Need help - 5 second lucid dreams

Ok so I'm having problem with my lucid dreams. I pretty often - atleast once a week realize in dream that I'm dreaming so I get lucid. Mostly I don't even do RC in the dream. I just get a feeling like "wait this is dream". So the problem is this: my lucids don't last more than like 5 seconds. For example last night I saw very realistic dream. I was in our kitchen. I looked outside and there were many cars on our lot. Then I saw many cars of same kind. I started thinking it's a dream. And I got lucid. I tried to perform RC, but I couldn't before the dream was only the middle 1/9th of my vision and the borders were black. Then the middle got real blurry and it faded fast into awakening. This is happening with all of my lucids. Any advice how to stop this and get good lucids? :)

are you getting to excited when you realize you are dreaming? being too excited about it will wake you up. if thats not it, try to just focus on your senses. right when you become lucid. really focus on your senses. what do you see? what are you hearing? are you feeling anything? any smells? or do you taste anything? focusing on your dream senses brings you away from your physical body and may help you. or if you realize you a dreaming, and you know its going to fade like the others, use the DEILD technique, as it can help you re-enter your last dream, or even create a new dream scene. best of luck!

I'm having the same problem, you could use the MILD technique, telling yourself to stabilize by feeling your surroundings.

Hey Viltsu, the others are quite right! Have you read much on stabilization yet? If not, read this guide and this guide. They're both quite informative. Look through them and pick a few stabilization techniques that might work well for you. Mantras or incubation will help you remember to use the stabilization.

Before you RC in a dream, how confident are you that you're dreaming? If you're 100% confident that you're in a dream, maybe you want to skip the RC and go right to stabilizing. If not, then perhaps use a RC that focuses on your senses. Count your fingers, and analyze your hands while you do it, don't just count the fingers. Look at the details of your skin. Or touch your hand while counting your fingers. Or if you use the nose plug RC, pick something to analyze and stare at as you try to breathe through your nose. So you're performing the RC while still focusing on your surroundings.

Another option is to use a command while RCing. RC while saying "Stabilize now." Find what works for you, you might need to experiment a little.

Good luck!

I have the same problem, and it's incredibly frustrating. My LDs stay stable if I try to follow them, but as soon as I try to control it everything goes poof. No stabilization techniques have worked more than once for me. My longest LD was probably 20 seconds, and I've had at least 60 LDs in the last 4 months.

I've tried focusing on an object (I lose my vision instead), rubbing my hands (I lose movement instead), staring at my feet (once it transported me somewhere else without even thinking about it, usually it ends the dream instead), yell "INCREASE LUCIDITY NOW" while doing something else (does nothing but draw attention to myself instead), and both methods of spinning (same as rubbing my hands).

Once I have complete confidence that it's a dream, it ONLY goes downhill and nothing I can do will salvage it. What am I doing wrong?

It happens to me, sometimes, then i get back to fully dreaming a full dream days after.

Both of you (mutagene and viltsu) try reading the info provided by Caenis and give it a week or two. Report back here with your results. We can go from there.

Pleasant dreams! :)

yes!!! I'm not alone lol anyway I have exactly the same experiance I relize I'm dreaming and then ir all just falls apart and the dream world deteriorats before I can sablise very fustrating