Knocking

COMMENTARY NON-LUCID DREAM LUCID DREAM Asleep: 12:45 <PERSON>: 3:30, 5:30, 7:30 Awake: 8:24 Techs: WBTB + MILD (and a little SSILD to help fall asleep during WBTB) Dreams: 3 <PERSON>: 1 1. (FA) I "woke up" and looked at the time on my phone. I then decided to move my alarm one hour later for WBTB because of how late it was already. Then I woke up for real. 2. I am in a room with my dad and one of my parent's family friends, <PERSON>. It is night-time, during a WBTB. I am reading a night-time WBTB recording on (dreamviews?) which has notes from everyone is WBTB from that night. 3. During this dream, two people were present who I genuinely thought were friend's of T. I thought we had seen a movie with them. I even have memories of being at the movie theater with them. Upon waking, I know we have never met these people. T's two friends, who I apparently remembered us going to the movies with, came over to our house early in the morning. They dress 'uniquely', kind of metrosexual or hipster. (Trying not be offensive, I just seriously do not know anything about fashion lol) They laid down in our bed with us and we all tried to get some sleep. Then they are other friends came over as well. There were three of them, but I remember this one big guy. He came over and shook my hand while I was lying in bed. Then he leaned down and gave T an awkward hug where they were patting each other's backs for a socially awkward amount of time. 4. (FA) I "woke up" in my normal bed. I laid down for a second and then remembered that I should write that previous dream down. I turned over and grabbed my penlight, but could not find my tag notebook. I was not thinking clearly because I thought, "I wonder if that big guy knocked it down." I looked on the nightstand and the floor. Then I thought, that is weird my tag notebook really should be here. Maybe I am dreaming. I did a nose-plug RC and before I even finished, I just knew I was dreaming. The nose-plug RC worked and I could breathe. But then, I felt total sleep paralysis lying on my side in bed. I could not move. My normal reaction <PERSON> took over and I tried to move my head/neck. I woke up. Notes - I did a little autosuggestion before bed but that is it. I woke up a couple times during the night, once to use restroom and once to my alarm. I did not do any induction technique during these awakenings. Then, T came home and got in bed at 7:30am which caused me to wake up. She also let the cats in. I laid there for a while and did MILD. Then I eventually got up to kick the cats out. I could not fall back asleep so I decided to try SSILD as a cure for insomnia. It worked. I fell asleep after a little while and had these two dreams, during the last of which I became lucid!