Hi NyxCC - been awhile! :-) Hope all is well for you and yours! I started to write a post concluding my experiments with the vibe nites but found it wandering off to too long a discussion (more a paper than a post!). Effectively what happened in the end is habituation to the vibrating stimulus, my unconscious brain no longer incorporated the stimuli into the dream, it simply started to ignore it, so I ended up turning the vibration intensity from 1 to the highest 3 and finding it wouldn't even wake me up at all (whereas when I started 5 mths ago, the lowest vibe would wake me up and get incorporated well).

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much I can do to beat this as I've had it turned up to the highest setting and I just sleep through it (I did a whole series of about 15 vibe nites where I changed the duration and intensity to try and get my brain to incorporate the cue without success).

Still its been interesting to do it, if frustrating. I am just in a bit of a limbo trying to work out where to go forward from here.....I am still limited that I can't get out of bed due to the risk of waking my very light sleeping wife, and I get minimal lie in due to my young children....I had thought about trying DIELD and using the sound of the clock under my pillow to wake me without disturbing my wife, but looking at other posts people often complain they become habituated to the alarm noise after a while and it ceases to wake them....maybe I should try WILDing???? I'm kindof thinking of something where you remain conscious might give longer term success compared to what I've experienced which is the opposite - more experience of the vibe lead to innate habituation to the cue leading to less success. Any thoughts? Thanks!!!!!