Thanks NyxCC. I am looking forward to seeing them again. I know it will happen. I've been keeping up with the RCs and I'm happy each time I've gotten lucid, if only for a short second. Seeing my mother brought out strong emotions so I'm guessing that's why I woke up so fast. My hope is that next time I'm lucid, I'm just going to try to look around, look at my hands, dream body, etc. and that will BE the goal, try to feel what it feels like rather than try to do something. I have a long list of goals but clearly I need to work on attaining lucidity and then stabilizing the dream first.