Tlaloc

Method: I-AM, WT 5.00am from REM, LD around 6.05am
comments: getting the WILD was a shock!

I awake at 5.00 and set things up and return to sleep, but can't quite get off, either through the audio or my wife starting to stir. I know I've got to get up for work at around 6.30am so try to relax and drift off. I am imagine the RILD tech of jumping up and down on my bed and amazingly - suddenly I am! I am bouncing lucidly up and down on the bed, up...down....up....down - it hyperrealistic, there seems to be a lightsource from behind me and as I bounce up and down theres a dark shadow being cast on the wall of me doing the exact same thing - its cool fun but I am so stunned this finally worked - I wake up! Dooh! Let me back in!
I immediately try to relax and drift back off and around 6.00ish I succeed (I've switched off the timer a few mins before). I am dreaming I'm at work at a practice I haven't been to before, its unfamiliar and this kind of bothers me but not enough to get lucid. I bunch of patients file in and my heart sinks when I can hear them in the waiting room discussing their reasons for visiting. A lady is describing a new black floater in her vision and a man flashing lights. I do a big 'sigh' and escape to the toilet! (coward! ). I look into the mirror in the toilet and become lucid - as my reflection hardly resembles me. I'm stil Caucasian with sandy hair otherwise totally different, almost like an aged luke skywalker! I immediately concentrate on my stabilization tech. I look at my hands closely and rub and slap-punch them together. As I do this I yell out 'Increase lucidity, increase focus' but despite believing this my fingers look blurred and foggy however the tactile sensation - esp the slap punch is very realistic. I keep doing this for 20 secs then I try and look around and lose my vision other than a triangle of light. I keep rubbing and slapping but without my sight I've become paranoid I'm doing this now in reallife in bed and am going to wake wifey so I stop and wake up (with my hands in a normal sleep position of course!). The triangle of light turns out to have been me having had my eye v slightly open and seeing light coming through a crack where our curtains meet - interesting it got incorportated into the dream whilst I was still in REM sleep (guess that's how the Novadreamer worked). I head back to sleep but my 4 yr daughter charges in 10mins later and its up for the day.

thoughts: another 2 LD's morning after the last one - can't complain too much but I would really like to beat this stabilization issue. I am going to try spinning next, and I have to remember not to rush and remain focused not frenzied.