Having Lucid dreams but need help

**DreamBud** · 03-17-2011 03:47 AM

OK so last night i had a few lucid dreams they where pretty cool but i need help on something ill explain it after the dream:

OK I find myself on a boat its raining and for some reason i do a reality check and i find myself dream i did a nose pinch and still got air!!!! it was a funny feeling i turn around and I'm in my house now WTF!!! so i walk to my screen door that i can see through its a sunny day i wanna go have some funny with lucid i keep repeating i am dreaming in my head throughout this. So i try to open the door i notice that the door handle is not the one i usually have this one looks old and creepy i try to open but i cant open it when i try with all my strength to open it i squint my eyes closed and cant see and cant open them i try to imagine light or something but it doesn't work and i wake up .

Another lucid dream with same problem i find myself walking down stairs and all the sudden say I'm dream and i catch it i remember i read not to try super hard at first for something and work to strengthen my lucid so i touch the handle bars to fell texture to make dream vivid and i think how much these stairs look like inception and the paradox scene so as i am running around the stairs going down i think i wanna have a gun fight as my first goal so as i reach the bottom of the stair case theres a man in a black suit with a pistol and i look in my hand theres a pistol he shoots at me and the only why i can dodge is by going on my back so i do so as he shoots at me again the bullet goes slow motion i move my leg out of the bullets path and turn and shoot him in the heart fast with precision one shot get up see him in pain and he dropped his gun no blood anywhere though and i shoot him in the head i blink and wake up again.

OK so the problem is when i close my eyes in dream i wake up not Right away but i do after 5 -10 seconds of blackness and trying to imagine light or open my eyes i cant. so can anyone have a any-tips i am very open minded and will look in anything decently.

**AscendedSleeper** · 03-17-2011 04:12 AM

Generally spinning is a good plan of action when a dream is fading. Even if you are in complete blackness, it is likely that you will still be able to twirl your body around. This process was tested and documented most notably by Stephen Laberge and is included in his book, Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. The idea behind it is the same as the one behind rubbing your hands together, another effective technique. If you feel your body spinning, you wont experience the sensation of being stationary in your bed at the same time, and therefore will not wake up.

It is important to keep in mind that this often causes false awakenings or changes in the dream environment which could cause you to lose lucidity even if you don't wake up.

**Metalconch** · 03-18-2011 03:41 AM

An important method that I think many people don't know of is DEILD. once you sense you're losing lucidity dont move, if you stay still you can renter the dream lucid.

Read a tutorial

**bust113** · 03-18-2011 04:22 AM

At the beginning of the dream, but after you strengthen it by closely examining something, announce to the dream how you want things to work.

"Dream!
I want to have a completely vivid experience.
I want you to last long.
When I close my eyes, stay right where you are."

It works, I did something kind of like this in my only recent lucid dream. I tried to crush a can with my hand, didn't work, then I announced "Physics off", then it crushed abnormally flat. So next time a door won't open say "Unlock please".