Thread: Keeping oneself from waking once lucid

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.

Originally Posted by Shift

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.

Originally Posted by MrDoom

However, when I become lucid everything just blacks out instantly. I have no "body" and there is no ground, no surroundings.

That has happened to me twice before, except it is more of a slow fade, and like you I tried rubbing my hands and spinning and then woke up afterwards. I've read on this site that some people try to really focus on other sensations besides sight and that that seems to help. Maybe try sleeping with your fan off and then try to focus on the dream sounds instead?

Hopefully one of those people will reply since I can't find the thread that I am thinking about. My only other advice is to just give it time... those were some of my earlier LDs, before I reached 7, and I haven't had that problem in the last 22 So hopefully with just more experience, it will take care of itself!

Trying other ways besides spinning will probably will do better for you. Don't worry, spinning never worked for me either. Try rubbing your hands and looking around. Get those senses active.

Differents ways, I like to eat chocolate to stop the awakening, but that only works for me, take something that you know you really like in a dream so you won't wake inmediatly.