Since July I've been keeping a dream journal to help with recall, but I've made no conscious effort to become lucid (WILD etc).

However, in the past couple months I will become lucid in the middle of a normal dream for whatever reason (be it noticing a dream sign, or just having the message "I'm dreaming" enter my head). On all of these occasions I lose lucidity in a matter of seconds. In the four or five times this has happened, I have tried methods to prolong lucidity on two of them; once I tried spinning and once I tried a verbal command. I experienced no success with either method.

I am eager to try WILD and experience a true LD, but I am worried about putting a lot of effort into it and becoming lucid only to wake up a few seconds later. I am frustrated enough with the failures I have experienced thus far, and am not looking forward to failing again. Does anyone have a definite method of keeping lucidity once it is attained that I can try next time I have a DILD, or if I feel up to WILD?

Thanks in advance. Good luck and have a nice day.