Thanks NyxCC for the advice and feedback!
If you were already seeing though your own eyes, you might have already been in the dream or at least on your way to being fully there.
- I'm pretty sure I was seeing through my own eyes - it was like a flash of being in a dream scene which was hyper realistic of my bedroom (like a lucid FA in my bedroom) but then it went, I guess its hard to know then, because I am still in the bedroom whether it is reality or still the dream - both were identically set up, only in the dream I was reading a piece of paper which was impossible as I was (in reality) lying in bed! Should have done a reality check but hard to do as I felt somewhat paralysed! - Anyway still kinda cool and I guess progress on the way to 'getting' WILDing.

Thinking outloud.... I'm just going to write down some thoughts I've been thinking about vibing....and decided I'm going to take a few nights to try a different, stronger but shorter setting. I'm going to seperate out these from the 'vibe nites' as the stimulus will be a bit different.
I'll call them 'e-nites' (for experimental) until I decide if this is better or worse.

My thinking is this....when I started the vibenites my awareness during and after the wbtb was very high - due to the excitment of starting a new project and also a degree of anxiety I make wake my wife the first few times I tried it. However having done 20 or so without waking my wife the anxiety has worn off, and I find I am more likely to sleep through the vibe than I did previously. Previously the first few vibes would wake me up and then after that they wouldn't.

I had thought this might be due to my awareness dropping as I stay asleep (and this is probably partially true) but I also think this is probably due to me just entering a deeper sleep (I guess the two might go hand in hand). I had also thought this might be due to the repetitive nature of the stimulus causing a desensitization to it - which concerned me.

Then the other night I had the dream where the wbtb signal got incorporated into the dream and then woke me up. What was interesting about this - and got me thinking is that I had had no prior waking to this. In otherwords even though I WAS in a deep sleep with NO wbtb to boost my awareness there was still excellent incorporation of the signal - but it was a higher strenght than normal.

Perhaps this worked because I am so conditioned to the signal that my response to it is almost reflexive (do a R/C - its the invisible clock) and so being higher alert isn't a necessity (desirable - but not a necessity).

So given its hard to massively increase my alertness as I'm unable to get out of bed for fear of waking my partner up, and given I'm probably dropping into a deeper sleep faster now than I did at the start of the vibe nites - it might make sense to increase the signal strength and see what happens. I imagine the first night or two I might just wake up more (not a bad thing) as the 'novelity' of doing it probably will increase my alertness but then after that - who knows - it might be a more effective longer term strenght to use.

NyxCC - I know you've used coffee to help with inducing lucidity - did you find you have stuck to just the same dosage since you started -or have you changed since - I wondered if this might have parallels to what I'm thinking about regarding changing the strength of my vibe. Theres a line I'm trying to seperate between the possibilty of desensitization (which might be a slippery slope) vs a plateauing effect - whereby you need to allow for adjustment of the stimuli strength after a period of adaptation but that after that further desensitization does not occur.

Hope I'm right! fingers crossed, alarms set - GOOOOOO!!!!