Thread: Staying in a Lucid dream?

a good way is to eccentuate? the feeling of touch. Rub your hands together or against the ground. or fall backwards or concentrate on a detail within the dream or spin really fast. try whatever might help you.

When yall say you spin to stay in the lucid dream longer, do yall mean physically spin or something else?

Originally posted by SmartAznTiger
When yall say you spin to stay in the lucid dream longer, do yall mean physically spin or something else?

Spin in your dream. The only side effect of spinning is that it's likely to change the dream scene totally. Whether it's good or bad, you decide. Personally I like the "rubbing hands"-thing very much, and it works really well for me.

This happens to me very often... i get very excited about getting the thing i can't stay calm enoughnot to awake. I've done the dream spinning, but all it did was to make a false awakening with me spinning under the bed covers like an idiot I never tried the rubbing hands thing, but it seems more effective.

yes you can rub anything its just the engagement of the sense of touch that is important. Try rubbing your ears as this engages sense of hearing also...spinning is more exclusively for changing dreams. looking at the ground is also good for relucidating your dreamscene.

I'm familiar with the feeling... for me, it was like the whole world melts before my eyes, and I either wake up or have a false awakening. One thing to consider is that lucid dreaming is an entirely different state of consciousness, and it can be overwhelming the first couple of times. It just takes experience.

What I do is, I let the dream take some control, then try to regain control again. There are times that doing this I have gone into a complete dream. I noticed this helps when trying to meditate and astral project or have an OOBE. It seems like the first stage into getting towards a dream like state, I have to allow my thoughts to be random as I would when I sleep. This is how we all fall asleep. It would work the same way in staying asleep in a lucid dream. Just don't lose too much control or you will lose the lucid dream.

Also, when you see complete darkness, it is not always indicative of waking. There are times I have had this happen and have a false awakening.

this might be way off, but i'm stuck.
last night, i had a lucid dream, very short, but still lucid, in which i was aware of everything, more so than i am in waking life, i am observant in life, so that i can recognise lucidity when i need to, if you get me.
what i need to know is this: the dream faded, and i lost lucidity, totally. to the point i ended up in a different dream, but still thinking about the last one.
how do you recognise a 'fading' dream? mine just seemed to switch...
it didn't do what i might expect, and fade out, or go dark, and it didn't go like someone else described, as 'dissolving', like the chalk pictures in mary poppins...