Dream Fades frequently, end up DEILDing repeatedly to get back in.

[Alucinor XIII]

I'm a fairly experienced lucid dreamer-- not to mention I've read just about every tutorial. Pretty often in my lucid dreams, I start to feel the dream slipping away-- things start to blur and vision goes black. When I first started out this happened almost every time I became lucid and led to waking up. It pissed me off enough that I quit for a while. Now-a-days, it doesn't happen nearly as often, but its quite frustrating when it does. I'm familiar with stabilizing and do so every time I become lucid, but it doesn't stop it from happening. Fortunately, I've learned to DEILD pretty damn good, and I can almost always just lie still and relax and visualize my way back into the dream. But its still damn annoying! And if it happens once, when I DEILD back into the dream it almost always happens again shortly. Anyone else encounter this? EDIT: I've tried spinning, grabbing onto things in the dream to ground me, and pure willpower, but it doesn't seem to help. The only thing I can do is let everything go black, and then re-visualize the scene.

[TheNightFlier]

I'm no expert but perhaps your REM period is ending? I have the same problem but i'm not the best at DEILD. I've only managed to do it twice and i thought i was doing WILD's. But I did research and found out They were DEILD's instead. Best of luck to you!

[Sambo96]

I also experience this however I always wake up into a false awakening that eventually turns back into the dream. This can happen about 5 times and no stabilisation tricks seem to work. Hopefully I can fix this soon. Happy dreaming!