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Method: I-AM, WT 5.00am from REM, LD around 6.05am
comments: getting the WILD was a shock!

I awake at 5.00 and set things up and return to sleep, but can't quite get off, either through the audio or my wife starting to stir. I know I've got to get up for work at around 6.30am so try to relax and drift off. I am imagine the RILD tech of jumping up and down on my bed and amazingly - suddenly I am! I am bouncing lucidly up and down on the bed, up...down....up....down - it hyperrealistic, there seems to be a lightsource from behind me and as I bounce up and down theres a dark shadow being cast on the wall of me doing the exact same thing - its cool fun but I am so stunned this finally worked - I wake up! Dooh! Let me back in!
I immediately try to relax and drift back off and around 6.00ish I succeed (I've switched off the timer a few mins before). I am dreaming I'm at work at a practice I haven't been to before, its unfamiliar and this kind of bothers me but not enough to get lucid. I bunch of patients file in and my heart sinks when I can hear them in the waiting room discussing their reasons for visiting. A lady is describing a new black floater in her vision and a man flashing lights. I do a big 'sigh' and escape to the toilet! (coward! ). I look into the mirror in the toilet and become lucid - as my reflection hardly resembles me. I'm stil Caucasian with sandy hair otherwise totally different, almost like an aged luke skywalker! I immediately concentrate on my stabilization tech. I look at my hands closely and rub and slap-punch them together. As I do this I yell out 'Increase lucidity, increase focus' but despite believing this my fingers look blurred and foggy however the tactile sensation - esp the slap punch is very realistic. I keep doing this for 20 secs then I try and look around and lose my vision other than a triangle of light. I keep rubbing and slapping but without my sight I've become paranoid I'm doing this now in reallife in bed and am going to wake wifey so I stop and wake up (with my hands in a normal sleep position of course!). The triangle of light turns out to have been me having had my eye v slightly open and seeing light coming through a crack where our curtains meet - interesting it got incorportated into the dream whilst I was still in REM sleep (guess that's how the Novadreamer worked). I head back to sleep but my 4 yr daughter charges in 10mins later and its up for the day.

thoughts: another 2 LD's morning after the last one - can't complain too much but I would really like to beat this stabilization issue. I am going to try spinning next, and I have to remember not to rush and remain focused not frenzied.

method: I-AM, WT: 4.50 from REM sleep, 22 repeat, around 3 repeats and then DILD at 6.00
comments: pretty happy as method worked well again, with the tight window before our alarm goes off at 6.20am

Dream: I am in our bathroom with my wife and washing dishes in our out of place large metal freestanding tub. I am telling wifey that I have missed out on my chance to LD, she suggests changing the time to do a wake up and I suddenly think 'this is it - I'm dreaming'. I remember the TOTM challenge and rub my hands together as I charge down our hall towards my daughters open door yelling out (to no one in particular) 'I need some shoes!' (cheesey eh!). I get to her doorway and I can see out her window and wonderfully even the hall and her room are as exactly in real life the view is completely different. Rather than the neighbours roof and trees there is an open view of rolling green hills spreading to the horizon and a pinkish glow to the air - unfortunately this is just a glimpse as as soon as I reach her room the dream fades.
I am in the void and try imagine rubbing my hands on the carpet, but this doesn't work, so I imagine rowing - this works better I can almost feel myself on a skiff but it never quites happens. After awakening I still lie soon and slowly get some increasing visuals of walking up into a CTU type office, but by then my wife is up and I have to get up.

thoughts: next LD going to concentrate on stabilization before running off, I really need to connect with the environment, I had enough time to do this but focused on the task too quickly.
Also the rowing could be a good DIELD trick for me, the motion seems easy and natural.