Quote Originally Posted by sallybrarian View Post
-Affirmation before bed "I will have a lucid dream and it will always be sooner rather than later"
If you do have one sooner, remember to wake yourself up or something.

Sooner isn't always better, but watch for false awakening, then you could be automatically stable and near the beginning of a cycle (or at least not too near the end). Just the other day I had at least 5 dream segments, the 4th was a false awakening and I triggered almost immediately. It was an awesome Lucid but then I got to focused on something and lost the world, as I lost vision I just focused on other sense (not even sure I really noticed I was blind at first) as the last sense faded I figured I'd wake up and just let go of the dream. Followed not by consciousness tho but by 5th segment, it was another false awakening, but I didn't realize it (perhaps It was fulfilling the expectation of waking up when I let go. When I awoke from this segment I had forgotten them all. An awesome lucid totally tossed away. I knew I had dreamed and lay there thinking I hope I didn't forget a good dream, I hope I didn't forget a lucid, and then it all came back, segment after segment, all coming at once, The lucid was the most clear but as I typed I had to jump around because of all the segments.

Also this was one of the last cycles of the morning (tho I did get back to sleep once more), I had already awoken many times and recorded many other non lucid segments. One advantage of a dream in a late cycle is it can last longer, and also it can be more vivid. This is why there were so many segments of the dream (length) and so much recalled (vividness) and probably also why I managed to become lucid (brain waking up, although I did trigger off a dead relative (sometimes I miss this dream sign tho)).

So don't be to sure you want to go to sleep for 7 hours and have your lucid 70 minutes in, maybe you'll end up having a lame blurry low grade lucid every night, and then your subconscious will say objective fulfilled, and then you'll proceed to have 4 more cycles and no chance of recalling a blurry thing

Of course if you set an objective to wake from every lucid this shouldn't be a problem and you will almost certainly recall it (but again watch out for false awakening, you don't want to bury your lucids)