As The Dream Goes On...

[NightLife]

For me it's very difficult to stay in my dream for a long time... As the dream goes on, do you have the same chance of losing the dream, as you would in the beginning??? Or does your mind get used to the idea of a lucid dream and makes it more difficult to lose the lucid dream??? Oh and for the experienced LDers... Out of 10 nights, if you tried every night to have a lucid dream, how many do you think you would have???

[Flavour of Night]

Maintaining a lucid dream is something that improves with experience. Often, when lucid, we do things that cause us to lose the clarity of the dream (it fades out) or our control over it (events start happening that we don't want to have happen). I developed my own abilities by taking advantage of every lucid dream to "work on something". Early on, I would just try to experience and do things that should be possible in the waking world. The more of these things I became comfortable with doing while lucid, the less just being lucid seemed strange. Once comfortable with experiencing lucidity, I started to work on the impossible. Learning to fly.. to move objects with my mind.. to pass through solid objects (I still can have trouble with that one!). The single piece of advice I like to give the most is that anything we do, we do with more confidence as our experience grows. This applies to our waking lives, and it applies to our lucid dreams as well. Out of ten nights wanting to LD, without any particular induction technique (which I don't put much effort into), I might LD half the nights, but some of those nights will include multiple LD's. For the folks around here skilled in WILD techniques, they might hit 10 out of 10.

[Clairity]

Flavour of Night, gave you some excellent advice! As I only WILD when I can sleep in the next morning, I normally have at least one lucid dream per weekend.

[Moonbeam]

What FON said--experience. (I still have trouble with the solid objects too; it took quite a while to master glass. ) Honestly, I'd be happy if I got one out of ten consistently. I go thru times with more or less than that.

[Gonzales]

actually i've had the same problem of losing my lucid dream Im pretty new to lucid dreaming i've only had about 5 lucid dreams over the last 3 months but they been really short ussually i can only stay lucid for a couple of seconds minutes at most its kinda irritating but im hoping as i get more experience i'll be able to remain lucid for longer

[Flavour of Night]

Hey Gonzales! Welcome! Just like anything, when we first start doing something new, we don't really know much about it. The more we do it, the better we get. Sometimes we even get to be an 'expert' at something, but even if we never get that far, we can still find enjoyment in those things we learn about. There are tutorials here for any level of lucid dreaming experience, and of course the forums are always here for your questions!