I think my previous posts cover everything up to Lesson 3, so I'll be focusing now on Lesson 4.

Stabilization & control goals for the coming weeks:
1) Sit down and meditate in a dream (#1 priority)
2) Teleport to my incubated dream location (I've been visualizing the place and making connections with my childhood home, one of my most prominent dream locations/dream signs -- hopefully the next time I'm there, I will remember to teleport!)
3) Touch my thumb and forefinger and nonverbally chant: "Sight, Sound, Touch, Ground(ed), Calm, Conf(ident), I, Can, Stay, Here, For, As, Long, As, I, Want"*
4) Remember to solve basic math equations at start of dream
5) Visualize common dream characters telling me that I'm dreaming and have it manifest in a dream
6) Utilize schemas to create items/people from raw materials (as in the hydrant example). Note: I have no problem doing the expectation method of summoning things, and often in lucids I've transformed myself (in mirrors) and other DCs, but I don't think I've ever created something from nothing like that...will be interesting to try!
n) Keep the thought in mind throughout the entire dream that if I start to lose lucidity, I will simply stabilize again, and know that I can stay in the dream for as long as I want



*Note: I actually created a mandala from this chant and have been reciting the chant in my mind while following the spiral inwards and touching thumb and forefinger. I try to visualize that when my thumb and forefinger (left hand) get close enough together, they are magnetically drawn together and there's a spark -- when this happens, my senses are flooded and my awareness grows like an silhouette or shadow expanding all around me.
Mandala:

........SS........
.......A..T.......
......F.LA.G......
......H.WI.C......
.......S..C.......
........CI........
Order (S=start, E=end):
........S>........
.......>..>.......
......^.>v.v......
......^.E<.v......
.......<..<.......
........<<........