Lucid Dreams Deteriorating

This is a pretty simple scenario but I fear resovling it may be quite difficult so advice would really be appreciated.

I haven't had a lucid dream where I've had the time to exercise control in about a month.

In one of them I realised I was lucid and and immediately experienced a falling sensation, I had a few seconds to try and ground myself and it wasn't enough - I woke up.

The one I had recently resulted in me almost going crazy and running around side to side with the dream environment disappearing within seconds - I woke up.

The one I had about an hour ago resulted in me thinking "I am dreaming" and then immediately seeing the back of my waking life eyelids. (Unless I am dreaming right now, in which case I hate you all for tricking me!)

Is there any direct action I can take to prevent this from happening, or will I have to wait it out?

Your help would be hugely appreciated.

Two: Do whilst in a LD
1: Say command I'am dreaming the world is vivid while rubbing your hands together
2: five senses . look smell hear touch taste

The problem is I'm not getting the opportunity to do that, as soon as I get that first realisation that I'm dreaming, I fall out of the dream.

I'll try and be on the ball more quickly next time and ground myself in the dream, but I just feel like my subconscious isn't giving me the opportunity.

OncCe you wake up don't move at all and try to go back to sleep and you can have a DEILD.

I have that problem on occasion. It started happening about where you are, around the 10th lucid dream or so. I am just lately starting to get over that hump.

For one thing, I would be suspicious any time you wake up directly out of a lucid dream. For me, it's usually a false awakening. If you see the back of your eyelids (which happens to me a lot) just lay still and wait for the dream to come back.

The thing that has worked best for me is the "Dream Possesion" technique that I learned from one of my own DC's. I have a thread about that, but I have never heard of anyone else doing it. That is to "possess" the body of a DC, preferrably one that you identify with. Summon the dream body if you need to. Then try to see the dream from his/her eyes, and experience it through his/her body. For me, even if my own dream body is losing the dream, the inhabiting of a more stable dream body puts me fully into the dream.

But as I have never heard of anyone else doing this, maybe it is just a personal thing. There are other ways that people suggest for holding on to the dream, such as trying to activate all of your own senses. I often don't have time for that. Someone else has suggested trying to hold on to a person in the dream. That might work too. You will probably need to do a bit of experimenting.