Dream Stability Help

[wRembrandt]

Hi everyone, I've gotten to a point where I can reliably induce a WILD every other day or so. Yet, they all have been under 30 seconds for the most part. Each time the transition happens, I stand up from my bed in my dream body and immediately rub my hands. Either one of two things happen: the dream ends and I wake up or I lose lucidity and continue dreaming. Hand rubbing and grabbing things hasn't extended the lucid dream time. Any tips?

[lucidbunnie]

I'm fairly experienced lucid dreamer, but because of my anxiety, depression, and sleeping disorders I have to take sleeping aids on top of other meds to sleep everyday. I have yet to reliably induce a WILDs. However, I can give you suggestions. The ideal situation for long dream would be to time it so it's in a longer REM stage. Other than that, stabilizing in a dream can go more than rubbing hands. People have lots of labels for things that it can be all over the place, but what you do is anchor yourself with the dream. Sight, sounds, physical sensations etc. Try to immerse yourself in the environment and detach yourself from the body laying on the bed. Rubbing hand usually works as a quick stabilizer as it immediately helps us engage our senses even if other senses such as sight or sound are a bit vague. I found it very helpful to examine the environment around me and touch everything within my reach and feel the different textures. You have to keep a proper balance between staring and darting with yours eyes. Another thing that can help is voice commands such as "stabilize". Another way is through triggers. This is probably not something you'll find in lucid dreaming books or courses, but based on experimentation it works for me. In addition to reality checks I integrate triggers into my practice. For example, I take two of my fingers on my right hand and tap my right temple and say in my head or out loud "stabilize". You can program various combination of triggers. You can even make snapping your finger as a trigger for a lucid command. Triggering lucid commands has helped me prolong my dreams quite a bit among perform other activities. Hope it helps. ^^

[ryytytut]

I'm fairly experienced lucid dreamer, but because of my anxiety, depression, and sleeping disorders I have to take sleeping aids on top of other meds to sleep everyday. I have yet to reliably induce a WILDs. However, I can give you suggestions. The ideal situation for long dream would be to time it so it's in a longer REM stage. Other than that, stabilizing in a dream can go more than rubbing hands. People have lots of labels for things that it can be all over the place, but what you do is anchor yourself with the dream. Sight, sounds, physical sensations etc. Try to immerse yourself in the environment and detach yourself from the body laying on the bed. Rubbing hand usually works as a quick stabilizer as it immediately helps us engage our senses even if other senses such as sight or sound are a bit vague. I found it very helpful to examine the environment around me and touch everything within my reach and feel the different textures. You have to keep a proper balance between staring and darting with yours eyes. Another thing that can help is voice commands such as "stabilize". Another way is through triggers. This is probably not something you'll find in lucid dreaming books or courses, but based on experimentation it works for me. In addition to reality checks I integrate triggers into my practice. For example, I take two of my fingers on my right hand and tap my right temple and say in my head or out loud "stabilize". You can program various combination of triggers. You can even make snapping your finger as a trigger for a lucid command. Triggering lucid commands has helped me prolong my dreams quite a bit among perform other activities. Hope it helps. ^^ those trigers sound usfull for more then stabalisation