Thread: Remaining mindful once becoming lucid

Hi all,

Hoping to get some ideas on this from longtime practitioners. I have noticed that I have a tendency to "forget" what is important to my conscious mind during a lucid dream. During the day, I have very serious meditative goals that I would like to accomplish within the dream state, but feel that once I become lucid, all of this washes out. I either try to fly, have sex, summon things, or whatever else one might initially think to do once lucid. Either that, or my goals will resurface near the end of the dream when it is too late. Any thoughts on gaining/maintaining mindfulness within the dream?

I am, for the most part, aware of myself--aware that I am dreaming, aware that my body is sleeping in WL, aware that certain things in WL could wake me up--like my wife rousing me, for instance. I don't slip into non-lucidity, but there are times when I react to dream phenomenon as though they were real (like getting angry at a DC family member, for instance, when I should realize they are merely a construct), which I feel is a kind of non-lucidity. I practice shamatha on a daily basis. If there are any "tricks" or practices for cultivating stability, I would be very interested to hear them. Thank you so much.

EDIT: Want to make perfectly clear, though, that I mean stability of mental presence, and not stability of dream environment. I realize this could have been placed in General Lucid forum, but since the dream mind seems more whimsical than the waking mind, I view this as a kind of dream control.