Quote Originally Posted by Meskhetyw View Post
If all else fails just try sitting up as soon as you become aware of waking. If timed correctly, you will force a dream and be in your room, lucid. I use it as a backstop; that is, if I only become aware at the last possible second as I wake up, I immediately attempt to rise into a new dream. It works most of the time. If you come out of a lucid dream, then restarting it by visuals is easy, however if you only just become aware or are having trouble initiating then this may force the issue. It is no different than a WILD in which you roll or float out, except that all you need to do is exit, which takes out some of the variables. There is one condition: you will need decent dream control in order to avoid the boredom that comes with always beginning in your room.
This is interesting I'll try to remember this. My thing though is that I wake up *really* quickly. I only recall having one FA that I caught for a lucid. I have had luck not moving and just lightly thinking of the last dream and drifting back into it: one I made it back in non-lucidly, and another time was a proper DEILD (to a new dream). I think that if I tried sitting up quickly I'd actually physically sit up in bed. Worth a shot, though!