Hello Dreamviews, I have an "in-a-rut" question!

[Lodestone]

Hi all, I've been working on developing my Lucid Dreaming for about a year now. When I started off I made a lot of progress really quickly with the DILD method (dream journaling and using the plug your nose and inhale technique, specifically). I probably had 7 or 8 awesome lucid dreams within the first 4 months. Then I went on a bunch of trips for work and was so exhausted every night I gave up on trying for several months. Now that I'm home again, for the past 4 months I've been trying very hard to get back into it and I just can't seem to do it. Every time I realize I'm dreaming I go right into blackness - not really waking up, but kind of a conscious floating in blackness and I just can't seem to fall back into the dream state. This has happend probably 10 times so far. Does anyone have any advice on what I may be doing wrong? Or something I might be able to try to get out of this rut? Thank you so much for your help! Lodestone

[Vortaix]

Well.. In my opinion, that means your dream is unstable.. Try reminding yourself to stabilize your dream as soon as you get lucid.. By rubbing your hands, or focusing onto details, or even touching stuff around you and feeling with all your senses.. It depends form person to person, but stabilizing the dream will help for sure, and with it you can get the most out of your lucid dreams ! Good luck!

[gab]

Some lucid dreamers do end up in a dark empty void. Sometimes it's a place, where dream wants to show you something of importance, that's why there are no distractions, only a couple of items you should be concentrating on. I'm not sure, if this is your case, also. Did you try to yell out "is there something important you want to show me?". Or, did you try to get out of there by teleporting someplace else?

[Lodestone]

Some lucid dreamers do end up in a dark empty void. Sometimes it's a place, where dream wants to show you something of importance, that's why there are no distractions, only a couple of items you should be concentrating on. I'm not sure, if this is your case, also. Did you try to yell out "is there something important you want to show me?". Or, did you try to get out of there by teleporting someplace else? I usually look around for a second and see only blackness.. then i get frustrated because "it happened again" and i wake up! Thank you for your input so far, I'll keep an eye out for these things. Lodestone