Thread: How do i STAY lucid?

i touch stuff a lot to stabilise the dream and keep me grounded, like when i'm walking around i run my hands along walls or touch leaves on trees. and try feeling what the weather is like in the dream, if its hot or cold windy ect. that can make the dream feel really real, and keep you in stabilised.

Also try to not experience big emotional changes. They wake you up.

It fades to black and then becomes a different dream, or it fades to black and you wake up? If it's the former, you need to work on maintaining lucidity and stability. I'm constantly repeating this is a dream, I'm dreaming, I'm lucid right now, I'm having a lucid dream, etc. as I move around a LD, and this seems to help with that. If it's the latter, you might just be becoming lucid at the end of your sleep cycle and waking up naturally. In that case, just keep at it, this is a sign that you're progressing. The more this happens, the earlier in your cycles you'll start becoming lucid, and they'll last longer.

Originally Posted by JoshGoldie

when i become lucid i am nearly always able to stay lucid for a couplee of minutes, but then without any warning the dream quickly pulls away from me?!
There is no previous clue that the dream is ending, it just suddenly fades quickly to black? any tips on how to stay lucid for longer?

Whenever I feel like i'm being pulled away from the dream I rub my hands together or try touching anything around me from the ground to objects. If that doesn't work I've also yelled out Increase lucidity which has helped a bunch of times as well.

Try these stabilization techniques. For me, the length of my dreams is strongly correlated by how well I stabilize.

1. Take off your clothes. Sounds retarded, but it works. It encourages your dreaming brain to create the sensations of the wind blowing on your body, different surfaces under your feet. Because this is different to your usual waking life, you will pay attention to your body, hence keeping you grounded in the dream.

2. Hand rubbing, touch floor, Push tongue against roof of mouth. Engage sense of touch

3. Concentrate all your attention into the dream. If you practice ADA, or meditation and awareness techniques, try using this awareness in lucids. You can use this as a constant stabilization technique

4. Placebos--Reach into your pocket and take out a "lucidity pill" which increases your lucidity. Shout out increase clarity! and increase lucidity. If you believe the dream will stay stable, most likely, it will.

The dream is already fading! What do I do?!

1. Point your toes towards the floor and smash your leg down hard, breaking your toes. Alternatively, bite your arm. This will shock you back into the dream. Don't worry, it wont hurt (usually)

2. Spinning technique. most common

I do several things. This is called stabilizing or anchoring. It basically keeps the dream going.

1. After becoming lucid, be sure to do reality checks often, to remind yourself that you are dreaming. This can prevent slipping into a non-lucid dream.
2. Rub your hands together, apparently that works. I try to do it as often as I do reality checks during a lucid dream.
3. Like VictoReverie said, dream spinning. It may not work for some people, but it did a pretty good job of increasing the dream's length.

Hope everyone has helped in some way! Good luck.

Lately I've been practicing mindfulness when I'm lucid. Bringing my awareness to my breath and the present moment. It works in waking life and it's been working for my dreaming life too!

what I do is rub my hands together it really seems to work for me and i never seem to lose it quick. hope this works!

Remain calm. On my first lucid dream I was so excited to have been able to tell it was a dream that I woke up instantly afterwards.

Don't have sex.

All of these techniques aforementioned are excellent suggestions. Also, remember, however, that the environment your body is in is just as important. Try to be in a quiet place that will remain quiet. Make sure you're well-fed before you go to sleep so hunger doesn't wake you. Meditate before you sleep so your body and mind are calm. Try to be in as content a state of being as possible.

For me it works best to think that my real body lies in my bed and everything only happens in my head. I know this doesn't sound like it works but it really makes me more lucid.