Thread: Length of LD's

You should try stabilizing in the dream once you become lucid. You can do this by rubbing your hands together and paying attention to the friction and the heat as you do it, or you can draw your attention to one of your other senses; for example, listening to the sounds around you or noticing the smells you can smell near you. Also, when you get in the car, expect the dream to stay stable and have confidence that what you expect to happen, will happen.

ShockWave.

Originally Posted by ShockWave

You should try stabilizing in the dream once you become lucid.

Visit this page: Prolonging Lucid Dreams. It's a report compiled by lucid dream researcher Stephen Laberge. He includes various scientific evidence behind these techniques as well as how to perform them.

Originally Posted by ThePieMan

Visit this page: Prolonging Lucid Dreams. It's a report compiled by lucid dream researcher Stephen Laberge. He includes various scientific evidence behind these techniques as well as how to perform them.

There's some good stuff on this page, but I wouldn't suggest spinning "rapidly" as he described. Spinning too fast often only works to further destabilize the dream, because you can't focus on any of your surroundings well enough. Slow dream spinning, combined with rubbing one's hands together, works the best in my opinion.

Sappy, when you got into the car, was it a convertible? One time I entered a regular car in a lucid, the dream started to destabilize because I could no longer see anything through the car's windows - they were foggy, and the interior of the car was somewhat unstable, if that makes sense. Touching the interior of the car and really visualizing what it will look like, many of the details, the texture of the stitching and fabric of the seats... In other words, treating the new location (in a sense) like a brand new lucid dream can really help. If you were in a convertible, you should still have an awareness of what's around you. Don't focus all your attention onto the steering wheel or other parts of the car; look ahead of you at the dream scene and don't lose focus on what's around you.

Take your time and stabilize yourself with in the dream, there is no rush, Try to remember how u feel when your not lucid because when your not lucid the dream can go on forever. example: "Oh Im still awake (dreaming) okay no big deal the next car i see i'll just hop in it and take it for a spin" namaste.