I think I pretty much know what to do when it comes to inducing lucid dreams, having at least some control in them, and maintaining them. However, my really big goal in lucid dreaming is to reach mystical states and/i.e. hardcore tripping and keep them going. I am talking about having very emotional visions of life's meaning, being a god, experiencing nirvana, seeing astounding beauty in the universe, feeling total bliss while floating with angels, and other things like that. I know how to bring those experiences about. I have had some really profound mystical experiences and moments of extreme ecstasy in my lucids. The problem is that the experiences only last about two or three seconds and then I wake up or shift to something very different. I know this sounds just like what I and other people say early on about maintaining a lucid state at all, so I am hopeful that I can master mystical experiences in my lucid dreams.

What I want to learn about in this thread is first hand accounts of accomplishing what I am talking about and suggestions for doing it. Has anybody gotten to that point?