Thread: Stopping myself from waking up, my way

I fell out of favour with trying to become lucid over the last few months because it just wasn't working (I have since put it down to not getting enough sleep). Suddenly, over the last few weeks I've been quite lucky with attaining lucidity by chance. Something bizarre has been happening in my dreams and I've said to myself "This isn't normal, oo I must be dreaming!", and off I go.

As I was so excited, I found myself waking up in a paralysed state; remembering something I read, I used a technique of not moving when waking up, and just relaxing back to sleep. I managed to get back to sleep about 7 times (in the same night) and went straight back into a lucid dream. I thought this was amazing, and a lot of fun having several lucid dreams on the run.

What frustrated me was starting each new dream from the beginning, when I really wanted to finish off the dream before. I think I have found a solution to this, and it's quite simple.

When waking up, or feeling like I'm about to wake up (when the visual part of the dream starts to fade to grey), I just grab hold or something substantial and perform an action on it; whether it's uprooting a tree, pushing into a door or wall, or digging through dirt in the ground. Do this while the visualisation is fading, or when you wake up. If you do it after you've woken up, it's important that you don't move and concentrate on the last scene, imagining you're doing one of the actions above to something that was present in the scene, and hey presto!

This might already be in the tutorial so I apologise if it is, it's been a long time since I've read them!

That's an interesting way to keep from waking up. It keeps your mind focused during the dream, so if your dream is destabilizing for whatever reason, there's a chance the focusing on an aspect of the dream will keep that from fading, so you might be able to either recreate the lost environment, or when you wake you might be able to re-enter the dream, like a DEILD.

Originally Posted by Clyde Machine

That's an interesting way to keep from waking up. It keeps your mind focused during the dream, so if your dream is destabilizing for whatever reason, there's a chance the focusing on an aspect of the dream will keep that from fading, so you might be able to either recreate the lost environment, or when you wake you might be able to re-enter the dream, like a DEILD.

Oh dear, I should have re-read all the tutorials again before posting, but they're long and the acronyms are daunting

If I can add something to this post to make it not completely useless, a way I've started using to retain lucidity is to pick something up in my dream and throw it from hand to hand. I've tried rubbing my hands and touching the roof of my mouth with my tongue, but those didn't seem to work.

I first started this with a ball (as I guess that was logical) but I've found that picking up anything and throwing it between hands works. The last time I did it was with a piece of steak; however that lead me to waking up very hungry

Another good idea, I'll try this if I notice I'm losing lucidity. Most of the time my lucid dreams end with me losing lucidity and going into a regular dream without even knowing it.

Good ideas. Like you, I've found the most success with touching, moving, and interacting with the dream world. I need to get my dream body engaged in a physical way. Visualization alone won't cut it, for me.

Originally Posted by Clyde Machine

Another good idea, I'll try this if I notice I'm losing lucidity. Most of the time my lucid dreams end with me losing lucidity and going into a regular dream without even knowing it.

Yeah, that's exactly the reason I was looking to find something else to prevent me losing lucidity. I'll throw the object from hand to hand for a while, or if something is happening in my dream which requires the use of a hand, I'll hold it in my hand and rub it so I can feel the texture/features of whatever I'm touching.

Do you have any other techniques to stop yourself from "going with the flow" so to speak?

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

Good ideas. Like you, I've found the most success with touching, moving, and interacting with the dream world. I need to get my dream body engaged in a physical way. Visualization alone won't cut it, for me.

It's good to know I'm not alone Do you ever look really closely at objects when you're interacting with them? I find that when I concentrate on the object, the texture becomes incredibly detailed, kind of like a close-up of a textured thumbnail in an art package. 'Tis pretty cool!