Hi folks.

Since my last entry in my dream journal here on dream views, I have atained lucidity quite a lot, and more and more often as time goes on. In fact The past few days it has been at least once a night, sometimes 2 or 3 times.

"Hooray!" I should be exclaiming, "I am a proper Lucid Dreamer!"

Alas no. Since that last entry in my dream journal, every single time I have had a lucid dream, I have woken up almost as soon as I attain lucidity. Generally, whenever I realize that I'm dreaming, I get this huge adrenaline rush and my mind feels like its expanding to the point of shattering my cranium (which really is nowhere near as unpleasant as it sounds, it actually feels warm and comforting), my muscles all go tense and feel very strange, then a sort of white light engulfs me and I wake up. All this happens in the space of a few seconds, and I have tried shouting and saying a few things to stop me waking up, but to no avail. I have tried concentrating really hard on staying focused, but its incredibly hard to think when your mind feels like mine does when I become lucid.

A side effect of this strange automatic waking is that when I do wake up, my whole body feels incredible for a minute or two afterwards. My muscles have a kind of warm glowing feeling as if they'd just done a workout, and my head feels very warm and fuzzy, yet still quite clear. I can easily fall straight back to sleep in this state, and equally easily get up and do productive things straight away without the usual 15 minutes of bleary-eyed drowsiness I have in the mornings.

Basically, while this situation isn't all bad, because its certainly still nice when it happens, I miss having real lucid dreams. Even though if this happens at a reasonable waking up time in the mornings it makes getting up a snap, I'd still prefer to be able to have real lucid dreams.

Has anyone else ever been in a similar situation as this? Anyone have any advice for me? I haven't really been keeping up with my dream journal recently either, because I always seem to remember at least a few dreams per night very vividly anyway, should I start this back up again?

Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions!