A though on staying in the dream

[Xanous]

Lately, I have had a very hard time staying asleep when I become lucid. When I fall asleep I tend to let my mind wander and I enjoy the show of watching the heavy HI when it comes on (almost immediatly). It is usually like little dream snippets strung together and make no sense. Just like if I was changing TV channels every few seconds. During this I forget myself and am totaly immersed in the imagry and sounds. From time to time I will realize that it is a dream. I am not totally asleep during this but it when I notice this the imagry fades and I become too alert and wakeful. Lastnight I realized that this is a lot like when I become lucid. The moment I say the word "I am dreaming" I wake before I can do anything. So, I have started to use the nightly HI as practice. When I begin to realize that the HI is a dream of sorts, I have been holding on to the imagry and actively focusing on the detail while not trying to change the scene or manipulate the images. It is an odd feeling like bouncing in and out of wakefulness. Sometimes I lose it and I wake up other times I just fall complety asleep. I am curious if anyone has done this or felt this way (maybe while attempting WILD) and would this be a good method for practice? I have had many lucid dreams since joining the site and many of them have lasted very long. This is just a temporary hurdle that I am trying to overcome. Any thoughts?

[Bloodcore]

Its quite hard to stay in a dream.. in a nightmare i managed to get lucid and take some deep breaths and count to 3 (inhale..1 exhale 2 and such) and then concentrated to somewhere i wanted the dream to take place (teleport) it has helped me twice, though i cant seem to remember almost any of my dreams, just 2 of 6 and i cant get lucid in more than 1 of 6.. so far the guides hasnt really helped me that much.

[HockeyIsLife]

Lately, I have had a very hard time staying asleep when I become lucid. When I fall asleep I tend to let my mind wander and I enjoy the show of watching the heavy HI when it comes on (almost immediatly). It is usually like little dream snippets strung together and make no sense. Just like if I was changing TV channels every few seconds. During this I forget myself and am totaly immersed in the imagry and sounds. From time to time I will realize that it is a dream. I am not totally asleep during this but it when I notice this the imagry fades and I become too alert and wakeful. Lastnight I realized that this is a lot like when I become lucid. The moment I say the word "I am dreaming" I wake before I can do anything. So, I have started to use the nightly HI as practice. When I begin to realize that the HI is a dream of sorts, I have been holding on to the imagry and actively focusing on the detail while not trying to change the scene or manipulate the images. It is an odd feeling like bouncing in and out of wakefulness. Sometimes I lose it and I wake up other times I just fall complety asleep. I am curious if anyone has done this or felt this way (maybe while attempting WILD) and would this be a good method for practice? I have had many lucid dreams since joining the site and many of them have lasted very long. This is just a temporary hurdle that I am trying to overcome. Any thoughts? Xanous, sounds a lot like what has been happening to me lately...I feel like I'm in a dream, but I think that it's just really vivid HI...when I realize this "its like woah, what gives" i become aware, and zone out...then, i go right into SP.. That bouncing feeling? To me, that's one way to put it...It's kind of different from that being sucked in to a dream feeling, but it's also like that twirling/dropping feeling... Sound similar?

[shaftmonkey]

hey xanous by snippets of dreams, do you mean you can actually see the dreams (like a hallucination?) or like you see them as a scenario in your mind (like you can imagine every detail but you're not actually seeing it)?