Quote Originally Posted by Zebrah View Post
Are you stabilizing your dreams? That will make them much longer.

To stabilize simply engage your senses. Rub your hands, take a look at the detail of objects. Stuff like that. It calms you down and solidifies the dream.
This could definitely have been my problem, I just rushed to do things (fly, etc). So basically next time I should just stop, look at my hands, rub them together, look around at things, etc very slowly?

Quote Originally Posted by FancyRat View Post
I've had quite a few LDs over the years but would keep giving up and go for spells without trying because of the same problem. Only fairly recently did I start having long LDs. Because I kept waking up, I got very frustrated and bitter and started to doubt myself. For me, I know it was a mental barrier I had to overcome, knowing that I could do this. Once I had my first really long LD, it's like I proved to myself it was possible and it's been going much better since then.
What did you do differently?