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[lilliput]

Hello everyone. I found this site a few weeks ago and i stared using the reality check techniques, with some success! I have had two lucid dreams, one a few weeks ago and another just the other day. The only problem is that they don't last long at all- not long to even do anything. The first one was probably induced because i had been doing the reading street signs reality check thing about 3 times a day, and ended up dreaming about it, which got me lucid. I promptly decided to fly, it worked,but then things got a little fuzzy and then i went back into having a false awakening. The one i had the other night was triggered by i don't know what, i just realized it was a dream somehow. I immediately thought of using the spinning around technique, to help me stay focused, but i still fell back into a false awakening! strangely enough in my false awakening dream i went and told my sister that i had just had a lucid dream. The same thing happened in the first one i had. I was wondering whether there is a way to prevent false awakenings from happening, or if there are any other ways to keep hold of lucidity once it is attained.

[Umbrasquall]

Hey, welcome to Dreamviews! Sounds like you've already had some success, which is great! As for false awakenings, those aren't necessarily a bad thing if you consistently have them. Stability is a great thing for dream control and can be used as a conduit to access lucid dreams. To learn more about techniques I suggest checking out or tutorial section and/or PM-ing one of our Dreamguide Team members. Good luck.

[ninja9578]

Try to do a reality check every time that you wake up, that should help you catch those false awakenings. Oh and

[Wavefunction]

Welcome to the forum!