Try different stabilization techniques - one of them is bound to work. Touch other objects, breathe in the air, even eat something - you just need to stimulate one of the senses. |
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I've had about 25 or so LD's, but only one has been longer than a few seconds. |
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Try different stabilization techniques - one of them is bound to work. Touch other objects, breathe in the air, even eat something - you just need to stimulate one of the senses. |
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DILD - 42 | WILD - 14 | OBE - 0 | AP - 0
Try spin or just take your time to look at everything, just feel items around you. Try make it all clear. Yet I haven't done stabilization yet but I did lots of research and yea. |
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Lucid dreams make your dreams come true!!
Not out of personal experience; but through research I would recommend trying to interact with objects in your environment... take a breath of air, touch objects, if there is any food taste it (or if you fancy taking a bite out of a chair), etc.. |
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After becoming lucid, take your time. Don't rush off doing things. Make yourself part of the dream. Touch your hands, clap, feel your clothes, the ground, nearby wall or other objects. Smell the air, taste something. Happy dreams |
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I think it comes with a time. I had this problem too, even when I was doing stuffs for control dream. I think, most important is to slowly do anything, do not immediately trying something awesome. Don't rush. And don't think about the length of your dream. For me is usually better, when I now Im in a dream, but I don't do any RC, when I do, the dream ends immediately (It's weird, but if you know It is dream, you don't need RC anyway). |
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Singing and praying for God ( or something similar ) to keep my lucidity are two very effective ways to anchor me in the dream. Praying is also interesting because you are putting the stabilization responsability in the hands of God and not yourself |
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Check your memory, did any suprising event happpen ? does the present make sense ? visualize what you will do when lucid, and how. Reality check as reminder of your intention to lucid dream tonight. Sleep as good as you can; when going to sleep, relax and invite whatever comes with curiosity. Grab your dream journal immediately as you awake and write everything you can recall (if only when you wake up for good). Keep calm, positive and persistent, and don't forget to have fun along the way
Thanks for all your replies. |
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Check your memory, did any suprising event happpen ? does the present make sense ? visualize what you will do when lucid, and how. Reality check as reminder of your intention to lucid dream tonight. Sleep as good as you can; when going to sleep, relax and invite whatever comes with curiosity. Grab your dream journal immediately as you awake and write everything you can recall (if only when you wake up for good). Keep calm, positive and persistent, and don't forget to have fun along the way
When you say you tried rubbing your hands together, did you REALLY try to rub them together, or did you just picture it happening and try to imagine the feeling and sound vaguely? |
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I have a similar issue in most of my lucid dreams. I've never really done any stabilization techniques on purpose, but one lucid dream I had that seemed to be 20 minutes long incorporated one sort of by accident. I realized I was dreaming, and focused first on what was going on around me. I decided to just go with the plot of the dream instead of changing things, except for things like being able to fly, and being unharmed when shot or stabbed etc. I think what gab said about making yourself part of the dream is extremely helpful. |
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"Above All, Love"
~Unknown~
So last night I woke naturally at about 4 and took Galantamine. I had a couple of vivids before a lucid. In the lucid I was walking in a shopping mall and as I passed by one shop I noticed a very ornate Chinese lantern hanging over the door. I immediately became lucid, but this time I was more calm and less excited. I looked at my hands but they seemed completely normal, so I did the nose pinch RC, which at first seemed to fail because there was a leak, so I pinched a bit harder and I could obviously breathe even though my nose was sealed, but as I did that I seemed to float up some stairs and then the dream faded. |
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Could be. Once, in a dream, anesthesia actually woke me from the dream. So, on the flip side, do something that makes you more "awake" |
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I've had this problem for a while (most of my LDs are a few seconds long, and maybe 1-2 lasted longer), but today I managed to have a slightly longer lucid dream. The key for me was basically what gab said: slow down, stop rushing or thinking about how I might wake up, etc. I actually looked around for once (and looked at what I was wearing, too. Funny how I never thought to do that before) and managed to stop myself from jumping off my balcony like I usually do. I focused on being in the dream instead of real life (though that vacuum cleaner running outside of my bedroom didn't help much). Hopefully I'll manage to do that again and figure out the best way to stabilize so I can go off and do something fun |
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If you do wake up, and notice that you're still a bit tired, don't move or open your eyes. You are already heavily relaxed and aware, so it is much easier to consciously fall asleep again. |
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Kind of skimmed the thread, don't know if it's already been mentioned, but on top of what everyone else says (try different techniques and try to really stay in the dream and feel the dream around you), don't expect that it won't work or that you'll wake up. I know it sounds a little weird and difficult, but when you start stabilizing and you start thinking "Well I don't know if this will wor-" |
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My name is Max. I write ambient music and play video games.
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65% DILDs, 30% DEILDs, 5% WILDs.
"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." -Voltaire
That hand technique you're using was originally intended as a reality check, not a stabilization techniques. Any artist knows hands are notoriously difficult to draw, in RL or in a dream, so there is a high probability of anomalies when you look at your hands. The kind of anomalies that draw your attention, which amplifies them, letting you know you are in a dream. |
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A similar thing happened to Me at one point and it soon became clear that it was the Stabilisation Techniques themselves that were the problem as doing them automatically made Me think about waking up. |
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If you only have the skills to do so you can experience anything you can imagine as real.
To expand on what Maxis and Cusp wrote...building your attention physically, will often help in dreaming as well. |
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