Thread: Fuzzy lucid dreams

An idea as to why this is happening:

Your body is programmed to fall asleep and wake up. However, you don't want to wake up do to subconscious fear.

This inter-fears with the program that is set-up to protect your mind.

Therefore, your subconscious tries to ignore the fear of waking up by not letting you realize your dreaming because your subconsciousness knows that if you realize you are dreaming you will want to stay asleep which is against your programing.

To stop this effect I suggest saying to yourself " I am not afraid to not wake -up. I just want to wake up (set time ex amount of hours) after realizing that I'm dreaming". This must be repeated several times until your subconscious realizes that you are not afraid and plan to wake up but just at a later time.

I think that:

The only thing that might effect the program to sleep and wake-up is if the person gets in a serious accident.Then the subconscious over rides the program because it is too afraid to wake up.

You've both got excellent points. I'm definitely falling back into the dream because I'm reacting against the belief that I will wake up immediately - I don't know how to find that balance between waking and sleeping, I suppose. I don't actually believe properly that it exists yet. In the dream, I've started throwing myself to the floor and having the feeling of closing my eyes as soon as I become lucid, in a direct attempt to not be lucid I suppose - but only because I think I'm going to wake straight up.

I'll try RCing and just trying to calm the hell down and chill out I suppose. Everything tends to feel crazy and frenetic, which I suppose is due to my tendency to rush through everything because I believe waking is imminent.

In a stable LD, what does wake you?