Thread: LD with no stabalization on purpose :-/

Hi, i had a DILD last night (i was in my frontroom and noticed something odd) As i became lucid, the scene was very realistic with a high level of clarity and my awareness was very high, in fact it was the most realistic LD ive had. On realization that i was lucid my first thought was to clarify and deepen the dream but I then thought to myself "Hey this is already really stable and clear" so i didnt bother and flew through the window out into a very realistic and clear street, i flew down the road and the dream vanished and i woke up. Throughout al of this short (15 seconds) lucid dream i was very self aware and the whole dream was very vivid.

Should I still have deepened and stabilized this lucid dream when it really felt unneeded due to the already exisiting level of clarity, was it a mistake to just continue with the lucid dream without continually grounding myself

Its only because it was so realistic that i didnt bother.

Thanks guys
Ezzo

Well I wouldn't say it was a mistake. What I would say is that stabilizing the dream, regardless of how realistic it already is, is always a good habit to take: it makes you that much more familiar with it and so that much more likely to remember to do it in lower quality lucid dreams.
A nice thing to strive for would be to associate lucidity with stabilization, imo.

Originally Posted by Higat

Well I wouldn't say it was a mistake. What I would say is that stabilizing the dream, regardless of how realistic it already is, is always a good habit to take: it makes you that much more familiar with it and so that much more likely to remember to do it in lower quality lucid dreams.
A nice thing to strive for would be to associate lucidity with stabilization, imo.

I dont understand why my high quality lucid dream ended after 15 seconds, i remained calm and there were no external noises

They vary in length. You might have gotten unlucky and happened to have that dream and become lucid right at the end of that REM period when you were just about to wake up. That happens all the time to me, especially since the times I'm most likely to be lucid seem to be right when I'm close to waking up. But over time, I do have some LDs that are longer than others, so the more LDs I have, the more long ones I have.

I personally don't worry too much about stabilization if the dream feels stable already. If I start feeling like I'm about to wake up, I'll often stop for a moment to take in the dream scene and refocus. With time and familiarity, it seems to become an almost automatic action.

I understand your frustration. I always feel cheated when my LDs are shorter than 2-3 minutes. I usually only use stabilization techniques when my clarity starts to fade. When my LD ends prematurely I try to hold still and attempt a DILD which often works. Beware of a FA if you try this always doing whatever RC you use.