Writing

Notes from the practice

Questions that come up often enough to be worth answering properly, drawn from the same logs the books are built on. Each one states what it is confident about, what it is not, and how long before you can tell the difference.

Why You Can't Remember Your Dreams

14 October 2026

You are dreaming every night. This is a retrieval problem, not a dreaming problem, and it responds to training faster than anything else in the practice — usually inside a fortnight. Here is what is actually stopping it, in order of likelihood.

What to Do When You Can't Move

14 October 2026

If you are here because it happened last night, the procedure is first and the explanation can wait. It is harmless, it ends on its own every time, and the most useful thing you can do takes one finger.

How Long Before Wake-Back-to-Bed Works?

14 October 2026

The number everyone wants is four weeks. It is worthless without the specification it depends on, so here is both — and the three signs that tell you it is working before your first lucid dream arrives.