hey everybody,

god I love having a site like this to come discuss. I've been having LD's intentionally since last february, for about 4 months I would have between 1 - 7 in a week, my longest lasting one being 10 minutes. During summer my life was kind of hectic and I sort of let my dreams fall to the back of my mind, but for the past month 2 month's I've been pretty heavy back into it. Right now, I'm probably having one lucid dream a week, lasting about 5 minutes.I'm becoming frustrated with the fact that no matter what technique I seem to use, my dream will fade.. and I can't always do everything I would like to do.

For example, my last LD I began to fly and repeated over and over to myself "I will not awake, my dream will not fade" and it worked for a bit, increasing vividness and my senses. Any premature technique pretty much does this for me, working temporarily.

I guess what I really want to get down to is, I want to be able to have lucid dreams that last as long as I want them to, and I want my subconscious mind to be the narrator.. I'm wanting something more spiritual and self-exploring than just being the controller and satisfying desires.

Has anybody had this problem and if so can you help me solve my problem?