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So I think I may have become lucid in 2 or so of my dreams last night, but as soon as I told myself it was a dream, I woke up. Am I doing something wrong? Should I be focusing harder or being more calm? What can I do to prevent this and maintain dream control?
Sometimes being excited ends the dream. When you first become lucid ground yourself in the dream. Use your senses. Stand in place and look around. Do a couple reality checks and then go do what you want. Sometimes it just happens.
Since these are early lucids I wouldn't say you were doing anything wrong. My first few were extremely short and unsatisfying, length and control seems to naturally increase as you become lucid more and more often.
For when they do begin to get longer, here is the dream stabilization tutorial. Use the ideas given whenever the dream begins to fade, or you feel like it's prematurely ending.
Oh, and congratulations on your lucids :content:
Look around, feel something, do a RC and then do all the things you want to.
My first lucid dream was really short...infact most of them still are. :roll:
The dream will get longer with more experience.
All of your advice is very good and should be helpful once I make RC's a bigger part of my daily life, but my problem was that although I've developed pretty good dream recall, I wasn't even doing anything when I woke up, and I didn't have time to stabilize anything. It was kind of disappointing, but I guess them's the breaks!