Closest Attempt, Any Advice?

**EG0CENTRAL** · 07-30-2014 09:50 AM

It starts with me walking into a game store (this is a recurring thing in my dreams). I look in my wallet to see I have two $20 bills. The man behind the counter asks if I'm going to pay my debt. I ask how much it is. He stumbles and says 6... uh 8... uh 9. I laugh and say "ok, sixeightnine it is then." I do a lot of things that most people would think to be boring, I check every shelf, I consider all the prices (I do this kind of thing a lot in real life). I was going to buy some Hitman collection on the wii for $15 and Dead Island for $5 (I don't know why since I bought it just a few days ago). Someone else comes in and we hook up a console and try to get Hitman on the wii working. Then it hit me. Hitman isn't on the wii. I'm dreaming; I've got to be. Then that moment I wake up at 4:10 in the morning (much earlier than usual).

Sorry if I sound new at all this (it's because I am), but does anyone know what exactly I did wrong? I really don't know.
(I know that there's quite a few threads like this, and that's exactly why I'm doing this. There's too many for me to wade through to find the advice I'm looking for.)

**Mystycal** · 07-30-2014 12:26 PM

If you suddenly got excited because you became lucid, there's your answer to why you woke up. If you didn't really feel any different, then your subconscious just might have decided to wake you up because lucidity felt wrong to it.
Either way, the solution is practice, and grounding yourself in the dream. Try to hold on to the dream, if you feel it fading touch whatever you find within reach and concentrate on how it feels and looks. If you do that, the dream scene shouldn't dissolve and should instead gain clarity. Even if you don't feel the dream fading yet, it's a good idea to still ground yourself in the dream as soon as you become lucid

**Azul** · 07-30-2014 07:46 PM

Well as much as people say stabilize I find it easier said than done. You'll just have to go through a phase of excitement in your LDs until you get used to the feeling. If the dream is really that shaky then go ahead and stabilize other than that don't, because it's a mental thing. If you feel like you have to stabilize then by default you feel like it's going to come to an end.

**serialdreamer** · 07-31-2014 12:03 AM

Azul, yeah i agree. I just started inducing LD´s and had som sucess but i had two days now which i tried new routines and technique´s which made me have none. This morning i went back to my previous style of inducing and i finally went LD again. The problem was that when realizing i was dreaming(failed WILD attempt followed by DILD´s) after looking up in the sky i tried rubbing my hands for the first time which made me get trown out of it. Lucky as i was i later got one more which lasted a little longer and i finally got to fly a bit in an induced one. But i think i will wait with stabilizing until a month or something when my brain is more used to it.

**Azul** · 07-31-2014 12:36 AM

Originally Posted by serialdreamer

Azul, yeah i agree. I just started inducing LD´s and had som sucess but i had two days now which i tried new routines and technique´s which made me have none. This morning i went back to my previous style of inducing and i finally went LD again. The problem was that when realizing i was dreaming(failed WILD attempt followed by DILD´s) after looking up in the sky i tried rubbing my hands for the first time which made me get trown out of it. Lucky as i was i later got one more which lasted a little longer and i finally got to fly a bit in an induced one. But i think i will wait with stabilizing until a month or something when my brain is more used to it.

That's good, there's no need to rush into things. Take things slow and actually learn how the dream realm works. I know it may be hard but when you initially become lucid, take a moment to let everything sink in. Go about the dream as if you didn't become lucid, in return you're actually giving your subconscious time to stabilize things out for you.

**ThreeCat** · 07-31-2014 02:35 AM

Lot of good advice here. LDing is a "forever hobby"--you will never be perfect at it. Important thing is to stay consistent with your practice. If anything, it sounds like you're doing something right, as opposed to wrong.

Also, maybe it was just the end if a REM cycle. They do not always run like clockwork. At any rate, good job on your practice. It is paying off.