Trouble stabilizing lucidity

Well since I'm reading the forums(way longer than I'm registrated) I've gained lucidity in my dreams 16 times, but always failed to prolong it. My dreams are always vivid I'm able to remember them perfectly, but when I gain lucidity it's hard to keep it there after trying to stabilize it I get into the void then I wake up. I've tried counting, hand-rubbing, spinning, falling backwards, shouting, examining my enviroment, meditate, feel my dreambody, the how I got here memory, tried to jump and feel that I have wings thus floating around I even ran into the wall... but after 5 seconds that I've gained lucidity everything starts to morph go wavy like I'm on LSD then after 10-15 seconds of this waving-morphing world I go into the void, I feel that I'm asleep but I'm hearing myself talking and able to hear my breath. Then after struggling for a minute I wake up. I take B-vitamins daily, I'm not stressed, not hurrying, not getting super excited that "Oh my gosh, I'm in a dream!". I recall I had lucid dreams coming naturally when I was younger(6-8 years old), maybe I should forget all this adult stuff! :P If anyone has any tips what could help stabilizing and prolonging my dream I would be superhappy.
Much loves, IceCalea

Do you have an intention on how your Lucid dream will be before you go to bed? Usually it will help if you state what you're going to be doing once you become lucid, exercise it in your mind before falling asleep and stick to it. It help if you visualize yourself dreaming about the topic and becoming lucid.

Good luck :)

Sometimes I have trouble stabilizing and I lose the lucid and others I have no problem. I don't think I ever try to stabilize my dreams unless it I repeatedly have trouble with staying in the dream. It is just a chance luck thing in my opinion. Some days you will have super stable dreams and others it is terrible. Just keep at it. Thats what I do. I am going on three years.

See, the techniques you're using are great, and can be useful tools, but only if you put in the proper amount of effort and intent.

The real trick for maintaining stabilization in a dream is properly directing your focus and attention. If things start to fade, lock onto something in your environment and focus on it. Ultimately, though, you want to develop your focus so that you can scan your environment and focus on everything you see in a relatively short time. You'll find out for yourself why this is.

Good luck!

Well, have you tried touching the dreamscape? If you see a pile of sand, try rubbing you're hands in it. Works for me, but then again, spinning also works for me.. So I really don't know what the problem is...!?

Spinning makes me go into the vast Void, so I won't do it. Today I had a lucid dream again, I didn't do reality check nor had any unusual thing, I just felt this is a dream and I knew it(I was very close to be awake I guess), my vision was superclear and much more real than real life :roll: Then I didn't want to do any stabilizing or chanting just jumped and fly upon, it was amazing, but then I got greedy to fly faster. I'm not slow but not flying superfast so let's fly! Then I got into the Void again, because speed does that(had a non-lucid dream where I jumped on my brother's back who had super fast running(we ran from my grandma's house to Egypt).

hey ice...

i'd have to agree with some of the suggestions made here....holding on to the dreamscape is something that works for me. you will find that in terms of sensing with the dreaming body, the tactile sense is the deepest - it enters the dream last and leaves last. the visual sense is the weakest - it enters first and leaves first. you notice that when you "realize you're dreaming" - it is a bodily sensation...waking up in the dream is a bodily experience.
second - just like in the real world, there are things in dreaming which will take more energy to do than others. it takes more energy to play a game of soccer than it does to sit around and watch it. if you try to use up more energy than you have in dreaming, you're going to lose the dream. you may consider holding off on the flying for awhile as it seems that that taps you out and sends you back to nothingness. just to experiment and see what works for you, you know? i can tell you that from my own experience, i will only fly in dreams that are very stable and i have a high level of lucidity. trying to fly in a low level of lucidity will send me right back into an ordinary dream.
although it may not seem exciting or fun, sometimes before you can gain a good amount of control with your dreaming, you have to put some work into developing the tools to give you that control, like mzz suggests.