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So the past month or so I've had more lucid dreams than I've ever had, about one every other night and some consecutively. The thing is every time I become lucid, I somehow, someway lose it and the dream goes on. I tell myself everytime what Im going to do if I have a lucid dream it just never works. Any advice would be helpful. Thanks :)
You are most likely losing awareness in a dream because you lack awareness in waking life. Please check out this part of WILD(sageous) tutorial. It's primarilly for WILDs, but the awareness works for other induction techniques as well. Happy dreams:alien:
It's an inability to stay focused and get distracted. And there's certainly a lot of things to get distracted by in dreams.
Meditation might help. In my opinion, meditation is the ability to stay focused on one thing for an extended amount of time. Or if you do reality checks, instead of doing the check and forgetting about it, try to extend that check for as long as possible. Keep checking to see if you're dreaming and try to forget about it by becoming distracted.
Try to keep thinking logically and avoid falling into a routing in the lucid. There's two reasons why we usually lose awareness, the first being is that as we focus on an object we eventually get bored and of focusing and fall into a trail of thought, the second being that if you are too distracted from doing stuff by following a schedule you eventually fall into a routine of doing it, just like when you wait for the bus or as you walk somewhere we often lose our thought. It's easy to counter this by just keep thinking logically and inquisitively and try interacting alot with your scene but in a natural manner so you don't get bored of it.
Short answer: Your not alone with this problem, I also experience it from time to time and my solution and advice to you would be to use the DEILD method or find a way to stay aware closer to the moment you start dreaming. I meditate every night which means that I am sleeping consciously for about one hour when I then start dreaming 30-50 minutes later I end up much more aware because the system that make me critical usually by this time would be lowered only starts to get lowered by this time, which means that I will end up more aware in my dreams than usual.
Long answer: Here is the explanation to why it is so:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93U3F...feature=relmfu
http://www.dreamviews.com/f12/crazyn...3/#post1955014
Very interesting topic, as it's something that I've been thinking about as I work my way around the site like a dog sniffing around in a cow paddock.
I first attempted meditation in 1969 when there were less than 50 active TM'ers in Australia, and though I had a peak experience at the start I could never quite apply myself to the method. I soon realised the problem: my mind goes at light speed, much faster than even my conscious mind could keep pace, so as soon as I tried to clear my mind and focus on my mantra the jinns of thought would begin their mad and merry dance around the now empty spaces in the ballroom of my brain. Things haven't really changed in the interim, and my natural laziness and need to procrastinate always found an excuse to stop. I'm really keen to try LD, but at this stage I'll probably wait too long, always finding excuses, until I get too distracted and again move on.
I've tried subliminal programs, drugs (you can't meditate when your head's like a balloon), even running and walking meditation. I get closest when my mind is focused on something outside, like playing mellow guitar (which to me is like putting one foot into heaven), or working at my craft, which is quite detailed and precise, but to slow down to nothing is next to impossible. Looking/focusing on nature can get close also, but not quite. Maybe we (Hunterkiss and I) are subliminally too focused on externals, and are afraid of letting go? I think that the sensation of letting go must be akin to terminally leaving the body, and that's what our subconscious won't allow? Like before you put your big toe into cold water . . . then suddenly once achieved, it all seemed so petty to begin with. I wish!
I agree, becoming more aware in Real life and becoming more aware in the dream go hand in hand. one helps the other.