So I've been working for a couple weeks now on getting lucid. I've started a dream journal, and have noticed my recall improving significantly. So far, my 2 lucids have been DILDs, with the trigger each time being light switches not working. My problem is that I wake up almost immediately upon realization that I'm dreaming.

Last night, I was having a dream where I walked into my dark bedroom, and tried to turn on the light. It didn't work, and in an excited rush of realization it hit me that I was dreaming. I tried the switch again, which still didn't work, so I jumped on my bed and was immediately sucked like a vacuum cleaner under the bed by what felt like some malevolent force. I caught the edge of the bottom of the bed and held on against the vacuum, and was really pissed and yelled F*** YOUUUUUU and flicked off the unseen force, knowing that I was only dreaming. Then I woke up, after only having been lucid for a few seconds.

It seems like something similar happens each time I become lucid. In any case, I seem to wake up almost instantly. So has anyone else experienced this sense of sort of being "kicked out" of your own lucid dream? If so, how did you overcome it? I'm really excited to start exploring my dream world, but something seems to be blocking me.

Any thoughts would be appreciated

Thanks,

~Dizz