgetting something but didn’t become lucid. The second I remembered my clipboard and ended up lucid, but woke up quickly.
Has anyone else done something like this??