Attaining Lucidity, Losing it, Reattaining(Vicious Cycle)?

**EmptyBucket** · 07-23-2013 06:23 PM

Hello,

So this morning I had a lucid(yay), and after about 5 minutes of being lucid
I lost lucidity and woke up(sortof) and jumped back into the dream(DEILD, I guess?).

I then had about 15 seconds of lucidity back, then lost it again, then regained for
a few seconds. After this I woke up and went back to sleep.

1. Is this a common problem in LDing?
2. Is there anyway to prevent falling into this cycle?

Thanks!

The dream(warning : sexual content)
http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/empt...w-dance-48849/

**OpheliaBlue** · 07-23-2013 06:27 PM

Yeah that's an annoying aspect of dream chaining; you can get alot of back to back mini-lucids. I was going to say that it could have been due to the fact that it was time for you to naturally wake up anyway, but then you said you finally woke up and went back to sleep after all that.

In that first 5-minute lucid, what made you lose lucidity then wake up? I mean, was it the result of too much excitement? Same question for the 15 second one.

Also, congrats on attaining lucidity!!

**EmptyBucket** · 07-23-2013 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Yeah that's an annoying aspect of dream chaining; you can get alot of back to back mini-lucids. I was going to say that it could have been due to the fact that it was time for you to naturally wake up anyway, but then you said you finally woke up and went back to sleep after all that.

In that first 5-minute lucid, what made you lose lucidity then wake up? I mean, was it the result of too much excitement? Same question for the 15 second one.

Also, congrats on attaining lucidity!!

Well I was going to save the details but since you asked I was engaging in sexual activity, so I could safely say
I was getting to excited

Also I probably should've stabilized right when I got back in but for some reason, I didn't.

**OpheliaBlue** · 07-23-2013 07:00 PM

Haha nice. 9 times out of 10, I wake up before "finishing" in sex LDs. And that's after years of trying to control it. So, what I've done lately as a compromise, is I'll start out my LDs doing other goals that I want to do, then end with the sex. If there's a good chance of waking me up, then might as well stick it at the end (no pun intended). That way, I can get more things accomplished, and the dream ends up lasting longer. In fact, I find that just being goal-oriented right at the start of the dream acts as a stabilizer. Which is great because thinking too much about stabilizing can bog you down. I just assume the dream is already stable, and move forward with the Task of the Month, or something else that I want to do. Then it's on to WHO I wanna do

**EmptyBucket** · 07-23-2013 07:08 PM

^ Great advice,

Sex in LDs is an appeal to me, shame they make things so unstable.

I walked around for like 2 or 3 minutes and saw attractive girls, next time I'll probably take a chill pill
and explore a bit before that.

Completely unrelated, I've just now realized that I dont remember ever taking my clothes off in that dream,
maybe I was naked all along? lol.

**OpheliaBlue** · 07-23-2013 07:31 PM

Definitely let me know how that goes for you. I know I make myself remember 2 or 3 things that I really want to do, then remind myself before bed, then again when I WBTB. That way they pop in my mind right when I become lucid, or shortly after.

Originally Posted by EmptyBucket

Completely unrelated, I've just now realized that I dont remember ever taking my clothes off in that dream,
maybe I was naked all along? lol.

Haha, gotta love that dream magic.