Hello,
My first controlled lucid dream fizzled out fairly quickly. And I've noticed that if I'm not somehow engaging my conscious life with the topic of lucid dreaming, the spontaneous lucid dreams will be less frequent and, when I do realize I'm dreaming, I will soon forget.
Doing a daily meditation is helpful, as it strengthens consciousness in general. In some forms of Buddhism there is a practice known as mindfulness where the meditator is supposed to note only physical and mental sensations as they arise, and not get carried away in thought. The idea is that when you walk, simply think "walking, walking", or whatever. This is beneficial when it comes to lucid dreaming as it trains you to remain in the present moment. In my experience, if I go lucid and then drop out of it, then catch myself later, I always can trace back the period where I quit being lucid to that moment where I was thinking too much about the contents of the dream. I think the lucid state tends toward a natural fuzziness or fogginess when it comes to reasoning capacity, so the way to reinforce one's sense of awareness -- in addition to some of the suggestions linked to earlier -- and a general grounding in mindfulness can help with this. Although, it is more a long term solution and won't help you too much in the short term if you're just starting out. Or maybe it will!?
Another good thing to do is reality test even more. The dream self seems to follow the habits of the waking self very closely, and if the waking self is reality testing every hour, or whenever something "interesting" happens, the dream self will follow suit. Although I've had dreams where I reality tested and concluded it wasn't a dream, which is stupid but that's how it goes sometimes.
But, anyway, its very common. Also, the time you had the DILD may have played a factor in you losing lucidity quickly. It's been my experience that lucid dreams are most sometime prior to waking up if I'm in following my normal sleep pattern and not trying for a lucid dream per se (although this might be because this time is more memorable) or during a nap.
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