I tried WILD (wake induced lucid dreaming) the other night for the first time in a while. I went to bed at 12 AM and set an alarm for 4 AM to the song of Airplanes by B.O.B. I woke up on schedule, did some addition and multiplication problems in my head to wake myself up a little more, and then tried to stay as still as possible on my back. I thought it was going pretty well up until I felt the spit at the back of my throat. I tried to ignore it, but I inevitably swallowed a few seconds later. I tried again to stay motionless but only encountered the same problem a few minutes later. Great. At that point probably an hour had passed, and all I wanted was to sleep. I'd try again the next night.
I woke up and remembered that I had dreamed about a demented kind of field trip with my old middle school classmates. I kind of remember jumping over pits and riding on a bus afterwards. The weird thing is that I didn't find anything strange about it at the time, even though I had been specifically trying to have a lucid dream. A guy offered me popcorn and a toy rat near the end of the dream, and when I said no, everyone on the bus laughed at me. Fun stuff.
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