Thread: Losing lucidity

Since dreams are very responsive to our expectations, this might have been a coincidence the first time it happened, but it implanted the expectation that is now playing itself out like a bad habit. Any time you're worried that you might lose lucidity or that the dream might end, you increase the likelihood of such things happening.

Perhaps the best thing to do in the short term is to break the pattern that has become problematic: use a different stabilization technique, or else try to remember not to look at your hands. Instead of rubbing your hands you might try touching the surfaces around you: I often get very realistic textures by rubbing my hands on the carpet or over the wall, and I think it is comparable to rubbing the hands together in terms of improving stability.