Help me please! maintaining lucid dreams

[Juventas]

HI -

I am currently having the exact same problem. I usually realize my dream is a lucid dream by looking at a screwed up digital clock. Then I think, "Yes, I am dreaming!" I guess I get so excited I immediately wake up.

Sorry I'm no help.

[Nick]

I'm at the same place you guys are. Just had a dream recently where I became lucid. I was outside a building at the top of some tall steps so I thought I'd just float dowm. It went great for a bit and I floated for a while, then I woke up.

In the book Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge he writes that this is a common thing at first. After a while we're supposed to be able to stay asleep and lucid. Still working on it though.

[Juventas]

Maybe if everytime we checked for our "dreamsigns" during the day, we immediately repeat a little mantra to ourselves, like "I am calm" or stay calm... So basically when I check a clock during the day, I would think "Am I dreaming?" but immediately after tell my mind to stay calm.  I think I'll try that...

[Tombo]

Hello
In stephan Laberges book are several techniques to avoid awakening. You might want to studie that carefully.
For example:
When a dream ends, the visual sens fades first. As soon as you recongnize that, stretch out your arms and spin like a top. You must feel the vivide sensation of spinning. That will  usually prevent awakening and generate a new dream scene( Soemtimes the Bedroom!)
Tom

[realism]

Here i think can help.
There are 2 ways out of this, one is to turn the exerience into an astral projection, the other is two continue a new scene. One thing that can help greatly, is maintaining awareness. Once you realise you are lucid, make sure you stay calm, and dont let any emotions rise, as they can end dreams, and send you back. Remeber, you are in control of the dream, so maintain awareness, and just will a new scene to occur. Using the power of intent, you can create any scene, but you must remain calm. Also, make sure you dont get TOO caught up in any one thing, as you will lose concentration/awareness and you will slip into another normal dream. Also you can turn it into an astral experience, which is way more fun, plus, if you can do that, it builds up our strength for staying in the astral longer. I wrote a topic on that, so look there if your interested.
Hope I have helped

Peace.

[xgoz]

Thanks for the comments. I'll keep working on it

[Eonnn]

Hi

I am a frequent natural lucid dreamer so i think i can help. For me, when i become lucid it doesn't matter how excited i get it doesn't fade. For me, a dream will fade if im flying around too much or if im trying to accomplish too much at once. When this happens I do the following:

1. Use verbal commands such as "increase clarity" "increase dreamscape" "increase vision" anything you can think of can be a verbal command.
2. spin around with arms out
3. look down at my hands and rub them together
4. bend over and pick up some dirt and feel how real it feels in your hands.

I recommend that when you first become lucid you should complete steps 2-4, then try the following verbal commands before doing anything:

"increase dreamlength"
"increase lucidity"
"increase clarity"
"ignore all outside interferences"
"set brain to wake up only on my command"

I doubt that you can actually use a verbal command to make yourself go into a coma but I have used these commands before and I feel that they do actually increase how long the dream goes for and it makes you feel like your deeper inside the dream to the point where you could try getting out of it and not be able to.

Good luck, have fun and take care!

[AndrewTheSinger]

Wow Eonn, these are excellent hints, thank you for sharing them with us! I have asked my projections to last longer once in awhile and it actually works, but I don't do that all the time cause it feels like I'm always begging ehehe. Anyways I'm glad you said it and it's good to know the commands are effective for you too, really appreciate it.

[LA FORET MAUVE]

one good thing is to never look , focus too long on something, i look around me quickly, without sticking to anything deeply and change frequently my positions, movements etc...i learned the trick by reading Castaneda's "art of dreaming ".
Hope this helps !

[xgoz]

Hi, I've been working on lucid dreams for a while now but as soon as I become lucid the dream seems to fade out. Any tips to keep it going and control it?
xgoz