Quote Originally Posted by BrandonBoss View Post
40 of my first 50 LDs:
I am lucid! run! find a goal! Run! try to fly! Run! wake up two minutes later tops. Slowing down was really hard at first.... Especially if there was a... person... of other gender around. FA's especially, since I wake up next to my hot wife

Slowing down will make your goals get to you better and make it easier to stabilize.
This is a great point, BrandonBoss. (Great advice here from Sivason as well.)

This is something that I still struggle with because lucid dreams are so exciting and our brains are in a state where we have very little natural impulse control. (Which is also what makes the wife-related false awakenings harder to resist! )

But in the last several weeks I've been trying to slow my tempo down, really make myself a part of the scene and just enjoy the LD for what it is before I go flying off into the distance shouting "yippee!!" like an 11-year-old. I've found that if I remember to do it, slowing down and really observing makes the entire experience so much more vivid and gives me a lot better chance at ultimately controlling where things go and steering the experience toward whatever goals I have in mind.

Thanks for the reminder of this, both of you.