Blocked????

I have tried out most of the LD techniques at various intervals... I have gotten to the point where i have recalled 1 dream per night, a great feat considering naturally i almost never remember my dreams.

heres the problem- I have NEVER been able to consciously LD. Every single time i realize I am dreaming, I wake up. EVERY time. This is SOOOO FRUSTRATING and usually i end up giving the LD techniques a long break in by frustration and having to start over from scratch.

It takes really blatant things to make me become lucid... falling off a cliff and not dying, etc. It makes me wake up.

usually though, I dont get any lucidity at all. Am I blocked? Has anyone ever felt like this? How do I unblock myself?

Its really frustrating just passively waiting to become lucid. :mad:

Well sometimes when you realize you have the ability to do it you get exicted and that causes you to wake up, sorta like having a bad dream. what you need to do is right when you realize your dreaming. Think that you wont wake up, but you will continue. It seems like you get to that point and your mind only knows that it has to wake up, tell it that you will proceed to dream. It's tough, but once you do it it's like riding a bike you dont forget how.

Thanks for the advice... I'll try to impress that in my mind today and do it tonight, but that sounds really hard. How do you manage to do it?

See, usually by the time I realize I'm dreaming its too late, I wake up, because only spectacular things make me lucid.

If I practice I have no trouble recalling my dreams... my problem is becoming lucid. Is there any way to increase my chances of becoming lucid?

Well it cam very easy to me. It all started with a bad dream and I jsut realized it wasnt real and it was a dream. So it happened that way.

well i had a little success last night, for what its worth... I had control over the dream but i still didnt realize i was dreaming... the dream was still controlling me