Speed bump to lucidity (after overcoming 'excitedly lucid'}

Quest for Lucidity
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“Autonomic functions”
So i am practiced at recalling dreams after each REM. I remember thorougly without moving. This is useful for on the 3 dream i can become lucid at will. The problem is these “lucid moments” are nothing like the length and depth of a full on lucid dream.

I have had 1 full length lucid dream where time exisited and i hung out for 20~ minutes having lucid fun adventures. Now when i try to “remember that feeling” i am not so exicted that i wake up, but im stuck on some baseless expectation that i must wake up if i realize im dreaming

This is like tacid consent by my subconscious. My intentions are to stay lucid but my mind is for some reason to go from “realize im dreaming” to “conscious switching to awake state” IM not exxcited about it , it just happens without control! like breathing or a heartbeat.

Someone with exprience or a new dreamer wanna help me out? anything i can do to get rid of this auto habit and get back to kinky sex adventure lucid love time?

EDIT
After more thought on the subject it dawned on me that I used this technique to escape nightmares as a kid. I need help help breaking a self defense mechanism.I cant continue a dream once i realize im dreaming, it falls apart on me instinctively.

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After my first LD I indoctrinated myself that I would wake up as soon as I said or even thought something like “I’m dreaming!”. The thing was that I woke up after I screamed that in my first LD, but I didn’t realized that I woke up because of my excitement. I had a hard time to get rid of this thought because I’ve been so sure about it that my dreams always became unstable and all even after I knew that I was wrong with it. :tongue:

The only thing you can really do is to convince yourself that realizing you are dreaming doesn’t mean that you must wake up. Reading other people’s DJ and seeing how they are nowhere near waking up is also a good idea. Read about the dream prolonging techniques, they all work. Other than that, practice, practice, practice! It might seem hard, but eventually you (or your SC, that is) will realize that being lucid doesn’t result in being awake. And remember, you have already had a long LD, so you are definitely able to do this!

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I think I have this problem too :sad: I got so used to having short unstable LD’s that now unconsciously I expect them to be like that… It’s really hard to fully convince yourself of the opposite!