Whenever I became lucid, the dream collapse

[nightdagger]

Hi Everyone It is great to find this forum. Have anyone experience dream collapse? Let me describe it. It happens to me many times. Whenever I realized, it is a dream. Everything instantly turned into black, and I can hardly move. Eventually, I re-wake up in my dream losing lucidity (FA). It is as if my brain does not want my consciousness exists in dream. It tricks me to believe that I wake up in reality after my dream collapses. Sometimes I can hold for a few seconds, then the dream collapses... Any insight? Thanks

[spellbee2]

Hey nightdagger, and welcome to the forum! It's fairly common for your first few lucids to only last a short amount of time. It's not that your subconscious doesn't want you to be lucid, it's just that it's such a new experience that it doesn't really know how to handle it... As you have more lucids, you'll get more accustomed to the feeling of getting lucid, so you can get better at controlling your excitement and staying in the lucid longer. For now though, I would highly recommend checking out our tutorial on Dream Stability here: Dream Stabilization and Clarity Tutorial - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

[lucidbunnie]

I can't express enough how common this is for lucid dreaming. Sometimes it leads to a false awakening or just waking up. I'd add to what spellbee mentions above and say that it happens even AFTER you had quite a few lucids not just when you are starting out. I speak from personal experience. I have had quite a bit of lucids and I still experience these collapses. It can be because of poor quality of sleep, health issues, or sleep disorders. Sure, maybe all you need is more experience to adapt to lucid state, keeping emotions in check, and better stabilization, however, I still have these collapses rather frequently. If it is of any comfort, even with my anxiety and sleep issues I have had fairly longer lucid experiences especially with chaining lucid dreams with DEILD. I have probably had almost half an hour long lucid journeys with DEILDs with some dreamlets lasting seconds and others minutes. Anyway, I think it's good that you end up in a false awakening most of the time. If you make it a habit to do reality checks when waking you can easily go back to being lucid.

[nightdagger]

Thanks for replying! I totally agree since I had roughly 20 LD already. Except for the first few LDs, most of LDs collapses right away! Luckily, I end up with FA so if I practice the skill, I should be able to turn them around.

[nightdagger]

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