hot streak?

I'm not exactly on a streak, but compared to my usual lucid dreaming numbers, I am. For the past two nights I've been having DILDS. They're remarkably clear and realistic, but i seem to have very little dream control, which is understandable since I've never really been able to practice dream control. I think part of the reason for this streak is that I've been doing rc's occasionally and thinking ALOT about lucid dreaming during the day. Also doing some of this method

http://www.dreamviews.com/f49/good-method-109211/

This is a method where I concentrate on what it feels like to be dreaming during the day, so in the dream I think about dreaming, and it dawns on me I'm dreaming and I become lucid.

I hope to keep this streak up and finally have the kind of lucids I've always wished to have. (high lucidity, dream control, flying, meditating, putting myself in a scene from a book or movie, basically just doing anything and everything.) I'm really excited :banana:


what are some tips to stabilize and extend the dream? I've already tried looking at my hands and rubbing them together.

Congratulations on the lucids! :)

I have no experience with the method you are using, but anything that makes you think about dreaming during your dreams should help.

As for stabilizing and extending dreams, there's a few threads on these forums.
From personal experience, I can tell you that what helps me most is to focus on all of my senses.
Touch, Sight, Hearing, Taste, Smell (maybe Presence, if you feel something like that in your dreams)

Anything that triggers your senses should help stabilize the dream.
This can be rubbing your hands, like you've tried, but also other things such as:
- eating something
- listening to ambient sounds / singing
- smell random objects, such as a flower
etc, basically anything you can think of.

Also make sure you don't get overly excited, it can destabilize dreams.

With my last lucid I used voice commands effectively. As soon as I was lucid, I shouted out "Increase Lucidity" Thrice, and the dream when from dark and lame to reasonably clear. I also use Voice commands effectively control the dream. I managed to find a friend in a dream using control once. I told myself that he was standing behind a tree that was in front of me. I walked around it, and sure enough, he was there.