Tried a vibe nite last night for the first time in a while. Missed the expected wbtb so had a delayed one, and lengthned my viberation length. The late wbtb meant I only had about 1 hr 20mins of sleep to play with before the alarm woke me up.

Got close to one incorporation but the vibe went on for too long and kind of dragged me out of the dream.

However the more interesting event was a dream I had inbetween vibes just before awakening for the day. I dreamt I was driving my uncle in a car up the street - there were plenty of missed dreamsigns in this (I haven't my uncle in the flesh for 10 yrs, the driving was difficult). He told me to pull into to a parking space, and I felt massively relieved to get there and turn the engine off given I was having such a stressful time keeping the car straight and not smashing into anything. My uncle said I could take a nap, so I laid my head against the drivers window and closed my eyes, and at this point I realised I was dreaming as I realised my head was lying against my pillow in a funny positon (the pillow being scrunched up and pushing my head up). It was a very vivid and odd sensation - I had gone and closed my eyes in the car resting my head on the window and now in the same position as in the dream I was aware I wasn't actually in the car but in my bed, but still with my eyes closed! I kept the closed and tried to DIELD imagining I was still in the car and I would open them to see the inside of the car - but couldn't make it happen.

Perhaps I was at the end of the REM period, whatever - whilst it was non-lucid the junction between the dreamed reality and the actual reality seemed absolutely paper thin and incredibly vivid - I nice experience just before the alarm went off.

This supports what I've been thinking about over the last few days about how to better do the vibe nites, so I'm going to continue to experiment, trying slightly later wbtb's to naturally increase my awareness, along with trying to activate my natural 'fear' of waking the wife to the same end!

my gut feeling is that awareness is a big part not of just recognizing the vibration as a dream sign but is also key to getting it incorporated into the dream in the first place, which is not something I had thought about initially. I realise that by delaying my wbtb I will have less dreaming time left, and any lucidity will probably be less stable, but the idea of being able to increase the likelyhood of an incorporation is quite attractive, and if this fails perhaps the chance of just a normal lucid - kind of like what almost happened this morning (but obviously this morning wasn't actually lucid) might be increased anyway.

worth trying out anyway, I would love for this to work! and I have a gut feeling it just might....but I don't want to jinx it