I’m getting better at having LD’s. The last months I’ve had a good number of them. But I still have a problem: I wake up! A great number of my LD’s are less than a minute or maybe a few minutes. Rarely I have a 15 minute one.
I think my problem is the way I think in the dream, my state of mind. As most of my LD’s are short I usually expect to wake up at any minute, and I guess that expectation kills the LD 
. Even if I try to tell myself to stay calm and remember that I can have a long LD I end up waking up. I guess I still expect waking up, deep down.
When I have longer LD’s (around 10-15 minutes, I guess) I end up thinking “hey, this LD is kinda long!” and I wake up! 
I don’t think it’s a matter of rubbing hands or spinning since I do those… (actually I can’t get spinning to work that well 
) I think it’s a matter of geting into the right state of mind. I’d like some advice here 
because it’s kinda hard for me. It’s usually hard for me to be in a LD and think about the LD itself. It would be great to be able to tell myself I can have a long LD in a way I truely beleive it…
It would also be nice to hear if other people have this problem. And sorry to the mods if this is in the wrong forum.
thanks for reading. 
