Thread: Keeping Lucidity In The Beginning?

okay so I've read all the threads about establishing lucidity right off the bat, looking closely at the details of your hand or if its really fading spinning around very fast...

in the past 2 weeks I've had 3 lucid dreams where I realize im dreaming, the only problem is I lose lucidity in about 5 seconds at the max.

my lucid dream last night was very cool because I woke up, concentrated on the dream I was just in and in less than 10 seconds I actually felt myself dropping into 2-3 deeper states of consciousness and eventually heard some kind of weird noise and had lucidity for 5 seconds and then lost it...

the very SECOND i gain lucidity what should be the first thing I do to keep consciousness? I've had a lot of lucid dreams recently (thanks to the in depth reality checks) I just cant capitolize on them...

I've read that staying calm helps a lot, along with spinning and everything else.

I have the same prob. The the other night I felt the dream distorting and fading like I was about to wake. I started rubbing my hands together hard enough to realy feel it. I could feel the friction making my dream hands hot. It worked.

The funny thing was there was so much commotion with the DCs that I forgot about it. Then I decied to do a trick for them. I was going to make myself glow with white light. The moment I started this I woke up.

It seems to me that every time I try something this advanced or something that realy takes a lot of concentration or immagination I wake up.

But try the hand rubbing. It seemed to help me. That is until I lost concentration.

1. stay calm
2. get on your knees and look at your hands/rub them

Keep in mind that if you do these and you still wake up you could have just been unlucky and were at the end of your REM cycle.

your not going to believe the dream I just had... I realized I was dreaming and when I gained lucidity I had on these two motorcycle racing gloves for some reason.. I started to rub them together but there was too much friction so I was taking them off.. got the first one off, went for the second one but before I could get them off to rub my hands together I of course lost my lucidity... another thing to add is when i dropped to my knees I was in some cave and I saw a window in the ground that I found very odd.. I think seeing this might have made me not focus on my hands as much and it was just bad luck that this happened to be on the ground where I dropped to my knees.

2nd LD in 2 days and both aren't working i've got some great luck.. haha

Meh, I suck at staying lucid. I've been trying to lucid dream about three months now and am very good at getting lucid (since my first one, about two weeks after I started, I've been getting 3/4 a week), although they rarely last longer than 20-30 seconds and I can't really do much in them. The only thing I can really do is walk through windows and vaguly change the scenery.

My dreams don't fade either, I just feel a weird waking sensation then a second later I'm awake (or in a completly unrelated dream, with "memories" or what has just been happening, even though it hasn't - which is weird to say the least)