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Yes, this thing with my eyes wanting to shift perspectives has happened to me a few times. It's maybe every 7th or 8th dream, and I wish that I had a good explanation for what causes it. It also doesn't usually collapse the dream scene for me and kind of goes away after a second.
Do you follow the urge or keep focused at one spot?

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Can you describe this urge to look away? Is it sudden and violent?
It's sudden. Not so much violent as automatic. It seems to happen very quickly.

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Do you feel that your negative feelings about this urge to look around are perhaps what collapses the dream scene?
Interesting point. I don't think with this specific urge I have too many negative feelings, but I might have built up an expectation within myself that it's hard to keep a lucid dream going, so that manifests. Think that could be it? I've had about 30 lucids, with most lasting 5-60 seconds, a couple in the 5-10 minute range and one about 15 minutes. It seems like I should be better at this by now, but even that thought is probably unhelpful. I should do more hypnosis on myself.

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One thing I'd definitely advise is to go with the flow in any way that you can during a dream.
I had two lucid dreams this morning, and took your advice.

In the first, I am crawling underneath a fence, chasing a bad guy with a big barreled sniper rifle. My shirt snags on the bottom of the fence, I pull through and it rips. I'm running and running, see a house and a roof. I say to myself, If I can leap onto the roof then I'm in a dream. I easily fly through the air and land on the roof. I keep going with the flow, chasing him. I remind myself I'm in a dream in order to stay lucid. I ask out loud What is it I wanted to do in a lucid dream? I can't remember. I wake up soon after. As I'm waking I try to spin, I end up spinning slightly in bed and waking abruptly.

The second was more helpful. I had stabbed this evil fat man with only thumbs for hands. I stabbed him with a pen in the chest and he walked away down a hallway. As I'm walking after him, I see him begin to sink through the floor as he's walking, kind of like he's able to walk through walls. I ask him, Who do you represent? I recognize I'm dreaming. I ask the dream, What does he represent? I hear a woman behind me begin to giggle. I turn around and the image blurs. For a second I see a nurse in blue scrubs, then I wake. I'm not sure exactly what he represented but I feel better, somehow.

Earlier in the night I did a dream incubation session about something I was still bitter over. I don't know if this dream was the one that fixed it, but when I think of the situation now, I'm not bitter anymore. Pretty cool.

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Cool workbook Neuralswarm, I like your listed goals.
Thanks! Lucid dreaming is pretty powerful. I'm amazed how little attention I gave to dreams before starting my practice. They can teach so much.

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Your from the ATL? What university and high school did you go to?
I'm from the Stone Mountain area. I dropped out of high school on my 16th birthday and have been studying on my own ever since.