Have you ever wondered what to do when you're in the middle of a lucid dream
and you start to wake up?
How do you stay in the dream?
Let's find out.
Hi Dreamers! So you've spent weeks, if not months --
maybe years -- developing your lucid dreaming practice,
and finally, here it is! A lucid dream!
You're there, you're in the dreamworld,
and you can't wait to live out your dream goals.
It's exciting! But sometimes,
that excitement can wake you up.
It can draw you out of the dreamworld.
You feel the dreamworld fading around you,
and you're fading back into the waking world.
So how do you stop yourself from fading away back to reality?
Well, the first thing to do is to relax.
To calm down, and to quell the excitement.
Take a long, deep breath within the dreamworld,
and just calm down.
That's how you just stabilise the dream a little bit more.
And if that doesn't completely work,
the next thing to do is to engage in the dreamworld around you.
So, feel the environment.
Engage your senses -- especially tactile --
so that you really feel like you're part of the dreamworld.
Normally, that will be enough to stabilise the dream.
But sometimes, that just won't work.
And it doesn't matter how relaxed you are,
or how much you're engaging your senses in the dream --
the dream just keeps fading, and you can feel yourself slipping away
into oblivion and wakefulness.
Now, in many instances, there's not much you can do here,
because you're actually at the end of a dreaming period,
and you're going to wake up regardless.
But there are a couple of things you can try.
Now, firstly, don't think about waking up.
Think about anything else. Anything at all.
But ideally, think about the dream.
And while you're doing that,
take your dream body and spin round, like a ballerina,
within the dream. Keep spinning.
Go insane with it. Absolutely bonkers.
Like when you were a kid and you just would experiment with getting dizzy.
Do that in the dream.
And as you do that, be very careful about what you're thinking about,
because often, it can act as a transportation device within the dream,
and you might find yourself in a completely different environment.
That's normally the environment that you expect to end up in.
So often, this leads to a false awakening.
So what's a sign that the dream is about to fade?
Well, the most obvious one is that the visual and sensory elements of the dream
start to degrade. Quite often, the dream will get darker
and less interesting. You may even lose colour or sound.
And when that starts to happen,
it's time to put into place the tricks we have just covered.
Now, if you discover that you've lost light in the dream,
Sometimes, it's worth just looking for a source of light and moving towards it.
It's the old classic "Head towards the light".
There is, of course, another way that you can lose a lucid dream.
And that's not waking up -- that's losing lucidity itself.
Now, this one is a little bit harder to hold onto,
because newbie lucid dreamers are normally very excited by the dream,
and they haven't really grasped the concept that the dream is a virtual world,
a creation of their mind.
And so you will find all sorts of
weird logical inconsistencies. So,
very often, people mistake dream characters
for real people.
They think that they're other people having a lucid dream.
It's really common.
You will quite often have a friend in a dream, and you will be like,
"Wow! We're both having a lucid dream!".
And that's a sign that you're not fully engaged in the dream,
you're not fully lucid in the dream.
Because you should know that that is just a representation --
a virtual biological artificial intelligence representation --
of the person you know.
So you don't want to get caught up in the dream.
Because the more you get caught up thinking the dream is real in any way,
the sooner you will lose lucidity and get pulled back into the dream story.
It's very, very dangerous.
And this is where meditation and mindfulness come in.
And also reminding yourself, as you go through the dream,
that it's all a dream.
Now, one way you can do this is very simple:
Narrate the dream as you go.
And as you do that, include reminders that it's all a dream.
So for example, say this were a dream right now.
I'd say,
"I'm sitting on a chair. I'm talking to a camera. This is all a dream.
"I'm on YouTube. I can see my mirror.
"This is all a dream".
So you get kind of this rhythmical,
almost song-like narration to your dream,
with the reminders that you're dreaming.
And constantly, throughout the dream, take some time out,
just to remind yourself what it means to be lucid.
So if you're a beginner to lucid dreaming, these basic tricks
should help you maintain your lucid dreams for longer.
And as you do it, you will find it gets easier and easier
as you learn to stay calm, focused, and ready to act
when the dream starts to fade.
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and author. And a lot of this information
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Anyway. That's it for today.
I thought I'd do a short video on this, because a lot of people keep asking
how to sustain a lucid dream.
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I'm Daniel Love, The Lucid Guide. This is Lucid Dream Portal.
Stay lucid.