to DreamViews, Kev!
How exciting to welcome another lucid dreamer to our community!
Those were very nice lucids you had, congrats on getting them. The second one could have been a DILD or a WILD. Depending on if you fell asleep (lost awareness) before you realized you are dreaming, or went straight into a dream from being awake, without any loss of awareness.
It looks like you had very nice awareness and control. Sometimes dreams end when we get to the end of that REM. We normally wake up at that time, even if only briefly. This probably happens often, especially with DILDs, when we get lucid towards the end of the REM when our mind is already getting ready to wake up and thus our awareness is getting raised.
There is couple of things you can do to stay in a lucid longer.
1. Pay attention in a LD and notice when it's starting to fade or you get other clues that its about to end. Then you can make a decision not to wake up, but wait in the void (between dreams) until next REM starts and new dream is available for you to enter.
2. Learn to DEILD. Same as above, when you'r dream or lucid dream ends, train yourself not to wake up. Or even if you do wake up, train yourself not to move or open your eyes. But instead, think about the dream you just woke up from and enter it again. Even if you don't enter the same dream, you will enter another one, only this time lucidly.
3. Practicing daytime awareness. This will help with having better awareness in a lucid dream which gives you better opportunities to notice when dream is about to end, better control, vision, decision making, memory...
4. Sometimes I manage to keep my awareness and stay in a LD longer, if I keep repeating my mantra "I am dreaming" while in a LD.
5. Yes, sometimes you can ground yourself in a dream by looking at some object. I sometimes look at my hands. Others recommend to keep moving, stomping your feet, smelling the air, singing or talking, touching the ground, eat a flower, haha, pretty much anything to get yourself immersed in a dream, to become a part of it rather than just an observer.
There are all kinds of daytime awareness tutorials. For me awareness means, to be aware of myself and how I effect my environment. Going through my day with "opened eyes". Noticing people and their faces, color of their clothes, try to recall their names, paying attention what I am wearing, what cars are passing me by, is it cloudy or sunny, cold or warm... Practically not be going through my day like on a auto-pilot, without thinking what I am doing, where I am, where I am going, why I am there and how did I get there.
This is a great WILD tutorial here WILD
DEILD http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...cid-dream.html
DILD http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews...ods-dilds.html
RCs http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...hecks-rcs.html
Please look around the forum, and ask if we can help with anything. Happy dreams
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