Quote Originally Posted by sivason View Post
I think at first almost all lucid dreams happen in the lightest times of sleep. It is easy to understand why. The idea we all share of drifting into sleep can be applied to starting to wake. You just start to reach a mixed state where you get a vague amount of waking awareness but you Are also still more asleep than anything. In attempting to lucid dream you have created an intention to watch for this very thing.

At first you have to go through learning how to deal with this light sleep kind of lucidity. Eventually, perhaps 100 lucid dreams later, your brain has become wired for lucid dreaming. Then you will be able to reach a lucid state in true REM sleep, which is where vivid adventures happen. Alot later, say 1000 lucid dreams and you can become lucid in all the stages of sleep.
I can attest to this, I don't usually have a LD until its close for me to wake up for the day. Recently my LDs have been spontaneous, I can't say stabilizing isn't a problem for me as I'm still experimenting. When I wake up I honestly don't what causes that, the intensity is always there and I've balanced out the excitement.