Dolphin was correct to suggest that you experiment, GoatHammer, but keep in mind while you do of the purpose of WBTB: it is intended to be a period where you are able to gather enough wakefulness to sustain a WILD dive while still remaining in your sleep cycle. This means that you have to be careful not to wake up too much and lose your sleep cycle, but also that you are sure to be awake enough to succeed with your WILD. The balance is critical, but it also tends to favor being up for at least 15 minutes -- and it sort of demands that you actually get up out of bed.
Part of your interest in keeping your WBTB short may come from a powerful urge to go right back to sleep and continue your sleep cycle naturally -- with no lucidity. It may be very tempting, then, to stay up for just a couple of minutes, and very annoying to stay up for 30 minutes. It is a very good thing to fight the temptation, because that may just be your body insisting that you go back to sleep before you gather enough wakefulness; it's also a good thing to make the "up time" as pleasant as possible (though you should stay away from your phone, TV, and other things that might wake you too much).
Finally, you may have hit on your WBTB "sweet spot" on your first try; if I were you I would experiment with slightly less up time (like, 25 minutes) next time, and don't go straight for a couple of minutes. You could also experiment with what you do during WBTB to make the time interesting enough that the time passes without a strong desire to go back to bed, but you also retain your sleepy/dreamy state of mind.
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