Thread: Believing you will not have a lucid dream, results in one? Possibly new technique?

You know this can also work within a lucid dream... Actually It can become quite powerful in keeping you there. Take the lucid dream I had on day 57 of my practice. The lucid dream faded away and I found myself back in the dreamworld since I had a false awakening. After continued false awakenings my lucid kick out timer got reset and extended the length of the lucid dream each time. I was terrified that I was in a coma and that I couldn't wake up. By believing this I made it reality which made me become trapped in a series of false awakenings.

That was my longest lucid dream ever and it's all thanks to believing that I couldn't awaken and that attempted to would result in a false awakening. If you wanna read the stuck in a lucid dream experience I had then check it out here:
(please note I refer to the lucid dreaming state as the "phase state")
trapped in a lucid dream and unable to escape for an hour

Originally Posted by 12padams

You know this can also work within a lucid dream... Actually It can become quite powerful in keeping you there. Take the lucid dream I had on day 57 of my practice. The lucid dream faded away and I found myself back in the dreamworld since I had a false awakening. After continued false awakenings my lucid kick out timer got reset and extended the length of the lucid dream each time. I was terrified that I was in a coma and that I couldn't wake up. By believing this I made it reality which made me become trapped in a series of false awakenings.

That was my longest lucid dream ever and it's all thanks to believing that I couldn't awaken and that attempted to would result in a false awakening. If you wanna read the stuck in a lucid dream experience I had then check it out here:
(please note I refer to the lucid dreaming state as the "phase state")
trapped in a lucid dream and unable to escape for an hour

I just read your story and I must say I am amazed and fascinated by your story, as it seems you were stuck in the dream for ages. I've barely had lucid dreams longer than 15 seconds, so coming across something like this would be like a dream come true! (See what I did there? )

If I understand you right, the way to keep your lucid dream alive longer, would be by believing that you will not wake up? If so, I will make sure that I will remember this when I have my next lucid dream.

If I understand you right, the way to keep your lucid dream alive longer, would be by believing that you will not wake up? If so, I will make sure that I will remember this when I have my next lucid dream.

This was a one off for me and I have never actually tried doing this again but maybe I should in future. If you go around thinking that you can't have a lucid dream for long and that you need to stabilize every 20 seconds then you will realize that the lucid dream will always be unstable. If you actually don't believe you can awaken however and actually want to wake up this seemed to induce false awakenings. The good thing about a false awakening is that it's like you have reset your exit timer and get to stay in the lucid dream longer since the beginning of a false awakening is always stable.

I can't actually say this works 100% but it's certainly a possibility. Think of it like reverse physiology for your brain. In a lucid dream you wanna stay but your brain forces you out of the state. In my lucid dream I was scared that I was dieing and wanted to wake so my brain locked me into the lucid dream. If it wasn't for that bird that woke up I probably would have been stuck for a much longer period of time. Hopefully more research can be done on this theory in the future.