So last night I had my first lucid dream. I had come to an empty room, and quickly realised that I had no idea where I was or how I had gotten there in the first place. I immediately became extremely excited, but I managed to calm myself, and shortly thereafter began to both spin and knock on my surroundings, as I had heard that helps to solidify my surroundings. This did well; the dream was slightly hazy before I had begun said methods, but it began to clear up. However, I found that with spinning, the more I did so, the less of a grip I had on my lucidity. After a while, I was back into the sway of the dream.

Therefore, I have a question: Once one is lucid, the dream can certainly be stabilised, but what is that to one's lucidity? Should I practice alternate methods to protect my consciousness, or was my experience unique or a chance occurrence? Thank you, and if this topic has already been discussed, please link me to said discussion and I will close this thread.