Still nice feeling from such a solid lucid. Funny how next night, went to bed psyched with a dream goal, even mild WBTB and only a couple of lines of recall in morning...No gaurentees or real predictability in this.

What does the breakdown of your night look like when using this combination? (doing SSILD at what stage? how much later for MILD?)
I tend to do SSILD if I wake after 3 or 4 1/2 hours. Brought me into a WILD one time after about 2 1/2 hrs sleep. Any other wakings I tend to do MILD at the moment.

I'm jealous! I only have one friend that is really interested and involved with lucid dreaming and I only see that friend a few times a year. This is great that you have such a group!..I recommend to work however you can at keeping it going.
Yeh, quite fortunate. Its only a small group and in its infancy. A few other people interested in Lucid dreaming. Mostly not getting lucid yet but building potential. We organised a weekend workshop, with Robert Waggoner last Oct, here in the village myself and Aaronoscar live. Hope the others stay into it. Having a mate into lucid dreaming has made it so much more fun. Getting to meet on WBTB's, share lucid's and reflections. Easier to learn anything in contact with others...

If you are being woken by your Wife moving, then this assumption can assist you in DEILDing. Same thing with HH's. If you are actually in an FA (which is very common after doing SSILD) then you can discover that you are in a new dream scene and be lucid once again! It sounded like this dream started as an FA with your wife waking you in bed and you noticing the weird clock. At the end of the dream, the fact that moments before you were thinking about waking up in order to remember all of your adventures further suggests that this could have triggered an FA initially, perhaps turning into an actual awakening at some point.
Its something I've tryed to compulsively RC after being woken, or whenever I do wake after attempting Lucid. It was a frequent FA thinking someone was waking me. Unfortunatly, despite intentions to RC, I often fall into proper FA...Its interesting that I was considering waking before an event actually did wake me...If I hadn't thought of it, perhaps I'd have slept through it?. How would I use it for a DEILD? Just aim to remain still and go into a DEILD, visualizing dream etc. As said in a previous post, the odd time this works lovely, but sometimes it feels the train has speeded off without me and I'm totally awake...Perhaps its something to respond to quicker and expect to be able to DEILD...