Originally Posted by
Sageous
I had a thought, Dolphin:
At the risk of reopening another technique debate, have you considered ignoring* the dream, and focusing on keeping your mind stable? Call it a need for fuel rather than machinery, per your earlier analogy. Instead of demanding that the dream remain stable (Snoop did make a good point about this), why not assert your own stability?
Since you will likely be witnessing a dream of some sort throughout your REM period, why not let them come and go as they will, vivid or not, long or not, and just work on getting used to your own presence in them? In other words, get comfortable in the skin of your own mind. Watch, lucidly, the dreams as they arrive, fade, pass, and arrive again, all the time conscious of your presence in the dream and the fact that all these universes briefly passing you are of your own creation.