Thread: A month after my first lucid dream, I had 3 more

beginners and flying don't mix too well. Try simple summoning her without flying. Summon her out of your view and turn to see her.

Interesting replies. I never thought that flying fast could be a problem. I surely have a problem in thinking that I do not want to wake up, and that can be a factor of why I do wake up.

I'll try summoning her from my dreaming location, and then I'll move on into other lucid objectives.

Excitement will make you wake up, and traveling at 10,000 KM/h will excite you...
Anyway, like someone else said, you have to use your senses to prolong. Dream spinning is also supposed to stimulate REM (which would prolong your dream).

Heya there,

Remember its your dreams. What works or does not work for you is entirely subjective and personal. For some people flying is difficult, for others, its one of the easiest to do. For some people rubbing your hands together works to prolong lucid dreams, for some it does not. There's no set of definitives here.

I think things are going well for you. You've started becoming aware of dreaming in your dreams. However, lucidity doesn't stop there. You constantly have to work on it. You've learned how to become aware in dreams, now you have to learn how to sharpen that awareness, become more conscious, learn how to set lucid dream goals and actually act on them during your dreams, and how to prolong dreams. Its an exciting new world of possibilities

As for prolonging your dreams. Personally I believe that the best way to prolong dreams is simply to pay attention to them. Feel the things around you, smell the area you're in, listen to the sounds you can hear. That tends to extend and solidify a dream for me real quickly. The alternative, cutting myself off from dreamsensations (by for instance closing my eyes, sitting down and thinking of waking up) will instantly wake me. That's why hand rubbing works for many as a technique, I think, because it creates dreamsensations to focus on. That's why I think flying would actually be a good way to prolong dreams too.

And as for control in dreams. That one is trickier. Its mostly about belief, I think. If you believe it can and will happen, it will. But to truly believe something is hard. For instance if you try to summon someone out of the blue, your believe in that it can happen 'cause its a dream' will be at odds with your lifelong indoctrination that 'such things can't happen' (at least not in waking life). That's why such tricks like 'imaging the person is in the next room and going there' often have more succes, as they require less suspension of disbelief to make them work.

But in the end though, like I said, its always a matter of finding out what works (and does not work) for you.

Just my 2 dreamcents,

-Redrivertears-