Thread: How Do I Stay Lucid

A lot of times when you first start out LDing you get so excited you wake yourself up. Just stay calm, rub your hands together, and shout "Increase lucidity!". Hopefully along with staying in your dream the clarity will increase too, when you do that.

Great job on the LD. Your first couple will probably be short from getting excited and waking up or whatever but they'll keep getting better. Experience will let you have longer ones. It seems like you're on the right track with doing reality checks and re-entering dreams so you'll improve pretty quickly. If the dream starts to fade do what Qwinsepia said or you could try spinning around. I think I've read in LaBerge's books that anything that involves movement will increase your chances of prolonging the dream. I've only had 3 Lds so far and the first 2 were really short with me waking up right away but the third one was longer and I actually had a chance to try stuff like RCs and flying. I would say just keep reading the forum and thinking about LDs and you should get better.

There's a lot of things that you can do that increase the length of your lucid dreams, here's just a few of them.

Try spinning or rubbing your hands together. Studies have proven that those are very good ways of increasing the length of lucid dreams. However, these techniques may just keep you from waking up, not from losing lucidity. (I don't know for sure because almost all of my lucid dreams end from waking up, not from losing lucidity, and those methods don't work too well for me anyway.)

Try increasing the vividity of your dream, by staring at your hands until you can see them in full detail. This will cause everything else to be fully realistic as well, and the more vivid lucid dreams are, the longer they tend to last.

Constantly repeat to yourself, "I'm dreaming". If you keep it up, and focus on it, it's unlikely you'll forget you're dreaming.

Try doing something to awaken the logical abilities of your mind more, like mental math. The more active this is, the easier it is to tell that you're dreaming, making it far less likely that you'll forget.

Originally Posted by Serith

There's a lot of things that you can do that increase the length of your lucid dreams, here's just a few of them.

Try spinning or rubbing your hands together. Studies have proven that those are very good ways of increasing the length of lucid dreams. However, these techniques may just keep you from waking up, not from losing lucidity. (I don't know for sure because almost all of my lucid dreams end from waking up, not from losing lucidity, and those methods don't work too well for me anyway.)

Try increasing the vividity of your dream, by staring at your hands until you can see them in full detail. This will cause everything else to be fully realistic as well, and the more vivid lucid dreams are, the longer they tend to last.

Constantly repeat to yourself, "I'm dreaming". If you keep it up, and focus on it, it's unlikely you'll forget you're dreaming.

Try doing something to awaken the logical abilities of your mind more, like mental math. The more active this is, the easier it is to tell that you're dreaming, making it far less likely that you'll forget.[/b]

yeah ill try that they might work for me thanx

Originally Posted by ThePhobiaViewed

Great job on the LD. Your first couple will probably be short from getting excited and waking up or whatever but they'll keep getting better. Experience will let you have longer ones. It seems like you're on the right track with doing reality checks and re-entering dreams so you'll improve pretty quickly. If the dream starts to fade do what Qwinsepia said or you could try spinning around. I think I've read in LaBerge's books that anything that involves movement will increase your chances of prolonging the dream. I've only had 3 Lds so far and the first 2 were really short with me waking up right away but the third one was longer and I actually had a chance to try stuff like RCs and flying. I would say just keep reading the forum and thinking about LDs and you should get better.[/b]

well i have done that like fly and stuff but when i get a chence to like do something else my LD it just goes away till the next moring when i rember it.