you should figure out what kind of stabilization technique works for you. if you just become lucid and go off and do whatever comes to mind, your dreaming attention is going to waver and run out. but if you're really mindful of what you're doing and aware of this and your surroundings moment by moment, you will have a longer LD.
i'm training myself to do the same thing at the beginning of every LD, which gives me confidence by reflexively stabilizing. a few times during the day i imagine that i've become lucid and i act this out.
what i do is first, look for my hands and look at their details. then i look at an object, look back at my hands (using them as a reference point), look at another object, sustaining the sight of the first two, and then do this with a third object. then i gaze at them and then my general surroundings. next i rub my hands together and become aware of my body and breath, and finally i touch the roof of my mouth with my tongue (i learned from reading a book by carlos castaneda that there is a center of awareness in the roof of your mouth, and touching the roof of your mouth with your tongue stimulates your dreaming attention).
if you feel like you're coming out of the dream, you could just come back to your hands.
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