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Beginner lucid dreamers often wake the moment they become lucid. They may recognize lucidity and conclude that they're dreaming but are frustrated because they wake or fall into non-lucid sleep soon after accomplishing lucidity. But, this obstacle is only temporary.
With experience, you may develop the capacity to stay in the dream longer. As you'll see in a moment, there are likewise particular techniques that seem to help prevent premature waking. Continue to apply will and attention to your practice, and you'll be able to fine-tune your lucid dreaming skills.
Lucid dreamers have discovered assorted ways of remaining in the dream state when menaced by early waking. All the strategies involve carrying out some form of dream action as soon as the visual part of the dream starts to fade.
Some prevent themselves from waking up by centering on the senses other than vision, like hearing and touch. They report that all of the following actions have successfully prevented awakenings from visually faded dreams: listening to voices, music, or their breathing; beginning or continuing a conversation; rubbing or opening dream eyes; touching dream hands and face; touching objects like a pair of glasses, a hairbrush, or the edge of a mirror; being touched; and flying. They're based on the idea of loading the perceptual system so it can't shift its focus from the dream world to the waking world.
As long as you're actively and perceptually engaged with the dream world, you're less likely to make the changeover to the waking state.
Many other people are light sleepers who find it hard to remain in lucid dreams for long periods. These individuals require more powerful strategies to help them remain in their lucid dreams.
A few years ago I had the good fortune to discover extremely effective process for preventing awakenings creating new lucid dream scenes. I began by reason that as dream actions have corresponding physical effects, loosening up my dream body may inhibit awakening by bringing down muscle tension in my physical body. The next time I was dreaming lucidly, I tried the idea as the dream started to fade, I relaxed totally, dropping to the dream floor.
But, different than my intention I seemed to wake. A few minutes later I discovered I had really only dreamed of waking. I repeated the experiment numerous times and the effect was consistent—I'd remain in the dream state by dreaming of waking. But, my experiences suggested that the crucial element wasn't the attempted relaxation but the sensation of movement.
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