vibe nites 14 and 15

These took place last night and 3 nights previously.

For vibe nite 14 I was still pretty hammered by my cold. My wife decided to sleep downstairs after she had a coughing fit this time, and I set out to do a wbtb 5 hours after sleep. However around an hour earlier than planned my little daughter woke me up crying so I decided (against my better judgement) to do it earlier. I also lenghtned the intervals between the vibes to go off at 40mins (2secs) then 1 hour (5secs). Unfortunately no lucids. My wife came in the room and woke me again pretty abruptly (I think secretly she enjoys this!!) and I saw that a 2sec vibe had gone off around 4 mins before she woke me up. I had awoken from a dream - but couldn't remember the vibe being incorporated into it - so it a bit of a MIA moment.

Of interest though was immediately after she woke me she left to go to the shower and I immediately dropped back into sleep and straight into REM dreaming and a sort of FA in that I was dreaming I was looking at the invisible clock to see when the vibe interval had hit - I then dragged myself awake again and realised I had just dreamt this as I was still in bed and the clock still against my ankle - so a pretty interesting snapshot of how quickly you can drop back into REM dreaming from waking (like a DIELD I guess without the lucidity).

Vibe nite 15 last night.
wbtb went well, improved the way in which I am using the timer to silently wake myself without disturbing my wife. Set the timer on 30min intervals to allow myself longer to return to sleep after the wbtb. No lucids - however frustratingly I was in a good stable dream when my daughter came and woke us up, around 1 minute later the timer went off doh!!!! so if she had been a few minutes later I might have been more lucky!

so no lucids but some good points/ lessons
1. better method of attaching IC for wbtb
2. I have come up with an interesting idea for keeping the cycle at 21mins after the wbtb on a soft vibe nite, that I might try tonight
3. I played around with the clock today IRL and I think the 2 secs cycle would be fine again if I reconditioned myself to it, but if 2. above works I won't have to

Still everything to play for!