Hey everyone, this is my first post in a while, but thought I would share this experience with you all;

So a few nights ago I had a lucid dream. Don't know how, I just thought "Hey look at this, I'm dreaming", which is the only way I seem to get lucid. Anyway, I find myself in a street, which I think was by the house I grew up in through my childhood, and I realise I'm dreaming. Right, now I'm lucid, and here's where it gets frustrating for me, because EVERY time I'm lucid, I freak out a little. For whatever reason my initial thought is "So I could make myself wake up right now?" And that wakes me up.

This time, I try to maintain the dream. My thought process is "Right, stay calm, take a look around, and use as many 'dream senses' as you can". When I say 'dream senses' I mean what I can see, hear, smell etc and this usually makes the dream more vivid. I look around. For whatever reason I see a van and think "Right, I'm going to go touch this van, and I'm going to get so damn involved in this dream" so I walk up to this van and put my hands on the side of it. By this point the dream is damn vivid. But a soon as I stop focusing on using my 'dream senses' the dream disintegrates and I wake up.

It's really frustrating because whenever I get lucid I want to use the time I have to control my dream and try all the things I've wanted to do in dreams, but I always end up wasting all my time maintaining the dream state, and not getting a chance to actually DO anything. So does anyone have any advice or anything they'd like to share on this subject?

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