Finally Stabilized!!!

I've been lucid dreaming for a while now, but I've never been able to stabilize a dream. Averaging a lucid dream every 3 to 5 days, I've been trying for a while to stabilize. I've felt like I tried everything, but my standard lucid dream would only last about 10 to 20 seconds. I've had one that went for maybe a minute. But never enough time to actually do anything.

So last night, I had a LD, and it actually was the earliest in the night I've ever had as well. It lasted a good 5 minutes, maybe a bit longer.

When I became lucid, I was very groggy, and felt like I had to wake up...into the dream. I twisted my head back and forth, and stretched my jawi shouted 'la la la' for some reason...I guess trying to use all my senses. I slapped my cheeks, and started to look around. It worked!!!

This was about 20 seconds into the lucid dream, and I was finally able to look around, move where I wanted, and do what I wanted. I converted woh a dream character...more so as part of the dream. Later on I asked another DC who she was, and I told her that I see her around a lot. I don't remember her, but I wonder if she's a standard DC of mine. I tried to cognitive failed. So I tried again, more floating a bit. I grabbed onto a tree branch about 10 feet high. I turned a circular hint of concrete into a trampoline, so I could jump onto a roof.

All in all, I had a lot of success. Doing things I've never done before, and all because I had more time. It was wonderful! Now I can move on and actually make some goals for myself.

Congrats, quiktaco!!

So much easier when you actually remember to stabilise isn't it?

Get some awesome goals down and let me read about your success :D the best of luck to you!!!

Congratulations, sounds like you have been trying a while to do this! Hopefully you will be able to stabilize more lucids in the future! Nice job and keep it up! :)

Great :) Someday I will manage too ... I have dont it later in the morning but something external have allways woke me up...
One time it was perfectly clear and it felt like reality and I saw a door and imagined Hogwarts behind it, I opened it and I saw the Harry Potter characters when I opened it, then I heard a loud noise and woke up to my mom screaming "IT'S BREAKFAAAAAAAAAST!" -.-

Nice man!

Yeah, I've been trying for a while. Got interested in LD in 2004, but didn't do much beyond some dream journal entries, then forgot about it with finishing up college.

In 2007, I started up again, and became very strict with DJ entries for quite a while. At this point, is when I started having LD's. Very few, and far between. I had a total of 10 in about a year's time. So maybe one a month.

Had my daughter in 2008, and my son in 2010, so not much was accomplished through this time.

Started back up in 2011, again with strict DJ entry, and trying other techniques like sporadic awareness, and reality checking through the day, as well as montra's at night.

In the last 2 months, I've had 12 LD's, so I've been really working on stabilizing, and not much else. Just have wanted to stay in a Lucid longer than 20 seconds.

I was trying so many different techniques, and combining things, but nothing seemed to work.

I think what was different about this time, was that along with engaging as many senses as possible, I also did it while continuing within the dream.

I was walking down the hall in my parents house (don't live there), and that's when I became lucid, so I looked around, and started stretching my jaw and stuff to wake myself up. I got to the front door, and decided to go out. Outside, I continued to clap, then slapped my cheeks, but all while continuing on within the dream, and engaging my sight by looking around.

Previously, most techniques that I've been trying, have said to stop everything, and focus on stabilizing, and focus on nothing but your hands or something. I'd do that, but the rest of the dream world faded away but my hands, and I'd soon wake up.

I think the key was keeping my brain engaged in the dream. When I stopped everything to stabilize, like many techniques say to do, everything would fade pretty quickly.

I think my previous 1 minute LD only lasted that long, because I was taking in the details within the dream. I didn't do any other stabilizing, and I soon feel back into a dream, then woke soon after that. But the dream didn't fade, I just forgot I was dreaming. I guess because I didn't wake myself up into the dream.

Well anyways, thanks for the encouragement. Hopefully I'll have another chance to try this out again in the next few days.