Quote Originally Posted by Shift View Post
What do you do when you first become lucid? You should always take the time to ground yourself by looking down at your own body, noticing how 3-d the dream is, observing and feeling textures, seeing what you can hear and smell and taste... Things like this usually help stabilize you in the dream and prevent you from waking up right away.

Of course, everyone says 'try not to get too excited', but what kind of advice is that, anyway?! I don't think I'll ever be able to hold back my excitement when I find myself lucid. The only advice I can give you is to keep telling yourself "Relax, or you'll wake up and ruin it!" You can still be excited, but marvel as you stabilize/ground/clarify the dream first and make sure you do all those things I mentioned.
I tell myself to relax, and I'd like to say that I'm fairly comfortable with becoming lucid. This was maybe the fourth or fifth time I've had an LD.

However, when I become lucid everything just blacks out instantly. I have no "body" and there is no ground, no surroundings. Just a black nothingness, a reverberation of the last thing I heard in the dream (like a skipping CD) which becomes the sound of my bedroom fan when I awaken, and my consciousness. I briefly tried to rub my "hands" last night when I became lucid, but nothing happened (maybe I didn't do it long enough?) and then I tried spinning, which woke me up.

My only goal right now is to hang onto a lucid state without waking.