Remembering to be more lucid

Hey all,

So lately I've been getting good enough at initiating lucid dreams that my LD bottleneck has become my tendency to immediately start doing stupid things when I become lucid. As in, rather than stabilizing the dream, calming myself down, and calmly exploring my surroundings (or whatever it is I planned to do), I will immediately start flying into space or engaging in a lightning duel. I don't know if most people have this problem, but if I don't stabilize my dream and calm down, not only will it be a rather bad LD as a whole in terms of realism, but I usually won't be thinking straight and will often slip back into non-lucidity. So I guess the big question is, how do you remember to stabilize?

The big thing is experience and planning on calming down every time because you will always want to be calm at least at the beginning of the lucid. I have finally got it so that the idea of lucid = Calm down and think about what you are doing. I think that it is something that everyone should adapt early on. :) Good luck on your lucid journey.

Also just having more dream awareness will make it easier to remember to stabilize.