Tried SSILD for the first time. Took 2mg melatonin *before* any sleep at all (maybe 30m-1h before going to bed), at the advice of cosmiciron, whose advice is the *complete opposite* of that highly upvoted reddit thread. Went to bed at and special alarm woke me up ~5 hours later. Couldn't remember any dreams. Didn't immediately do a reality check as I'd resolved, d'oh, but did one pretty soon, perhaps helped by the sign I'd posted next to my bed that read (REALITY CHECK). Rose and checked something on the computer, went back to bed in ~5min. Started doing SSILD cycles. Did all of them, ~4 fast then ~4 slow. Not sure if they were too fast. Found it somewhat hard to actually relax my eyeballs, I might have still been straining them, and I felt they might have been actually more relaxed when I was focused on the body instead of the eyes themselves. Still did the cycles decently. Some minor imagery intruded during a later eye phase - imagery of the firefox tab bar. Twice my head started tingling and going a bit numb. I wondered whether this was the onset of sleep paralysis and I was ending up doing "WILD" and was a bit apprehensive. The process didn't finish either of those times, I ended up shifting my position and waking up a bit. Eventually fell asleep and was woken by my normal alarm, and remembered no dreams. Decided to try SSILD again right away, reset the alarm, and started doing some more cycles. I didn't get out of bed before starting to do the cycles though, d'oh, so the whole second attempt might have just been my brain making up excuses to stay in bed. Did cycles, don't remember whether I did all of them or how well they went, and went back to sleep. Might have woken up later and gone back to sleep *again*, but eventually woke up, no alarm, having spent a total of ~12 hours in bed. Now I did remember some dreams, one detailed one, a scene from a larger dream I couldn't remember, and one isolated scene, and wrote down everything I remember in my dream log.