How Would You Wake Up?

[RetepNamenots]

Hey, second post! I was just wondering how you guys wake up from a LD. As I mentioned in my first post, I would have to count up to ten and then suddenly be awake. Or do you just think to yourself that you want to be awake? Because I felt as if I couldn't, even if I really wanted to! Maybe it was just my mind or something..?

[Keeper]

my first LD, when I was very young, I used to wake myself up just by snaping my fingures.

[RetepNamenots]

Haha, if I ever get LD'ed enough to be able to fully control my dream and I want to leave, I'll try that! It sounds so much easier than waiting all that time. Plus, my method had to be done slowly, if I tried it quickly it wouldn't work and I'd just have to start again.

[LucidDreamGod]

When I was a kid I had ld's so much and didn't know how to use them to my advantage yet, so I would be scared in a dream and I'd usualy end up getting even more scared becouse the dream reflected my emotions, anyway I always used to have to try and commit suicide sometimes the only definate thing that worked was jumping off a tall building even though I'd feel pain from it, yes real pain in a dream, try and run into something really fast or make something jump out at you, anything quick like that will nost surly wake you up.

[King and God]

Attempt moving your real body, not the one you have in your dream. Once when I had an LD, my shoulder was itchy, which annoyed me alot. So I attempted to move my hand outside the dream, but I could only move my fingers very little. It caused me to wake up, and finally I was able to scratch myself.

[Theresa]

I usually just close my eyes really tightly, and then open them very slowly. When they are fully open, I am awake and looking at my bedroom. Simple, and it works every time for me.

[bias]

Why do you want to wake up from a LD? But anyways, my method is kinda hard to explain, but it's like I just tighten all the muscles in my body all at once, and focus on opening my eyes. It takes less than a second and then I wake up... I've been using that method for at least 10 years, and it never failed.

[RetepNamenots]

Why do you want to wake up from a LD?[/b] Lol, I never really thought why I would now (seeing that I've not had a LD for years and years), but when I was much younger I got scared from them

[Jr_Worley]

Even thow wanting to wake up from a lucid is such a waste. the way iv woke up from dreams i could control is commit suicide lol

[Vex Kitten]

A few times in LD's I simply wanted to wake up and did. Once, I had a long LD that I didn't want to forget so I told myself, "You better remember this when you wake up." And a moment later I woke up with complete recall of that dream. Another time that springs to mind is when I was being stalked by this glowing ball of light in a LD. It kept shining down on me and I didn't feel like being the center of attention. I couldn't will it away and no matter where I hid it always found me. It dawned on me there was a surefire way to escape it... WAKE UP. And I woke up. So yeah, there are instances when one might WANT to wake from a LD. Never thought to take the suicide way out, perhaps I'll try that one sometime.

[Pyrofan1]

I have a habit of waking myself up out of LDs when i know the dream is ending and there's nothing i can do about and i do this by getting excited.

[Vex Kitten]

If I had the choice, I'd perfer to wake myself out of a dream. Especially when I know time is running short. Sometimes I can feel when I'm running out of time in a dream. In those situations I'd prefer to tell myself to remember the LD when I wake, then awaken before I'm jarred awake by the damned alarm clock.

[dsr]

I've never tried it, but LaBerge says to lie down in the LD and say "Go to sleep!"

[RetepNamenots]

No idea why I would want to wake up now though - I just need to LD to wake up from!

[zxc]

I haven't had a LD yet, but I heard having sex wakes you up from one, and that sound like the best way to do it.

[jollyal]

whenever i am in a lucid dream, laying down and going to sleep in my dream wakes me up every time.

[Jordan]

whenever i am in a lucid dream, laying down and going to sleep in my dream wakes me up every time. [/b] This also works for me sometimes. I think it has to do with aligning your "dream body" with the state of your waking body, perhaps for much the same reason that spinning (which would be creating dissonance between the waking and dreamed state) stabalizes a dream. However, this technique will sometimes lead me into a false awakening.

[ALovelyWay2Burn]

In LD's you can speak verbal commands in order to increase lucidity or manifest objects and such. You'll find that mental commands work as well, if the dream is vivid enough. I've always found that just willing myself to wake up does the trick, maybe shutting my eyes tight, and upon opening the be awake.

[zoo york is cool]

i pretty much just somehow make it end some way. i dont know, it is complicated to explain. i might even pinch myself

[Identity X]

In my more recent LDs, I don't need any help, nor have any control over, waking up (grrr). But in the ones I used to get as a kid, which kinda freaked me out, I used to hide behind things, close my eyes, and when I'd release them I hoped I'd be awake. Rarely worked though. If only my LDs nowadays were so unwilling to end. On the subject of how long I'd like a LD to be without waking up; I'd say... a week? On the premise that I'd be able to get in again. But, according to LaBerge, dreams are entirely real time, so I guess there's an upper limit on the length of a single dream extending to an hour and a half or something, or perhaps even less.