Keep waking up after becoming lucid

Quest for Lucidity
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Hey everyone, I’m relatively new to lucid dreaming, and have been trying to get one for around a month now. Over the past 3-4 days, I’ve had three dreams in which I’ve realised I’m dreaming, but all three stopped right after I realised.

The first one was pretty much impossible to control in my situation in the dream. I was walking through a pitch black field, when I got scared, and did an RC to assure myself nothing wierd or scary would happen. After my fingers went through my hands (Wierdest feeling I’ve ever experienced) I realised I was dreaming, and looked for something to focus on. But it was pitch black, so I kind of just stood there, and went back to real life.

The second dream was on the same night, after I’d been back to bed. I go to a boarding school, and we were going to breakfast, when I started telling myfriend about the last dream I had. He then proceeded to ask me “Are you sure you’re not still dreaming”, and right after realising, I woke up. I didn’t get a chance to focus on anything, because I woke up pretty much instantly.

The third one was just last night. In my dream, me and a couple of friends invented this sport where you rode down stairs on your bike, and each set of stairs got harder and harder to ride down. I was getting impatient at one point, and so when the referee asked who wanted to go first, I went to the front. I rode a bit too fast, and stopped just before the “final level” as I saw it. Then a small section of the floor just disappeared, and I tried putting my hand on a wall in front of me for balance. The wall then fell away from me, and knocked over another wall behind it. I tried not to fall to the bottom, but toppled over, at which point I became almost lucid. (I said “I won’t hurt myself because this is a dream”) I then hit the bottom, died, and woke up.

These three scenarios were all quite annoying, because I achieved at least some form of lucidity in all three, but woke up at most a couple of seconds afterwards. Does anyone have ay tips on how to make one last longer if I achieve it again?

Thanks in advance for any replies :smile:

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this is EXTREMLY common. happened to me on my one and only lucid dream too :smile: what your spoussed to do, (heard this from computer webbys) is just relax,dont get excited, (you can say “ok, im lucid dreaming”) and if i were you, after all that, know this sounds crazy but spin around in some circles with your arms out. it helps you remain lucid. so after you finnaly think you got all those steps done, go out and explore! :smile: just never get to excited or lose lucidty k? good luck!!

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Ok thanks for the advice! I’ll try to relax next time, seeing as they’re coming on almost every time I dream now :happy: And by the way, in a dream, spinning with your arms out is definately not classed as crazy :tongue:

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any time :smile: welcome to the forum btw :grin: anymore questions just PM me :tongue:

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Rubbing your hands is also a very effective way to keep yourself in the dream. Anything you can do to keep your senses activated will help a lot. Other than that, as you have more dreams you’ll learn better, more personalized ways to extend your LD’s. :content:

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The first thing I have to do whenever I realize I’m in a dream is rub my hands together and focus intently on the sensation. Sometimes I can’t do it in time and I wake up, but if you can manage to remember to do that as soon as possible, it might help you stabilize the dream.

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In real life, try pretending the present situation as if you are dreaming, and try to relax yourself. Repeat this for a few days and i hope this should work :smile: