Hi there fellow dreamers! I got into lucid dreaming last month and DV have been a great help so far, so now, after becoming a member I’m eager to know more

I had 6 LD’s so far and they all ended pretty much in the same fashion – I lost awareness and dream just went to be non-lucid and then faded. But the thing is – I see “the black”, I know I’m awake, but the dream is still going on, just without vision and with me feeling all the heaviness of my body lying in bed. I hear everything etc, like probably a half-dream? I’ve read that it’s better just not to open eyes and I can turn back into the dream, but it never happens.

Also all the things connected with concentrating on my dream body like spinning and other work great in my lucids just right until the moment I have this dream body. It’s kind of hard to try rubbing hands or whatever when you already can move them and toss the pillow
Maybe there is something else I can try on this step?

By the way, did you seem to be in hurry in your first lucids? I just can’t bring myself not to hurry, because I think that I must not waste my precious lucid time, feels kind of stupid when I wake up and realize that I, indeed, had just wasted it