Unique ways to Stabilize a dream/make it last longer

OK, taken from the tutorial, these are the basic, known ways to stabilize a dream, which makes them last longer.

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How to Stabilize a Dream


Stay calm
Hand-rubbing: try rubbing your hands together and experiencing the texture, friction, warmth, etc.
Spinning. There are many variations. Try and see what works best for you. (can be used to switch dream scenes). As you spin, imagine and feel that you are bumping into objects.
Focus on the Senses: what do you see? What do you hear, taste, smell, and feel? Can you see what's around you? Is there a breeze? How cold or warm is it? Etc. Focus on these details.
*Focus on textures, by looking at them and feeling them. This can be a texture in the environment, or on you. Look at the hair on your arm, or the fingerprints on your fingers.
Look down at your own body
Look down at the ground
Shout, "Clarity Now!"/"Increase Clarity"/analogous phrase
Speak out loud
Do [more] reality checks
Concentrate on the feeling of your dream body as you move. The breeze against you, the stretching of your muscles, the brush of your clothing against your skin, etc.
Do not think of your physical body. Don't TRY not to think about it. Just don't. If you do find yourself thinking about your body lying in bed, immediately distract yourself with the dream environment.
Begin to meditate within the dream
Lay down and attempt WILD within the dream (can be used to switch dream scenes)

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Does anyone have any unique ideas as to how to stabilize a dream/make it last longer? Have you done anything unique before? I had this idea...though I just have to remember to do it in a LD. It was to go to lucid court and sign a document stating my lucids would last longer...I thought of this two months ago. It's not that I haven't had many lucids since then, just that I never remember!

This would be a variation on using touch to stabalize but when i'm walking by a lot of people I scruff their hair as I go by

I actually licked the ground once haha, and I know what rocks/dirt taste like, and I think it might have helped.

Another common one is putting your tongue to the roof of your mouth.

err, do I even need to ask how you know that?

reach down and try to rub your feet. It worked a couple times for me

Stay calm and focused, is going to be the winner for me. Practicing meditation while awake helps.
Breath, and be aware of your breaths.

So in all, if you feel the dream fading stop what you are doing, take a deep breath, in the nose out the mouth, and look around you, be aware of what you can see and feel, don't try to change anything just relax.

This may help too, things NOT to do.
I found spinning dosent work for me at all just wakes me up.
Don't close your eyes.
Don't try to alter anything.
Don't get excited.

Heh, might as well share this here.
The other night I had a very long stint of lucidity, I was walking around a small town and the dream started to fade, I relaxed a bit took a few breaths and then decided to compress my focus, outside was too big, I went inside a small shop that looked interesting. It was a kind of new ageish, rocks and wicca kinda place. There was a lil old lady and another patron talking, the old lady said to have a look around.
I went into the back room and was looking about, the shop didnt have too much in it.
An idea struck me and I think I got a lil to excited about it because I could feel the dream destabilizing again. I went to the front room and asked the lady "Do you have anything that would help increase lucidity?" She looked at me puzzled for a moment rummaged in a shelf I had been looking at earlier and took out what looked like a carved pipe, "smoking through this will help you fall into a deeper sleep and may help you". I got a little frustrated because I didnt want the dream to end and I replied, "No no, I mean like right now" She looked even more confused and then seemed to get it but it was too late and I was waking up.

And whatever you do, do not taunt the happy fun ball.

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Originally Posted by Serinanth

And whatever you do, do not taunt the happy fun ball.

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EXPLAIN!!!

I can usually absorb electical currents from any outlet such as a wall plug, or in a couple of extreme cases drawn power from power lines.(I would not advise as such to just anyone. Past dabbling in meth and LSD I believe had prepared me for the rush.) This has kept me from waking and taken me farther into the dream. The hard part is controling the flow. And I tend to shape-shift during the channeling.

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Originally Posted by craig

I can usually absorb electical currents from any outlet such as a wall plug, or in a couple of extreme cases drawn power from power lines.(I would not advise as such to just anyone. Past dabbling in meth and LSD I believe had prepared me for the rush.) This has kept me from waking and taken me farther into the dream. The hard part is controling the flow. And I tend to shape-shift during the channeling.

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Or maybe experiences with meth and LSD created the memories for the rush in the dream.

One I recently encountered but have not yet had opportunity to try is doing some simple mathematics. I got the idea primarily from here (point #5), though I have noticed that even before going to bed I'll tend to stay more awake and even not notice any sense of tiredness if I work on some math problems. (I used to be a graduate student in math, so this came up fairly frequently. I had to make a rule that I had to stop doing any math after about 10pm so that I could get good sleep.)

A friend suggested to me just yesterday that one might try combining this with WILD induction in order to keep the mind awake as the body falls asleep. I started trying to do this last night but fell asleep before I started working on math problems, so I don't yet know whether it's likely to work. But it seems sensible!

Presumably, if this works at all it works because dreams appear in "right brain" mode and math tends to have a more "left brain" component. (Yes, I know the neurology is more complicated than that. I'm following the lead of Betty Edwards in continuing to use this short-hand in order to describe two different modes that we do know from scientific studies actually occur in the brain.) Presumably, anything else that engages in that kind of thinking should work: logic or language puzzles, working on how to phrase something (e.g. how you're going to describe what you're seeing in your dream journal after waking), organizing, attending to and examining fine details, etc.

Again, though, this is a recent thought, and I didn't have a lucid dream last night so I have no experience intentionally using math or other "left brain" thinking in order to boost lucidity.

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Originally Posted by TurtleLG

Or maybe experiences with meth and LSD created the memories for the rush in the dream.

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I've used this method many times and as for the memories creating the experience. The usage and the memories are quite different and alot more bizzare. Take the physical experience and amplify the dream recall of life. But none the less it is lucidity which conjures such a recall. I alone comand such an event using life as a palate of colors to paint with. With of course much destrutive force.

touch all 8 of your fingers to your thumbs on the corresponding hands.
it works pretty awesomely
and ive found that spinning works most excellent style

Thanks for shaing:The other night I had a very long stint of lucidity, I was walking around a small town and the dream started to fade, I relaxed a bit took a few breaths and then decided to compress my focus, outside was too big, I went inside a small shop that looked interesting. It was a kind of new ageish, rocks and wicca kinda place. There was a lil old lady and another patron talking, the old lady said to have a look around.
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