Waking up too early

Hi,

I have been trying to lucid dream for over 1 year without much success until last week. The last few days I have had at least 1 lucid dream per night. Also I remember more dreams lately. I have had tons of lucid dreams in the past which didn't last any longer than 10 seconds, so I'm over being too excited when I recognize it's a dream. Yet every time I become lucid, it feels as if I get in a very buzzy vibrative state... I don't know if this is normal? Anyway, I get so overwhelmed by this my dream starts to fade away very quickly. Recently I discovered that by slowly rubbing my hands together clarity returns to the dream scene. I did that yesterday and it worked, however I could not manage to stay in the dream:
In the dream my father was talking about lucid dreaming and telling me how great it was. This made no sense because in real life he is sceptical about its existence. I instantly knew I was in a dream and got the buzzy vibrative state again, but this time I managed to stabalize the dream. My father, however, was not cooperating and trying to stop me from leaving the room!? I mean literally trying to hold me. Therefore I started running to the exit of the building very quickly and when I was outside it felt as if I was running like 100km/h. I felt that I was going to wake up and needed to stabilize the dream again, but I couldn't manage to stop.

So I have two questions:
1. How could you stop moving so fast?
2. How could I have prevented to wake up?
3. Also sometimes I go into another dream scenery and there is no one else but me. How could I, for instance, teleport to my school? I have tried going through doors, but I usually end up somewhere else and dark which causes the dream to fade.

For the first question, it sounded like you started to freak out too much, which (might have; still a new one to LDing) destabilized the dream, and sent you crashing back into reality. Next time, try to calm down, and if your dad gets in the way, just use your telekinesis powers to move him :P

Can't really help out too much with the second one; maybe calm yourself down and realize your in a dream, and nothing can stand in your way?

For the third one, you could try different methods of teleportation: Jump through a mirror/window, call a limo, close your eyes and open them to the new scenario - there's literally endless possibilities to get to a new scenario.

Hope this helps!

Hi, welcome to DV !

First, let me say you have 3 questions, and not two :cheeky: ( do a RC ! )

question 2: I had ( and still have of course in some degree, it´s normal ) a very similar stability issue. and i have lost too a very good amount of LDs in the first 20 seconds. I know how defeated one feels. But you can train yourself to fall asleep again quickly and, most likely, you will reenter the same dream. Ok, you still wake up, but if you can DEILD perhaps you will be less worried, and not so excited, and even if you are it´s not eh end.

For some reason, i am more sleepy in the late hours of sleep, which, fortunately and thank you God, is when REM is juicy and stable. That´s when we have the best chance to fall asleep and reenter the dream. So, an important thing is to sleep more time.