DEILD is by far the best technique.

[kevenc]

I had 5 lucid dream last tonight. One of them I was perfectly in control I did what yo uguys told me to make them last, rubbing hands, touching the surronding, but for a mystic reason I ended the dream by blinking my eyes, don't know why... It was a reflex. Another question is, one of them I was in my bed and I could barely move, my body was so heavy and it wasn't synchronized with my mind, I stood in my bed the whole dream because it was so hard to move adequatly t but I was lucid. Did anyone experienced something similar ?

[mikeac]

Congrats, I'd have to agree with you as well. Even though I've only experienced DEILDs a couple times relative to DILDs, they usually bring on chains of vivid dreams in my experience. As for why you woke up, blinking or shutting your eyes might do that, it's just something that's hard to avoid. That wasn't a dream, you were in your bed but you were in between sleep and wakefulness in a state of sleep paralysis (google it). This tends to happen when you DEILD or WILD, and it just means that your mind is awake but your body isn't. You just have to ride it out into another dream or 'wake up' by trying to get yourself to move. Don't force yourself to do either though.

[kevenc]

@mikeac "That wasn't a dream, you were in your bed but you were in between sleep and wakefulness in a state of sleep paralysis (google it). This tends to happen when you DEILD or WILD, and it just means that your mind is awake but your body isn't. You just have to ride it out into another dream or 'wake up' by trying to get yourself to move. Don't force yourself to do either though." I tend to accept that, but I am pretty sure I managed to do a RC, and there was a big fire just near the bed, maybe hallucination then ?

[mikeac]

Sleep paralysis can be accompanied by hypnagogic visions that feel and look like dreams. You may have performed an RC, but you never 'left' your real body into another dream.

[LucidMoon]

Never works well for me, if i've just left a dream i can be pretty sure that's my dreaming done. I'm a deep sleeper, this probably only works for light sleepers who wake up lots.

[Scionox]

Congrats on lucid dreams! I did not had any success with this method though, so can't suggest anything in particular. Though i can suggest to try not to blink in the dream(as weird as it sounds, it's possible). As for the second question i agree with mikeac, that most likely have been sleep paralysis, you should have used that to go back lucid!