Thread: Reality Checks and Grounding make me lose lucidity.

Originally Posted by Origami

Maybe you sleep a little too lightly perhaps? That you are barely asleep and when you become lucid you wake up too much in the dream so you wake up for real? That's my uneducated guess.

Greater awareness of stimuli from the dream would pull his awareness away from real world stimuli.

Let me ask you, what exactly are you doing when you try to stabilize? What are you doing physically, and what's going on mentally i.e. what are you focusing on?

Originally Posted by Supernova

Greater awareness of stimuli from the dream would pull his awareness away from real world stimuli.

Let me ask you, what exactly are you doing when you try to stabilize? What are you doing physically, and what's going on mentally i.e. what are you focusing on?

I do the simple stuff: Counting fingers, pushing finger through palm, and blocking my nose. I only ever got the chance once so far, and that time I lost it before I could stabilize. I would have just touched stuff and looked around. As I said, that is my uneducated guess. I get the feeling you are trying to prove me wrong or something, when this is an opinion thread.