Thread: Was I close to becoming lucid?

The reason you kept losing your lucidity as soon as you gained it was because you were trying too hard to gain control. You must have been trying to move and see with your real muscles and eyes rather than relax and recieve input from your pseudobody in your dream. If you try to relax and let your pseudobody take in input from the dream (basically let your brain tell itself that it is sensing things ), and if you keep it clear in your mind that it is a dream, you will eventually be able to keep it vivid while controlling it.

If you're the visual type like me, then I've found that examining a single object brings that object into focus to the degree of reality, and if you slowly expand your area of focus the whole dream world can become just as real as reality. If you work better with sounds then just listen closely to one of the sounds in the environment. If you're tactile then feel something, or rub your hands together (which is what they always say to do o.O).