Thread: Quick tip for prolonging dreams

This night I accidentally discovered a way to prolong my lucid dreams.
In my lucid dreams, I fade from a full-on dream to black very quickly. Often too quickly to use the normal methods like rubbing my hands or spinning to prolong my dreams.

In my lucid dream of last night, I wanted to fly to the clouds. While I didn't succeed in the dream, I did have the idea of clouds in the back of my head all the time.

Pretty soon, my vision started to fade to black, and as it did I noticed that the lights and speckles you have when you close your eyes slightly resembled clouds. I focused on the lights and 'willed' them into clouds. Slowly but surely, the lights started to actually transform into clouds, and the black background started to turn blue. I looked down, and was back in the lucid dream.

I did this four times in a row, and each time I succesfully regained the full dreaming experience, and had one of my best lucid dreams yet.

Note that I never woke up or was concious of my real body during this process, which I guess is what makes this different from techniques like DEILD.

I hope this might help some of you to prolong your lucid dreams.