Thread: Problem with the length of an LD

1st problem you were struggling.

You should not be thinking about stuggling, not be feeling any anxiety to keep the dream alive, neither should you try force the events as they unfold, typically for new learners to lucid dreaming. I guess by this being in the newbie zone you are new to lucid dreaming.

How often do you have LDs and are they usually like this? If you have only had a couple you will find that they are often short lived. Which is the way for most people, the longer the time period you have them for the longer they last. It takes time and practice. But it is important not to think as soon as you come lucid to try prolong it.

Think of it this way, you are already dreaming, and normal dreams last for a fair mount of time, and by you panicing and having the mindset of worrying about it ending, or how you are going to prolong it will take your mind away from creating the dream, to ending it.

When you next become lucid just follow the dream as it was, so if you were in a field or in the city or something then just stay there, try not to do anything ground breaking like bending time and space, but instead just study the environment around you. Look at what is around you, breathing in the air and feeling the wind on your face, smell things, and study things, you will find as you relax and appriciate the dream, that you will steadily increase the clarity and vividness of the dream as your mind stabilyses from the dream state to the lucid state.

There are so many more things you can try if this doesn't work for you and happy to help if I can

Welcome to the forum by the way.
Adam.

Originally Posted by Adam

1st problem you were struggling.

You should not be thinking about stuggling, not be feeling any anxiety to keep the dream alive, neither should you try force the events as they unfold, typically for new learners to lucid dreaming. I guess by this being in the newbie zone you are new to lucid dreaming.

This is only my 3rd lucid, and yes, I was trying to rush things. I felt it was ending too quickly and I was running out of time to do something so I tried to fly and ended up hitting the ground. (Without any pain oddly) I guess I just need the chill the hell out next time

Originally Posted by Adam

How often do you have LDs and are they usually like this? If you have only had a couple you will find that they are often short lived. Which is the way for most people, the longer the time period you have them for the longer they last. It takes time and practice. But it is important not to think as soon as you come lucid to try prolong it.

As I said earlier this was only my third, but they've all been like this. However, this one was the most hazy.

Originally Posted by adam

Welcome to the forum by the way.

Thanks!

I am new to the site but have been able to LD for ages.

The advise i would give is similar to that above just relax and let a dream flow thinking whats going on around you then slip in a simple thought like i can't see any birds. Or there are not enough trees.

I find a negative thought like these will promt them to happen more so than thinking I want this to happen.

Don't ask me why but i seems to work for me. Which can be very irritating.

Once you got the hand of inserting things this way you will easily be able to turn positive thoughts into

err

reality ish!

You are wasting LDs without making progress. There is no way to relax when you are trying to "do things" as a beginner. To make fast progress, you have to devote some LDs to being "practice LDs" where you sacrifice fun things and practice control. Yeah it takes discipline and most people won't give it a second thought, so they get their experience the slow, hard way.

Next LD you have, devote it to practice. Observe objects, feel things, compare to the real world, analyze, test things out, trial and error. I guarantee you, it will save you a lot of frustration down the road--LD isn't something that can be mastered the quick and easy way. There's the quick and disciplined way, or the slow, frustrating, hard way.

Good luck, whatever you choose.