Thread: Frustrating awakenings.How to stop them?

I used to have a lot of trouble staying asleep when I realized I was dreaming, and on occasion still do. I don't know if it would help at all, but for me when I realize I'm dreaming and feel myself starting to wake up I imagine a weird slow wave or frequency around me as I'm waking up, slow it down, and reverse it back into dreaming. Essentially telling myself over and over, "I'm dreaming and this is where I left off," and even though sometimes the dream has actually disappeared at this point (I see black) I keep telling myself I only closed my eyes and about to open them again in the dream and then DO and keep dreaming from there.

I suppose over all what I'm trying to say is I recognize the feeling of sleeping and dreaming and its difference from being awake... and have been fortunate enough to be able to see HOW it is I start to wake up and reverse it long enough to run around in my dream a long time. Also, what one of the other posters said about your dreams lasting only 1-2 minutes being something you expect is probably true. You'll probably need to change your personal idea of 'time' and how long you expect to be asleep. I expect my dreams to last for 'days' when I go to sleep and in dreamtime they do pretty often.

There are some people who want to get LD and you are fed up from LD’s.

I'm not fed up , it's just frustrating that i can't stay any longer than 1-2 minutes.What's the use of LD's if the only thing you do during it is look at your hands and touch random objects for a minute ?I know , i used to be so happy even if i go lucid , but you know , after having the same dream for 200 times ,it just stops being special.That's why i'm trying to solve this problem

Originally Posted by zilvis89

I'm not fed up , it's just frustrating that i can't stay any longer than 1-2 minutes.What's the use of LD's if the only thing you do during it is look at your hands and touch random objects for a minute ?I know , i used to be so happy even if i go lucid , but you know , after having the same dream for 200 times ,it just stops being special.That's why i'm trying to solve this problem

Just keep practicing. If you've got getting into the LD part down, you've done the hard part already. It comes with time and practice. I wish you luck-- there's lots of awesome stuff to do. I've been going to sleep lately thinking about a specific 'something' I want to do at night lately like fly or visit a certain place. Its helps a lot with how much time you have in the dream itself to know where you want to go or what you want to do ahead of time.