Thread: "Yanking" myself back into a lucid dream

I had a pretty amazing experience the other night and wanted to share it.

My lucid dreams are always very short, as soon as I become lucid I wake up shortly after. It feels like I'm not very "deep" into the dream if that makes any sense. The other night, I became lucid. I was in a room of my house, I looked at my hands and realized I was dreaming. I then walked around the room for a bit, and as usual, I began waking up very quickly.

Whenever I start waking up from a dream, it looks sort of like a closing portal. My vision starts closing from the outside towards a center point. Sort of like how the old looney tunes shows would close on a character at the end of an episode.

So I started to wake up, but I was getting frustrated because all my dreams are so short. What I did was grab on to the sides of this "portal" and pulled myself back into the dream as I was waking. And it worked! I was back into the dream, although not for very long. I then woke up and was astonished.