Sudden Wakeup

[TMR]

Last night i think i became lucid for the first time when i was worried in my dream that my phone was broken and i couldnt contact my parents. At one point I thought "wait it doesnt matter if i cant call them, im dreaming" at that point it seems that I almost instantly woke up and lost the dream. Is there anything i can do to prevent this?

[Shiznit]

Mostly, the problem is that your subconscious wakes you up once you fully recognize that you're dreaming . Just try to calm down and say to yourself , I'm dreaming , so what ? Will overcome that by time .

[Redeyedwolfking]

I've found that calming down helps a lot. The best thing to do though is just to stay completely still upon awakening. If you do this right you won`t wake up completely and you can go right into another dream fairly easily using visualization. It doesn`t always work but I`ve found if you have a habit of doing this then it`s not rare to get 5+ lucid dreams right after the first successful one.