How to stop from "Greying Out"?

Every time I've ever gone lucid, it will only last for what feels like a minute, before my vision disolves and turns into a light grey color, forcing me awake. I've been trying to stop from greying out so the dreams can last longer, but I can't - it's like watching water slip through my fingers. I'm not sure what's causing it, and I don't seem to get overly excited or anything that I've heard tends to force you awake.

Does anyone else have this problem? And does anyone know how to keep this from happening once I'm lucid?

Try: spinning, rubbing your hands together, looking at your hands, focusing on the details of your surroundings.

If you do gray out, try to re-enter the dream by not moving and visualizing the last scene from your dream.

Sometimes you just can't stop it, you can't sleep forever. Like Moonbeam mentioned at the end of his post, try just letting it happen. Come out of the dream and don't move a muscle, not even your eyes. Then re-enter the dream lucidly. It's called a DEILD, and it's nearly 100% if you do it correctly.

yeah re-entering works great!! i highly reccoment it. often times when I'm having an LD it will fade to black sooner or later leaving me concious and awake but with my eyes still closed...if you keep your eyes closed and just imagine something...i always imagine looking at my hands because I do that in LDs a lot, but I suppose it could be anything...pretty soon that imagined object will start to materialize in front of your eyes and then more dream elements will manifest around you and if it works right you can just conciously enter the dream

I also found that using the finger induction technique really helps for reentering dreams :) I re-entered a dream 4 times yesterday by doing that.

Of course its always better when I don't have to.. but sometimes I just plain forget to stabilize the environment or look at my hands or something :(

I sometimes have this problem and I have figures out that my dreams usually have an overall storyline so I when I become lucid and have nothing to do next, my mind thinks that the dream has ended and everything just fades so I always have to have goals and know what I will do next.

Yah, stabalizing the dream is key to remaining lucid ever. I usualy do a few extra RC's and rub my hands together as soon as I become lucid. For instance, this weekend i was dreaming about riding ATV's with my brother when I became lucid. I couldn't do any stabalizing because I was doing 60. I launched off a jump, had an awesome crash, got up, and I don't remember much afterward. I probably lost lucidity.

Bit of a necropost here, but kind of an update on how it's working out for me. I've realized that I am almost always aware that I'm dreaming, but I rarely take advantage of that fact, and when I do, I always grey out. I tried rubbing my hands together, but I don't quite think it worked. I'm going to keep working on it, see if I can stop from greying out. I've ruled out getting excited about being lucid, since I keep my cool pretty well, but something is preventing me from staying lucid for more than a few moments. Will think (and dream) more on this.