Thread: Is a waking life memory/experience required before having the same experience within a lucid dream?

I ask this because it seems when I try creating a 'would be' new experience within a dream, it starts to become unstable, and I lose all layers of lucidity rapidly until I eventually awaken.

Why is this? I've had about 12 lucid dreams over the past few years and I have the hardest time maintaining total stability and clarity within the dream. When the dream is that of something I've experienced before the dream is pretty stable, but whenever I try something new it just all goes downhill from there.