so lately the last couple of lucid dreams ive had have ended up with me getting distracted and loosing lucidity and going back into regular dream mode. and its been happening pretty fast, like one minute after i become lucid. like last night while i was dreaming i was at my old school and plugged my nose and could breath so i knew i was dreaming and immediately went to open a door so i could summon my subconscious and have a conversation with him but when i opened the door there was a class going on and the teacher told me to sit down cause i was late, this immediately caught me off guard and i lost lucidity.

Ive realized that when ive been becoming lucid ive been getting a little ahead of myself and immediately trying to use my powers or something. what i need to do is stop and focus for a little while and just observe the dream world and tell myself over and over that im dreaming.

so i was wondering what other techniques i could use to increase lucidity and awareness?