Hi NyxCC - thanks for the feedback! I like your ideas about the void - whilst I was there, it didn't feel rushed more like being in a darkened warm theatre waiting for the movie to start type feeling so I can see what you mean by using the time to prepare for the next dream scene. I think your idea of rubbing the floor would be useful for me to maintain my stabilization and give some features to a potentially emerging dream scene so will try this next time....

Congrats on getting your wings!!! Am I correct that you have to get them afresh every month?

Had a funny dream this morning. I had meant to do a wbtb followed by setting the vibrating invis clock, but I'm still getting over this cold and get a bit of a cough going to sleep so wifey sent me downstairs to sleep. I set the clock to wake me up but slepth through it, awoke around 5.20 and decided it was too late to do the vibe nite so just went back to sleep. Around 6.30am I was in a dream - outside in a surburban street, some kids loading a truck with my wife directing things, then somehow I was waking up there too and trying to explain to some dc's why I was wearing a headband REM detector (I don't have one of these in real life!) and an invisible clock that was truely transparent (I was trying to explain to myself how this could be, given IRL it is sold black and trying to tell myself it was all down to the lighting). As I was doing this - SUDDENLY my wife is yelling my face ' GET UP!' in real life! This was really weird the immediate flick from the dream (in which I'm dreaming I'm waking up and my wife is in the street) to actually waking up with a start and my wife being right next to my face!
My wife explained afterwards that she had come down and had been calling me from the doorway for a few moments, but I had earplugs in and bunged up ears anyway due to the cold, so she came over and increased her volume! It seems pretty likely to me that her calling from the door wasn't enough to wake me up but probably got incorporated into the dream - hence my dreaming (of her and) of waking up....just before she actually woke me up. Ahhh if only she had called out 'Dave you're dreaming!!!' instead! Ha Ha

Anyways thats what I really like about dreaming is all the variety of the experiences, FA, lucids, sleep paralysis, HA, HH and incorporation of external stuff - even if you don't get lucid theres still loads of interesting stuff potentially going on!

I've been thinking about the intervals I'm setting the viberation to, 21 mins repeat has been very effective but has the drawback that if I don't fall sleep before the vibes start (you can't set a delay) sometimes its hard to get to sleep again at all (because you start waiting for the next ones to hit). So I'm thinking I might set the first for 40mins, another for 60mins and then repeat, the disadvantage to this is that theres then a 40min gap in each cycle which decreases hitting a REM period....but I might try it for the 'soft vibe nites' and see what happens, keeping the 21repeat for the nights I can afford less sleep.

Despite feeling knackered from the cold I am very keen to get back to it and keep the momentum going so hopefully I'll be able to try it out again pretty soon.

Thanks again for the feedback and tips NyxCC!