Thread: Staying in a dream

So I seem to mostly have lucid dreams when I sleep for the night then wake up for an hour or two then go back and take a nap... just as i fall asleep I just fall straight into lucid dreaming. I assume that this is the point where I'm most lightly asleep but its also the easiest place for me to go straight into lucids. Today I had a really good one for the first time in a few weeks

But the problem is is that because I'm in a kind've light stage of sleep sometimes I'll be in the middle of a lucid and trying to do something then all of a sudden it will all dissapear and I'll just be awake and staring at the inside of my eyelids... today I was in a lucid dream and I "opened my eyes" and thought I was awake back at my house but then I realized oh wait I'm actually in my dorm room and I was able to just go outside "my house" and proceed to have more lucid dream time. but then after a while it happened again and I was just awake and staring at my eyelids... and I tried to tell myself I'm still dreaming and just picture a dream scene... but I couldn't and I wound up just falling into non-lucid sleep. Sometimes in lucids its hard for me to stay in the dream for a very long time... how can you go back into lucidity when this happens? When the dream scene all of a sudden vanishes? Thanks