Thread: I can't stay lucid for more than 2 seconds!

Alright. I just recently joined this sight, but before that I had many lucids. I have been on a bit of a dryspell(until yesterday ) but I used to rub my hands when I became lucid. Also, it was almost second nature for me to shout "clear or focus" to make sure the dream did not fade. I think the reason it worked so well is because I truly believed that this is my lucid and I was going to stay in it(that and I tried not to get to crazy or overexcited). If you feel your dream fading try to clear it again with the ways already said or by spinning and focusing on clearing. When you go lucid and clear it using this stuff^ you should look for your dream guide; mine has told me so much. You can also look at the tutorials on this site. Anyway, goodluck MagicSeahore and cybereality. Hope you guys do not go on a dryspell like I did(even though its fixed ).

Cool! I was just reading a book by Stephen Laberge (Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming) and I just read like an hour ago about how to prevent premature awakenings. Basically he talked about activating your 5 senses to stay into a dream. This way your brain will be more focused on what is happening in the dream, then on what your [I]actually[I] doing (lying in bed).

When you enter a lucid dream, you basically want to "stabilize" everything. What I would do first is quickly rub my hands, and visualize or think about how warm it feels when you rub your hands in real life. Then yell "clarity or focus" this makes the visuals of the dream much more, crisp and life like. Focus on any sounds you may be hearing, like the birds chirping, or the wind blowing. There may be a smell maybe rain, or fresh flowers, pollution even! taste isn't really that big of a sense but you may be chewing some gum, or you might be thirsty.

Basically the more your focus on those things the more effort your brain is putting into your dream ( thus keeping it stable) then on focusing on your physical body, ( which would just be lying in bed).

Hopefully I helped!

Oh and as mentioned above, dream spinning is also a great idea. For spinning to work though ( I tried it once and it didn't help too much), you actually have to visualize/remember how it feels to be spinning in real life. Feel the wind rushing around you, and the dizziness you may experience because one time I just spun around just for the sake of spinning in hopes of stabilizing the dream and nothing changed.