How to stay lucid.

**skillsforilz** · 03-12-2011 06:49 PM

I'm starting to Lucid Dream now, I've had 3 in total. My first was a few weeks ago. And I had two in one night 2 days ago. The only problem I have is staying Lucid. I tend to just lose lucidity within 10 to 15 seconds. I've heard this sometimes happens your first few times with Lucid Dreams, but I just want some advice on staying Lucid. And no, I'm not freaking out when I realize I'm dreaming. I'm always calm and relaxed, I just either black out and go into some other dream and lose lucidity, or wake up.

**~~MasterMind~~** · 03-12-2011 07:05 PM

Hey! Welcome to Dreamviews .)

When you realise that you are dreaming stay calm and relaxed then you can rub your hands to make the dream more vivid.
To increase the lucidity level touch as many objects that you can see aggressively. If you are in your bedroom touch the bed, the floor, your body, do everything to activate your senses in the dream.
Pick something up and examine the shape in every detail. Now when the dream is stable you should already have figured out a routine that you want to do.
Never stay still in a dream, it may result in an awakening, allways be active.

Here is a video with a girl that show you how to perform these techniques

YouTube - Astral Projection, OBE, Lucid dreaming, techniques - lesson 6

**skillsforilz** · 03-13-2011 12:05 AM

Originally Posted by MasterMind

Hey! Welcome to Dreamviews .)

When you realise that you are dreaming stay calm and relaxed then you can rub your hands to make the dream more vivid.
To increase the lucidity level touch as many objects that you can see aggressively. If you are in your bedroom touch the bed, the floor, your body, do everything to activate your senses in the dream.
Pick something up and examine the shape in every detail. Now when the dream is stable you should already have figured out a routine that you want to do.
Never stay still in a dream, it may result in an awakening, allways be active.

Here is a video with a girl that show you how to perform these techniques

YouTube - Astral Projection, OBE, Lucid dreaming, techniques - lesson 6

Thanks for the help. I'll try to keep that in mind for tonight. And one thing I noticed now is that now I start to have LD's more often and like, I just know I'm dreaming for some reason. It's not because of something bizzare, it's just that I somehow know I'm dreaming and I forget to really grasp what's going on.

**chase** · 03-13-2011 12:05 AM

Do a RC right when you realize that you are dreaming. Make sure it is clear in your head that you are dreaming, and remember that it's a dream and not reality. The second your mind excepts what you are seeing as "real life" then you will go right back to dreaming again, thus losing control and no longer having lucidity. Aside from waking up, sometimes we can't avoid this since most of our lucid dreams occur towards the end of a dream or R.E.M. cycle so you were likely going to wake up anyway. -Chase

**Erii** · 03-15-2011 05:46 PM

Something that I do, is voice commands. I find this works for me the best, just yell out "CLARIFY THIS DREAM" or something, and like someone else said, try to initiate all of your senses, pick things up, etc. This helps me too

**acnarm** · 03-18-2011 10:34 PM

Okay here's an interesting thing that helped me. When i became lucid, the Dream Characters had fuzzy faces (they looked kinda scary actually) and it was kind of freaking me out, as they looked like ghosts. I then tried an interesting thing to make the dream more vivid and to strengthen my lucidity. What i did was focus on a gate that was opposite me and looked at it. I tried to zoom into the gate and tried see if i could read tiny writing on it. The focus somehow resulted in my surroundings becoming ever so vivid, and as a result i maintained my lucidity. (obviously there may not be a gate in your lucid dream but i suggest you focus carefully on any thing in the dream and see if u can find the smallest possible detail to focus on)