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...