Thread: Reality Checks and Grounding make me lose lucidity.

Hi guys, one thing that has been notable in my DILD's is that when I perform RC's or Ground myself (become aware of all my senses) it actually causes the dream to collapse or to fracture.

I know the typical reason for this is that beginner LD'ers panic too much or focus on their physical body and this causes the dream to disappear, with me I notice that a dream is vivid and become lucid, I assume that by performing RC'ers and Grounding myself that the dream will enhance and become more vivid, instead I instantly notice the opposite the dream instead becomes destabilized even if I stand still and remain calm. Its gotten to a point where in my last lucid dream I merely decided to not become lucid to prevent the dream from collapsing.

I understand that my own fear that lucidity will destabilize the dream is a huge contributor, but believe my when I say this even when I did not carry this worry it seemed that the dream would almost instantly begin to break apart from the mere process of becoming lucid.