Thank you! Unfortunately lots of hard work means that I'm falling asleep almost straight away at the moment. I did manage two lucids over the weekend and I feel much more perceptive about questioning reality. My first LD came from this; I was at the bottom of a tall building and had to get to the top by a long staircase; I thought if I was dreaming then I'd just fly to the top so I did a RC, and found that I was dreaming. I then managed to fly/float to the top of the building without even thinking that indoor flying may be more difficult than outside flying! I found the dream a little unstable so I performed stabilisation techniques a couple of times, but it felt almost like the dream was determined to "force" me out; I turned a little too quickly around a corner and woke up from that. I was in two minds whether to try a DEILD or to write down what I remembered so as not to forget; I chose the latter as I've been a bit lazy recently at getting out of bed and writing things down.

My second LD was brief but along the same lines; I had woken up in the middle of the night and was about to get out of bed, before I realised that I was in bed at my old house and this was not my new bed, so I thought I was probably dreaming at that point. A quick RC confirmed this, so I stabilised my dream. I was just getting out of bed to start lucid tasks and then felt "pushed" over; my wife had rolled into me in bed, waking me up.

Is it possible with enough practice to stay lucid even with these exterior stimuli - if I am determined enough, can I "train" myself to ignore the external senses in order to stay lucid? With a better feel for lucidity and a better mindset, I'm going to start to move on to the fourth lesson and begin to practise stabilisation and lengthening techniques