Problem with waking up

So a few days ago, I went though my dream journal and put a tag on all of my dream journal entries that involved me becoming lucid and immediately waking up. (Some people know this as a Layer 1 LD, I use my own terminology and call these Minor events) I used the tag "Minor event" and it was the biggest tag in the cloud.

There is an obvious problem.

Over the course of my LDing career, I've had close to 40 good lucid dreams, and probably twice as many of these events. (So obviously I have SOME experience.) I generally don't count them as full lucid dreams.

And the biggest problem is becoming lucid immediately wakes me up. Sometimes, the dream is destabilizing even before I become lucid. Now once I get lucid, I don't seem to have trouble stabilizing and holding on, at least for a few minutes. But this is assuming I am afforded 10-20 seconds to stabilize. In these cases, I am not. Advice please.

I officially checked my DJ: I have had 8 minor events, and 5 lucid dreams. Some numbers for you.

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Originally Posted by JadeGreen

Sometimes, the dream is destabilizing even before I become lucid.

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The dream might be collapsing because you're at the end of your REM period and are naturally waking up. When you start waking up your shoddy dream logic is returning to a more...logical logic which allows you to realize what's happening. But it's too late to do much at that point other than to try and return to the dream by performing a DEILD.

I think the more time we spend in a dream the more likely we are to realize it's a dream. So you're more likely to become lucid nearer the end of a REM period than the beginning.