Thread: My Lucid dreams degrade and fall apart almost instantly

Originally Posted by squirrelly

What I do when I get lucid to keep it from falling apart is give myself an immediate task i have to do. For example, going through the nearest door, eating something, or trying to fly.

This is a new approach that I've been trying to learn to do as well. To immediately start to think of my dream goals when I become lucid and start to go after them. In the past I'd be doing the usually advised things of spinning around or focusing on details to try to stabilize the dream but I've had less luck with them lately because they don't take my mind off the problem. I'm optimistic that the dream goals will provide enough interest to occupy me and prolong the dream.

The only thing is I haven't quite put it into practise yet but I know it's only a matter of time, as the other techniques I rehearsed did arrive in my dreams after a bit of time.

The other idea I have is just to keep getting better at getting lucid more often. I figure that if I start to do it regularly enough, sooner or later I'll be lucid for longer, perhaps by getting lucid earlier in my dream cycle or just my mind getting really used to it and maybe even my subconscious starting to accept that it's just something I'm going to do, so in order to have enough dreams, I need to have longer lucid dreams. That's the idea, anyway.