Thread: Finally a breakthrough in LD, need help troubleshooting!

Last night I was able to remember to do a RC in my dream. I thought to myself, "Wait a minute am I dreaming right now?" I then looked at my hand to see that I have 6 fingers. The moment I realized I was dreaming, everything started to shake and I could feel my dream collapsing. I felt myself being sucked out of the dream back into reality where I eventually woke up. What can I do to prevent this from happening?

Hi,

Congrats on your first lucid dream
In fact don't worry if it took you a long time to start doing reality checks in dreams,
It takes some time for them to appear as they need to become mindful habit.
I guess since you started to do them in dreams they will be becoming more regular now

When you become lucid your disrupting a balance to which dreams were used (Aka no lucidity, dull thinking etc.)
This results in moving your consciousness closer to wakingness due to being slightly more conscious than usually in dream
And after some time you will eventually wake up because of that (Unless you prevent this from happening).

To prevent this stuff from happening there are fancy 'Dream Stabilization' techniques out there
I'il give you link to some nice threads with them at end of my post.
And now, i'il give you a few advices:
- Stay Calm
- Don't fear of waking up, be confident that you will be stay for long time in there
- Perform Stabilization Technique as soon as you become lucid aswell as when dream starts to collapse (If your dream collapses without any signs then you might try to strenghten stabilization at first becoming lucid or just do stabilization regulary while being in dream?)

Don't stress too much about losing lucidity, waking up or destabilizing dream.
Even if dream destabilizes and you wake up as long as you stay in the rem sleep you can continue it (Assuming you didn't become lucid at end of rem cycle and it ended on it's own?)
It's called DEILD Technique, when waking up from unnaturaly ended dream remain motionless, relaxed and keep your eyes closed.
You can visualize dream scene if you want or just lie still.
Soon you might be back into dream.

Some quite good threads for you :
Official DreamViews:
Stabilization - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Dream Control Tutorial - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
DEILD Tutorial - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Community Driven:
http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-cont...m-control.html
http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-cont...-tutorial.html
http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-cont...-hours-ld.html

Also if your going to go with learning to DEILD (Dream Chain) lucid dreams then you should read up this thread aswell:
http://www.dreamviews.com/wake-initi...explained.html
You might experience REM Atonia (mistaken for sleep paralysis and also called that) when using Dream Chaining, yet worry not from experience i can say that it is quite cool experience

And now fellow dreamer
Goodluck with your further lucid dreams

Thank you for the detailed post MisakaMikoto! I feel like as soon as I realized it was a dream, I don't have any time to try to stabilize it. Perhaps I just need more practice or increasing my awareness during waking life.

Heyy natureofmind!

Its a good thing that you remmembered to do a reality check. When you feel that you are waking up or the dream is fading try rubbing your hands or rubing your eyes or try spinning. If that doesnt work look around you and explore feel the things around you. Try smeling hte flowers or lifting up a rock. Ask yourself how does this smell or how does this feel? When your dream stops fading away continue with your lucid dream.

Good luck on your next lucid expirience!

I usually instantly hit the floor / dive down when I feel the destabilisation. I only have one or two seconds before I get thrown out of the dream, so I really need to act fast. Rubbing hands like a madman, trying to produce warmth and acutally feel it also works for me, but I only do this if I feel I have the time. As soon as I feel the crumbling sensation of a LD ending, I instantly jump to the floor and try to grasp as many details as possible from the material of the floor, one time I even licked a carpet. Everything that focuses you on your dream senses and brings you into contact with the fabric of the dream can help you stabilize and stay inside the dream world.

Amazing, so you may even sleep walk, just don't pee walk dude.