I just recently got interested in lucid dreaming. Read Laberge “LD” and am finishing Waggoner “LD: Gateway to inner self” now. Have beed trying mostly intention before going to bed and counting down (one, I am dreaming; two, I am dreaming…) as I am falling asleep.
In the ~ 2 months that I have been reading and trying, I’ve had 3 lucid dreams. In one of them I just realized it’s a dream and got so excited that I woke up immediately.
In the other two I am having the same problem for “hitting” a “black wall”. I become lucid and usually start gliding right away. In the last one, i also managed to fly where I directed my attention, fly through a wall. But very shortly after a little bit of flying I hit a “black wall”, meaning I can’t see (dark) or move. I try to come out of this (e.g. tried spinning by Laberge), but fail and loose lucidity (usually just go back to sleep).
Any ideas how to get out of this “black hole”?
I also haven’t seen any dream characters so far, but my couple of LDs have been very short. I mostly fly.