Thread: Question about maintaining lucidity

Great advice from Threecat!

I want to add that recently I have noticed doing a short affirmation during the dream that I am convinced that I am soundly asleep at this point and know I am not going to wake up. I either do this little affirmation which comes very naturally or alternatively not think about dream end at all and go about my tasks and the dreams last much longer.

Originally Posted by NyxCC

Great advice from Threecat!

I want to add that recently I have noticed doing a short affirmation during the dream that I am convinced that I am soundly asleep at this point and know I am not going to wake up. I either do this little affirmation which comes very naturally or alternatively not think about dream end at all and go about my tasks and the dreams last much longer.

Coool idea, I'm going to try that!

Great advice, ThreeCat, thanks!

Originally Posted by ThreeCat

My best advice would be to not worry about waking up. I have had decently long lucid dreams (longest was approximately 2 hours, with others ranging between 20, 30, or 45 minutes), but all of them contained a single element: it never occurred to me that I might wake up--or at least not until the end of the dream. However, merely thinking about waking up and leaving the dream world often carries us that way.

So don't think about it! Relax and enjoy the moment. Hope that helps.

This really makes sense. My earliest lucid dreams were actually the longest ones I’ve had, lasting up to 15 minutes (not quite an hour yet ). I think it was because I was mainly focused on dream goals rather than “I better not wake up”. Also in reality I’ve often thought “how come I’m not wondering about waking up now? If only I could do this in a LD!”. Now all I’ve got to do is induce an LD to try this out, hehe.

Originally Posted by NyxCC

I want to add that recently I have noticed doing a short affirmation during the dream that I am convinced that I am soundly asleep at this point and know I am not going to wake up. I either do this little affirmation which comes very naturally or alternatively not think about dream end at all and go about my tasks and the dreams last much longer.

great idea Nyx; I’ll make sure to try this as well.