The last few days I have been having frequent LDs while practicing WILD. But they arent lasting loong and they all end the same way: I rub my hands to get things more vivid, but insted I end up waking.
They all happend in the morning during light sleep. My dream body is hard to move and feels partally paralized and its hard or impossible to speak.
Can my problems be caused by the fact that I am sleeping to light and is still somehow connected to my real body? Or can there be something else causing this problem? Should i stop rubbing my hands?
Morning LDs usually aren’t very long for me at least, probably because of light sleep as you say. And LDs that starts early in the night are usually longer. But waking up when rubbing hands seems strange. I usually touch my environment to prolong LDs.
When i rub my hands it feels like Im falling asleep in the dream before I wake up in my bed shortly after. Strange?
As you say, LDs earlier in the night feels more stabel and I have been rubbing my hands in them with out waking, but its a few weeks since the last. I find it easier to have LDs in the morning
It is probably because of the light sleep, you just end up focusing on your real body when attempting to move the dream one. You should stabilize and reinforce the dream without moving, you could for example focus more on the dream environment and the senses that are available to you now. Just take it patiently, and put yourself in a deeper sleep by stabilizing the dream before attempting something else
Not all techniques work for everyone. I, for one, know that rubbing my hands together doesn’t work for me. I find that what helps me increase lucidy is jumping up and down or taking off an article of clothing. If you feel like you’re starting to loose lucidy, try grabbing hold of an object and pulling yourself towards it. This acts as an anchor to the dream, so you’ll stay in it.
Funny you should mentio that dunlar. I actually did something like it this morning. When I woke up from a LD I just laid there to trying to remember as much detail of the dream as possible, but I fell asleep again before I got the time to write it down. Than I continued the dream where I let go in the last one, but I had lost my ludicity though
And yes, it did help to grab o hold of something when I felt the dream fading . I fell on the floor (in the dream) and grabbed a nearby table. So me and the table slided around on the floor like the gravity was shifting from side to side, untill it suddenly stopped and I could stand up again. I dont think I had made it trough that without the table