How to Wake Yourself Up

I am really scared about this whole thing, because the last thing that i want to do is live a whole life, the length of 80 years or so in a dream, even though it probably wouldnt occupy that much time in real life. I want to know some tequniques on how waking yourself up from LDing, like i mean 100% garenteed ways. The last time i LD, and which was my first was after i read up on it a lot and then i got and gained control amazingly. I think i progressed faster then most people. I went to egypt and many different places. I even was running 10km a second, it was amazing. But i stopped in my dream and i wanted to get out, and quick, i was jumping off of building and cliffs and not saving myself but my brain wouldnt let me die in the dream reality. Luckily my dog licked me and woke me up. But i know how not to LD so i dont need to worry about having them without we wanting them but, i know that the dream i had was fabulous and i love doing them, i can easily spearate reality from dream world and i hope that with a little closure and finishing my reasearch that i can LD when i want and that i can have the capacity to see what i believe was the making of the universe in action. Please respond to this and any replies not wished to post on the site could be sent to [email protected]

Thanks everyone

I find that the real problem is getting them to last more than a couple minutes. I'm sure you could wake yourself up very easily if you just told yourself to wake up. Even if you couldn't, you'd just have to wait a little while for the dream to fade, and if for some strange reason that didn't work, just try to feel an intense emotion (you'd probably be freaked out from being stuck in the dream anyways) and that should do the trick. I don't really think you could experience 80 years in a dream. Stephen LaBerge has shown through experiments with lucid dreamers that dream time is roughly equal to real time, so to do that you would have to sleep for about 80 years. Your brain just wouldn't have enough time to invent 80 years worth of sensory input.

I think there's little to worry about. Like Revero said, dreamtime is about equal to real time. I've heard some people saying they had a dream that lasted for about a week, but there always seem to be hops in time.
Anyway, when I was younger and was more often aware of a dream and I got scared, I used to close my eyes with alot of force. As far as I remember, it never failed for me.

The closest thing I've ever had to a lucid dream happened about a year ago. I don't remember the dream at all, but I remember thinking "wow! I'm in a dream. but can I wake up?" I woke up. I immediately fell beck to sleep though. I thought "WHOA! Can I do that again?" and I woke up again.

Close your eyes, slow your breathing, and wait til you can feel like you have voluntary muscle movement in one of your limbs (you still may be in RIM and feel the whole paralysis thing[just be calm and wait..it's really shorter than you think]), and then just wake up. Of course you'll keep shifting landscapes until you get close just keep your eyes closed and be patient.

Just keep trying to "get up".......It's difficult at first, but with practice it will work.....By "get up" I mean rise your body as if to get up out of bed.......Works for me........

I just open my real eyes. When Im lucid, i cnanot feel my body, but i can always feel my real eyes. And when i want to wake up, i open my eyes fomr the dream. Its liek opeing your eyes twice, its very odd, but it sure does work.

"how to wake yourself up"



easy, CLOSE YOUR EYES

its that simple, just close your eyes, and 2 things may happen:

-you wake up
-false awakening :| <-happens to me alot


and when you have a false awakening, you will just spend the rest of your sleeping period in another dream...

and btw. you won't spend 80 years in a dream, i maybe have spent like... 20 seconds in an LD... and then i lost it :| , i got rammed by a car that i didn't saw...

Here's a waking technique that always works for me:

I close my eyes and then open them very, very slowly. When they're completely open, I'm awake and looking at my bedroom!
You really don't have to worry about an 80 year dream, though. Something will always wake you up.