Guess this is a good place to start

**Virtualucidity** · 08-04-2014 10:15 PM

Hello, my name is Brian. I had my 25th birthday recently and I'm trying to make some positive changes in my life so I'm better off at 30 than I am now. Part of this is to renew my efforts in meditation and lucid dreaming. I have worked on both previously, but I tend to lose focus on become inconsistent. I've managed to have a few lucid dreams in the past, mostly from unwittingly using the WBTB method when I would wake up during the night and having that lead to a DILD. My lucidity levels tend to be quite high when this occurs, once I realize I'm dreaming the dream world becomes my oyster and I'm free to act and transform the world around me as I please. Unfortunately, possibly due to this high level of lucidity, the world tends to dissolve back into the waking state after only 5-10 seconds, so it's a lot of fun while it lasts, but there isn't an opportunity to do much. I've also had a few simulated lucid dreams, I can tell which ones are real and which ones are simulated because the simulated ones tend to last for several minutes where I do a bunch of random things you might associate with lucid dreaming, but would never be my first instinct in an actual lucid dream.

So, I hope to improve that situation to have more fulfilling LDs, and of course I would like to go from having a few in my life to maybe a few a month, or even a few a week someday. I'm also very active in the virtual reality community (hence the forum handle) very fun stuff, hopefully it will reach the potential that lucid dreaming offers someday, but for now there are still limitations.

**MisakaMikoto** · 08-05-2014 12:22 AM

Hi,

This forum is a great place and you should definitely enjoy your time here
There are lots and lots of people who are quite helpful, friendly n' awesome

Without it i would probably wander and wander for years before making any big progress with my path to lucid dreaming.

And about your short lucid dreams.
I can advice you to read up some Dream Stabilization n' Dream Control stuff.

Becoming lucid might cause dreams to destabilize and eventualy end and that's what Dream Stabilization is preventing
Even if dream ended and your back in your bed there's still chance to resume lucidity, that technique is called DEILD or simply Dream Chaining.
After awakening from destabilized lucid dream you attempt to stay motionless, calm and relaxed. You might start feeling or seeing weird stuff till suddenly you will be back in dream.

I belive the problem might be suddenly getting excited when your figure out that it's a dream.
Keeping yourself calm might slow down destabilization or even stop it.
Yet you should keep in mind using stabilization techniques, if your dream will start to become foggy or when you will start to sense your real body.

Some threads which might be helpful to you with Dream Control n' Stabilization stuff:
Official DreamViews:
Stabilization - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Dream Control Tutorial - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Community Driven:
http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-cont...m-control.html
http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-cont...-tutorial.html
http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-cont...-hours-ld.html

Also if your going to go with learning to DEILD (Dream Chain) lucid dreams then you should read up this thread aswell:
http://www.dreamviews.com/wake-initi...explained.html
You might experience REM Atonia when using Dream Chaining, yet worry not from experience i can say that it is quite cool experience

If you have any other questions feel free to ask.
And now Goodluck with future lucid dreaming practices fellow dreamer

**Virtualucidity** · 08-05-2014 01:50 AM

Thanks for the tips. I still have a lot of work to do if I want to be able to have LDs on a consistent enough basis to worry about sustaining them, but it will certainly help to have some idea what to do when I get there. I've tried a few things in the past like spinning, which does seem to help a bit, but I think I do just get too excited and that causes things to unravel. I have experienced sleep paralysis on a number of occasions throughout my life (never in conjunction with my LDs) it's not a fun experience, but at this point I tend to figure out what's going on before too long, so the bouts of sleep paralysis aren't as bad as they were initially. Still not fun to wake up paralyzed, but I've only hallucinated during sleep paralysis once, that was a bad experience.