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Pre-bed mild alcohol consumption WBTB - 3:30AM Ultra low dose of caffeine <=25MG, 200MG B6 Changed location to recliner to WILD. Failed. Was on the verge of a DILD. I was becoming analytical when I was awakened by a crying baby at almost 4:40AM. Yep right at peek time. I think the dose was low enough to stay asleep that time too. I was very groggy. Back to bed at 5:45AM. Wife's alarm goes off at 6:00. I lye perfectly still and wait for <PERSON>. Nothing happened right away so I started to recall the dream. I slip back into sleep. Curious thing here. Perhaps I am not giving enough time to <PERSON>. If it does not happen right away I give up. Next time, I will wait at least a few minutes if I can. The problem is that I am certain to lose the dream recall if I attempt <PERSON> and there is no guarantee that I will hit <PERSON>. I have fallen back into non-lucid dream with zero recall while failing <PERSON>. I suppose its worth trying a few night a week even if it kills recall. 1 lucid is worth 100 non lucids. So, I fall back to sleep non-lucid but I end up having a very brief DILD. The fact that it was so short is due to the fact that I temporarily chose to give up lucidity as a way to keep the current dream going. I was actually trying to postpone my awareness for just a bit but I lost concentration for obvious reasons. Wife's Doppelganger Since the alarm went off I was thinking my wife turned it off and got into the shower. I can hear the shower water running. But when I roll over I see my wife lying next to me. For whatever reason we begin to have sex. In the throws of passion I wonder about the woman in the shower. How can my wife be there and here. Something about her feels off. Not physically but more like an extra sense of discerning. I almost felt like I was cheating on her with someone that looks like her while she was just in the next room. Then I think, "Of course, I am dreaming!" At that instant the dream goes black. I really did not want what was happening to end so I acted on instinct instead of thinking straight. I let go of my awareness a bit. I said, "No no no no no.. OK not yet. I do not have to be lucid now. Afterwards I will be lucid." The dream resumes and we pick up were we left off. I briefly wonder what the interruption was but have no memory of being lucid. I dismiss it with other explanations. Afterwards, This version of my wife disappears and I have a FA. I think I about the dream I just had and get out of bed. I hear my wife get out of the shower and lay back down pretending to be asleep. She asks me rather disgusted, "What were you doing?" "Nothing. Why?" She walks around the bed and picks up a towel. "What were you doing with my towel? Look at it. It is a mess" Embarrassed, I think I must have humped the towel in my sleep. I jump and sit straight up when my wifes snooze alarm goes off. I am shocked to see her next to me in bed still.