I believe we are paused while waiting for some people to post their feedback on exercise 5, so I will chime in. I have caught up with the previous exercises over the last several days, though I am late to the party. I am afraid Nailler might be right, but there are still plenty of people on DV that are willing to put in the work needed to LD and I am cautiously optimistic that these exercises will be worth our time! The reason I say that is that the 4 previous exercises clearly do lead up to #5 and many of the components of the exercises resonate with me so far and quite a few of them are similar to things that I have done in the past that seemed to be beneficial.

In exercise 5 I got a feeling of excitement while doing the exercise, though holding onto that feeling was the challenge as the author mentioned. That is a skill that anyone should recognize as useful for those dream and reality "mountaintop moments."

Brief feedback on previous exercises:

Exercise 1 - dream object - is like my waking practices when imagining what I will do in my next lucid I also look at nearby objects as if they were creations of my mind in an LD. I like it.

Exercise 2 - Super RC - I haven't done this before. It created some excitement similar to becoming lucid.

Exercise 3a - Reverse FA (imagining becoming lucid) - like I mention in exercise 1 this is part of one of my waking practices but repeating it multiple times in the same session was new for me.

Exercise 3b - True FA - I do the day review when I feel I need to boost my dream recall but never ended it with imagining that it was all a dream or that I am dreaming at the time. I like this and it ties in nicely with everything so far.

Exercise 4a/b - alternating objects/reality - I have done imagining the dream objects/imagining being lucid as mentioned above but never alternated back and forth with real objects/reality intentionally. Concept makes sense.

(My exercise 5 notes are above.)