Trouble floating and staying asleep >< haaalp!

**nuckchorris999** · 08-31-2011 04:54 AM

Hi, I rarely get that amazing gift of lucid dreaming, but I had one last night and it made me really question some things... This is my first lucid dream in a really long time. I have several extremely vivid dreams every night, but VERY rarely any lucid dreams. Anyway... This is at the end of a really long dream. I was that one kid from iCarly (lmao don't ask why! I have no idea. hate that show lol) after getting my heart broken and really frustrated (by Carly because we're "just friends") I walk into this room with a bunch of my family and I get this huge party started. I had total control of everyone with my hands and I had psychic powers and felt like Matilda. This is about the point when I realize "hey, holy f*** I'm in control of my dream!" So I sit back and start floating. The song "Jump in The Line" is playing in the background (same song at the end of Beetlejuice where she's floating and dancing). I only float for a few seconds and I get about a foot above an average kitchen table when I can literally feel myself starting to come out of my dream and my vision starts to get distorted until finally I wake up. It's the weirdest feeling ever, it's like you feel yourself losing your dream, like someone's tugging it away from you and you're fighting for it! As I was floating I kept thinking in my mind "relax, just keep floating. You're not gonna wake up, just relax". This is because every time I float/fly in my dreams I usually wake up soon after and don't get to enjoy it for long.

So a few questions...
1. Why do I have trouble floating/flying?
2. Why is it that when I start to have control over my dreams I wake up soon after? (like too soon to enjoy it

)
3. Another thing... this might be weird but, when I get a sexual dream I wake up right before I'm about to orgasm. Wtf is that??? Rude much? Any explanation?
4. Also, I have extremely vivid dreams every night. A lot of them, but I never lucid dream. Am I close to it, or any reason why my dreams are always so vivid? Am I just getting epic good sleep?

Thanks for your help

I'm really into this stuff. Should've joined this forum a lot sooner.

**Evolventity** · 08-31-2011 08:46 AM

Welcome to DreamViews.

You're not alone, this is a very common issue a lot of beginners have.
1. When you first realize that you're dreaming, you must stabilize and anchor yourself in the lucid dream. This allows you to stay in your LD. Read the Dream Stabilization and Clarity Tutorial for further information. Also check out the Flying Tutorial. Further helpful resources can be found at The Beginners Guide to Lucid Dreaming and the WIKI.
2. Also because of not stabilizing your LD. ^
3. Getting too excited? ^
4. You're just awesome like that. ;D Could be your diet or sleeping schedule.
Good luck!

**yuppie11975** · 08-31-2011 09:10 AM

Stabalization!
Also, they're probably just vivid because you're like that.

**fOrceez** · 08-31-2011 09:38 AM

The trick to dream control is simply confidence in yourself, confidence that it is possible and expectation. As Evolventity said, at the beginning of lucid dreams, you should stabalise your 5 senses into the dream before you try anything

**nuckchorris999** · 09-07-2011 05:20 PM

YES! Very good information, thank you everyone. I did a lot of reading and I found the stabilization and clarity tutorial especially helpful. After only 6 days of trying I induced my first LD last night. The only thing different that I did was eat apple jacks for breakfast and drink apple juice before bed.

So I'm in my grandma's backyard (out of state) and somehow five seconds into my dream I remember to do a reality check. I looked at the inside of my hands and my hands were sort of blurry and bones were deformed, so I commanded "dream stabilization!" The distortion got worse. "Dream stabilization!!" My hands were then even more deformed and the blurryness increased greatly, so knowing I was about to wake up I yelled like Dumbledore, "STABILIZE NOW!!!" And it worked ^^ everything got clear and vivid. I then tried to summon my best friend by shooting a beam out of my hand but he only appeared for like a split second. I then thought about a girl that I used to like and turned around and she appeared smiling, wearing a checkered skirt. I walked up to her and said "I could make out with you... or I could try flying again." So she came a centimeter from my lips when I backed away and said "I think I'll practice flying!" I started floating and then flew away down the alley, taking care not to fly too high or too fast. Throughout all of this, especially the flying, I had to keep checking my hands and they would quickly go from blur to clear when I'd look at them. After a short while of flying, it quickly went from day to night. That's when I knew I was going to wake up because I couldn't see my hands due to it being too dark (I should've tried a time of day command) then sometime after that I woke up in the middle of flying.

The LD was short, like a few minutes, but definitely the longest LD I've ever had, and the most controlled as well ^^ Going to experiment some more with the apple juice and apple jacks...