Thread: Most powerful stabilizing techniques ?

Try falling backwards onto the ground, or rubbing your hands together.

Also, take deep breaths and remain calm so you don't wake up almost immediately.

Rubbing my hands together works well for me, try it out! Also, try to hold on to any objects near you, or even your body parts like look at your hands and arms and study them.

But another way is to not think about stabilizing at all! If you dont think about needing to stabilize, your dream wont find a reason to destabilize in the first place. It's all about convincing yourself. But it may take a while for this to sink in though, and it's always safer to learn stabilization techniques just in case.

When you get lucid, try not to do stuff right away. Focus on your surroundings first and observe the dream before you decide to do anything wild. Good luck!

I've found licking the ground is the best stabilization method for me. I tried it out after hearing about it on the get lucid podcast. It might sound gross at first, but remember, you are dreaming. It makes my dreams much more clear than eny other stabilization method i've used (so far atleast). It's worth a try
side note: I've found that carpets taste like strawberry, and grass tastes like the colour green. It's kinda cool .

Originally Posted by Rauwz

I've found licking the ground is the best stabilization method for me. I tried it out after hearing about it on the get lucid podcast. It might sound gross at first, but remember, you are dreaming. It makes my dreams much more clear than eny other stabilization method i've used (so far atleast). It's worth a try
side note: I've found that carpets taste like strawberry, and grass tastes like the colour green. It's kinda cool .

I am so doing this.

Originally Posted by Rauwz

I've found licking the ground is the best stabilization method for me. I tried it out after hearing about it on the get lucid podcast. It might sound gross at first, but remember, you are dreaming. It makes my dreams much more clear than eny other stabilization method i've used (so far atleast). It's worth a try
side note: I've found that carpets taste like strawberry, and grass tastes like the colour green. It's kinda cool .

Lucky bastard! Lol. I licked the ground once and it tasted coarse and it tasted just like soil. But then of course maybe that's what I was expecting so that's what happened. Hahahaha i might give it another go some time

Just stand still for a moment and take everything in. Rub your hands, pay attention to the details around you, and focus on your senses. This is the best way to stabilize a dream. To just stop for a moment and focus on your senses. Spinning around is also another way people stabilize a dream. Hope you get another lucid soon!

Originally Posted by Rauwz

I've found licking the ground is the best stabilization method for me. I tried it out after hearing about it on the get lucid podcast. It might sound gross at first, but remember, you are dreaming. It makes my dreams much more clear than eny other stabilization method i've used (so far atleast). It's worth a try
side note: I've found that carpets taste like strawberry, and grass tastes like the colour green. It's kinda cool .

I tried this today, the ground was very dusty and like sand. I enjoyed it but somehow it didn't help me to stabilize that much. The sensation was quite real though.

Will remember the other methods here and try them out tomorrow or so.

Try to find a leaf, sit down and totaly focus on the leaf. Feel every detail and smell it. It works great for me.

Originally Posted by Rauwz

I've found licking the ground is the best stabilization method for me. I tried it out after hearing about it on the get lucid podcast. It might sound gross at first, but remember, you are dreaming. It makes my dreams much more clear than eny other stabilization method i've used (so far atleast). It's worth a try
side note: I've found that carpets taste like strawberry, and grass tastes like the colour green. It's kinda cool .

How can I not do this? lol!

Lately I have been increasing a lot my DILDS/MILDs and I have the same problem as you OP. As soon as I get lucid, I have a false awakening, or a real one way too fast. I'm rarely able to enjoy my dreams. What actually kinda worked for me is what paigeyemps said: not thinking about stabilizing it at all.

Awareness. Absolute self-awareness. Practise meditation in waking life and then do it in a lucid dream.

May I add in listening to binaural beats?

(I have included many links here for resources I'd like to refer you to; however, i'm still a newbie, I just registered so to reply to this thread - so I can't exactly put in links yet. Just remove the spaces in the links. I've changed the font color to red so it'd be easier for everyone to see.. I think it's not much help, but I just wanted to make everyone's lives easier)

I remember that when I was only a beginner in lucid dreaming, I had trouble stabilizing dreams myself. Therefore, I had trouble controlling my dreams too and so on (normally, the moment I realize I was in a dream and try to control it - bam, just get the feeling that the dream is fading , then I wake up) - I suppose most of us experienced that.

However, things changed when I listened to binaural beats. I mean, things really changed in just one night of listening to them.

Here is the particular binaural beat I listened to: ww w.yo utube . com/w atch?v=66tq9xji0xA

It's like this:
before I started listening to binaural beats, when attempting LD, it's like I'm falling.. I keep falling, falling from this very high place then I look down, and I realize the deeper I fall, the more I realize I'm in a dream. But, I look down, and there's nothing I can hold on to or to catch me... so when I start realizing I'm in a dream, there's nothing to support me, therefore I end up waking up the next moment.

But when I listened to that that very evening, it's like a solid platform just elevated from the ground - I had lesser trouble in stabilizing a dream, my dreams have become more vivid, etc. and now I only have to exert effort in remaining calm. Really, I can't stress it enough here how much listening to binaural beats have helped me.

In fact, just last night, went to bed around 12 midnight, plugged in my earphones, listened to a recently downloaded beat - woke up around 2 am but it felt like a really long, long sleep (I could recall several dreams, some by sequence too - my dreams were very much vivid (though I can not comment on whether or not it's from the one I listened to because my dreams have always been vivid - I just have trouble with dream recall in the past few nights) like 5 hours of sleep instead of 2 hours.

I listened to this: htt p: / /f ree-binaural-beats. com/delta-2-5hz/

I suggest everyone give brainwave entertainment (ex: binaural beats.. note: there are a lot of kinds of brainwave entertainment and I suggest you check them out!) a shot too. I've been lurking around for quite some time now, and I've noticed that brainwave entertainment (such as binaural beats) has been given little emphasis, whereas it's actually a very powerful tool in lucid dreaming, meditation, relaxation, focusing, etc.

I recommend this article at SleepWarriors for an easy way to understand what brainwave entertainment is all about:
http: / /www . sleepwarrior.com/brain-waves-brainwave-entrainment

on frequencies: htt p : // w w w. l unarsight . com/freq. htm

If you're looking for beats to download, I would recommend this site:
Fr ee-bin au ral-beats . com

Note: I don't think this sounds so much like an actual technique like everyone else's but I do hope it helps. It has helped me a lot in accelerating my progress, so I hope it does the same for you and everybody else.

Cheers,
Skykes

What's worked best for me so far is rubbing my hands over walls, feeling the textures. Also eating broken glass.

I tried these both in a lucid because I was hearing music and the lyrics told me to feel the walls and then to eat the glass (I had just broken out the glass in my bedroom window, which in the dream was too small to get out through). I ran my hands over the inside of the walls and then reached out and felt the outside - it was brick just like it was supposed to be. When I ate the glass it felt like fruit rollups and didn't have much if any taste to it.

To remember to stabilize, add it to your mantra. Or just switch to a mantra like "I become lucid and feel textures to stabilize".

Since discovering this I've added feeling textures to my RCs - I first look around and see if things are the way they should be and if I remember why they're there, then I ask "Am I dreaming?" while feeling textures near me, including my own clothes and anything I can easily reach. Only then do I do the nosepinch and fingerpalm.

I'm with Rauwz, ever since I heard about licking the ground in the Dreamviews podcast, that's been my go-to stabilization method. And it works great! Dirt tastes like chocolate, and leaves are like ice cream to me. I love myself some dream leaves

Thanks, some really good advice. I too am finding soon as i get lucid and become aware i find i wake up. I want to stay lucid and move around and explore consciously. More tips please to try out.

DreamerAnj, when the dream is fading, imagine something slamming you on the ground. Like something reached up and pulled you down. That works for me as a last attempt to get back into a fading dream. If you keep having problems about waking up, tell yourself that you will stay in the dream when you become lucid, in a mantra like for MILD. If it still doesn't work, you could stay totally still when you wake up, and you should go back into a dream quickly. More explanation of that process on DEILD tutorials

Thanks for the tip, i'll give it a try. Last night i tried just looking at my hands to keep me in, but as i did i faded back and woke up. i'll try the DEILD technique you mentioned

But i need to know something important. I can now be guaranteed a LD most nights. In my waking life now i feel more blissful since i became a LDreamer. Can Lucid Dreaming cause me psychological damage?, i mean is there any long term damage to my mind?

Originally Posted by DreamerAnj

Thanks for the tip, i'll give it a try. Last night i tried just looking at my hands to keep me in, but as i did i faded back and woke up. i'll try the DEILD technique you mentioned

But i need to know something important. I can now be guaranteed a LD most nights. In my waking life now i feel more blissful since i became a LDreamer. Can Lucid Dreaming cause me psychological damage?, i mean is there any long term damage to my mind?

Unless you already have a mental illness, and are prone to "psychological damage", there is no danger.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't it all basically boil down to having a deep rooted knowledge and awareness that your dreaming? Can't it be counter productive to be too hung up on 'teckniques'? Sure, if you truly believe a tecknique will do the trick it will work. But in reality it's still your expectation and the fact that you know it will work that actually makes it work.
My point is:
If you wanna have absolute control over your dreams (and isn't that what we all aspire to achieve?). Wouldn't it be better to focus on the awareness that your dreaming and the awareness that you in fact is the one in control.
Rather than relying on 'teckniques'?

Now keep in mind that I have absolutely no experience with lucid dreaming. I'm purely writing this based on what I've been able to read and my general understanding of how and why LD'ing works.

What Bansheet says is very true it has very much to do with awareness, however, awareness of what? What is awareness, is it knowledge? Ok then but what is knowledge?
There are no simple answers to those question, although we do know why we want to have the awareness and knowledge while in the dream.

We want it so we can experience, and then we have to ask ourselves how we experience things in our daily life and we'll get a more clear and simple answer.

We use our physical body and our five senses to recieve and interpret information that then provides us with an experience which we can use to gain knowledge.

So all the great techniques described in this thread all comes down to one thing, and this is creating a vessle or a dream body that you can use as a reference point for your experience, or for those who rather would like to use a cooler word, an avatar!

Let's "pretend" that the dream world is like a big matrix created by a computer, and that when we dream unaware we are just experiencing things like a movie, things just happen on it's own. But when we get more aware we suddenly enter a sort of free look mode or a third person mode, and in this state it is really hard to control our actions, simply because we are not used to that perspective. And what if you are in the complete free look mode and in the hazy dream awareness aren't really aware or expect arms or legs, how are you then supposed to navigate or expect yourself to pick up information, or for that matter experience anything at all (if you are not used to it)?

It is possible of course, but by experience I "know" that it is easier to experience a clear, stable and vivid dream if you ground yourself in some kind of dream body or a vessle (because you can be whatever you want.)

You create this body by thought and intention just like everything else in the dream world, but to make this easier it's a good idea to have an action planned to do the second you get lucid, such as licking the ground or rubbing your hands. However don't forget the rest of your body, look at your body clap your hands, anything to become aware of/ or create a body that you can use to experience your dream. (Pain can also help alot or doing something that you are familiar of doing in the waking world.)

I usually run and do backflips or sideflips, because then I use my entire body plus it's really fun.

Sweet dreams!