Thread: HELP! LD is Like Balancing a Needle!

For me it seems that LD'ing is like balancing a needle - I've now had about 10 very short LDs over a year and a half of trying (about 1 a month in the second half of this year), but I just can't seem to get the balance right between sleep and being awake.
Each time I have become aware I always seem to wake. Maybe sometimes I've been on the point of waking as I've become lucid, or other times I've just got excited and woken.
I just can't seem to stabilise.
I've tried the techniques, but I always seem to have so little time that I've woken before I can really get started.
I've tried relaxing, but it just doesn't seem to work.

I thought I had cracked it a month or so ago when I had a slightly longer LD, followed by a false awakening that I tried to stabilise, and I assumed it would steadily get better and each one would be longer, but no!

Getting a bit frustrated now.

Can anyone help inspire me?

Originally Posted by Goldenspark

For me it seems that LD'ing is like balancing a needle - I've now had about 10 very short LDs over a year and a half of trying (about 1 a month in the second half of this year), but I just can't seem to get the balance right between sleep and being awake.
Each time I have become aware I always seem to wake. Maybe sometimes I've been on the point of waking as I've become lucid, or other times I've just got excited and woken.
I just can't seem to stabilise.
I've tried the techniques, but I always seem to have so little time that I've woken before I can really get started.
I've tried relaxing, but it just doesn't seem to work.

I thought I had cracked it a month or so ago when I had a slightly longer LD, followed by a false awakening that I tried to stabilise, and I assumed it would steadily get better and each one would be longer, but no!

Getting a bit frustrated now.

Can anyone help inspire me?

It sounds like you are simply too focused on your physical body.
Instead I think you should have an attitude more like "let's try the Spinning technique, and see what it feels like".
Really assume that you have entered another state of reality, and that it's actually your physical body that exists in the dreamworld.

But yes, I understand what you mean, you are just starting to realize that it is a dream, and then from that point you feel that you have to make absolutely sure that you don't get distracted or excited in any way whatsoever, and it always feels like you could wake up at any moment.
It's like trying to balance a rope with your eyes shut.