Last night was kind of a crappy night! Vibe nite 25/e3 - lucid 32

Went to bed trying to be optimistic about getting lucid - did my usual autosuggestion, and had a tiny lucid before the wbtb (and vibes) went off
lucid 32
I am in a lounge room talking to some friends when suddenly these tiny insect like things appear flying around me and distracting me - I try and swat one and miss but see they are in fact tiny minutarised robots - I think 'this is crazy, nothing like this exists - I'm dreaming' - I become lucid but immediately wake up and then immediately drop back into sleep - so the whole dream is kind of dull in my recollection. It almost felt like I wasn't 'trying' to stay lucid - not sure why - but a bit annoying!

Anyway did the wbtb, tried to get myself more aware but it is hard to do without being able to get out of bed (due to risk of disturbing wife) so slipped off to sleep again. I had set the vibes to go off every 10mins and different durations at vibe I- but didnt get any incorporations, so after waking up again, got REALLY annoyed and set it to vibe II and again zero other than a few wakenings but even then they didn't really wake me up enough to do a WILD or DEILD attempt.

Pretty pissed off in the morning - but started to think about what 501 asked me and about what I am doing....

so heres the thing - I initially did a series of days after I got back from NZ in Jan of wearing the invisible clock (IC) during the day and doing regular R/C's with it. After I got over the initial jet lag I tried the vibe nites on the 14 Jan and got 2 incorporations that night with one lucid. I then continued but (and I checked this in my notes to find the exact day) on the 19th of jan I wrote down 'maybe no daytime use and break from IC for a few days means stimulus more novel and like to increase incorp. Avoids habituation'.

At that point (5 wks ago) I pretty much stopped doing daytime use of the IC. I felt I had become 'conditioned' to the response, and as I put above I was worried that by carrying out lots of vibe related R/C's during the day I would find them less 'novel' and also I was worried that with all the day time ones being 'I'm not dreaming' I might weaken my likelyhood to associate them with lucidity and start rushing them.

But now I think I was wrong. I think the response is NOT one of conditioning but its consciously trained response - I am choosing to do a R/C so everytime I do one after the vibe hits I am reinforcing that association with the stimuli, strengthening it, not weakening it (as long as I do do it consciously and thoughtfully ).

So this is what I am going to go back doing again.

I had just written a whole lot more than this - but the computer froze (twice when trying to insert a smilie :-( and all that was autosaved was the above. I had about 5 bullet points of how I think I've reduced the chances of FA's and how to do a special vibe related R/C but rather than blab about it, I'll just do it and if it works, I'll write it up then.