So last night I had another lucid dream success!

I turned in at around 12:45 and did the usual thing with the binaural beats. I fell asleep and had some weird and vivid dreams, and then woke up at 6am to go to the toilet. I thought I would try out a WBTB for 10-15 minutes, so I switched the light on and sat up, writing down my dreams. Then I tried to get to sleep, but it seemed to be difficult. I felt like I was still digesting a heavy meal from earlier in the evening. It was one of those nights where I wondered if I would be lying in bed awake until I had to get up anyway. But I lay still and just waited for any dreams to come.

I found myself getting out of bed in the middle of the night to see a supporting pillar made of steel had suddenly appeared in my room. I touched it, and it was certainly there, and I knew that I was dreaming. I walked around my bedroom and I tried to look at myself in the mirror (in the dark). All I could see was a blurry mass, although usually I can see something because of the streetlights that come in through my curtains.

I went downstairs in the dark and I switched on every light on the ground floor. The fact that I succeeded in doing this freaked me out - I always thought that switching lights on in dreams was not possible, something to do with how the brain works. At this point I started to question whether or not I was dreaming again. I headed upstairs to take another look at that metal pillar, but as I walked I woke up. I think I actually wanted to wake up just to end my confusion at that point.

So that was definitely a success, but I completely forgot to practice the dream control and stabilization techniques.