I had a problem last night that maybe someone can help me with.

Lately I've been feeling out a few techniques. I have been doing a little MILD/WB2B with poor results. I will tell you I've been keeping a journal, doing reality checks, and getting into a little ADA (I'm still pretty new at this). The problem I had last night was not necessarily my fault, I think I was doing everything right, though I may need to tweek my timing a little bit. Here is what happened.

I awakened naturally after my 1st REM cycle. It had been about 4.5hrs from when I had initially gone to bed. I did my exercises/reality checks/mantras before the initial sleep as I had success in lucidity doing this the previous night. REM#1 was non-lucid, but I had good recall and recorded my dream, grabbed some water and laid still doing more exercises/recalling/reality check/a little visualization.

I felt myself drifting but my mind was still sharp. I kept up the mantras. This went on for about 15-20 mins. I started to see the flashing colors after that and I was still conscious. BAM! Knocked out of the trance, my wife rolled over and bumped me. I thought, "Ok, I'll try again, I think I was almost there." I had almost gotten to that stage again, but I could tell it was weaker than last time. BAM! AGAIN, my wife turns over and her arm lands on me. It was though a pane of glass had been shattered before my eyes.

I guess I got angry and just gave up, I went to sleep, had 2 more recordable/remembered dreams, both non-lucid, which I put in my journal this morning.

For those of you with significant others, What the hell do you do? I've only had 1 night of lucid dreaming and it was DILD. I'm concerned if this keeps going, I will never be able to use another technique.

Thoughts and/or help would be appreciated!