Thread: Stabilization Fundamentals

How likely is putting yourself too much in the dream going to not only make you lose lucidity but the whole dream collapse? The past 10 or so lucid dreams have collapse on themselves despite my attempts to stabilise. My attempts included rubbing hands while looking at them and summoning a flower to smell (in the last attempt, both of these were tried).

Originally Posted by fOrceez

How likely is putting yourself too much in the dream going to not only make you lose lucidity but the whole dream collapse? The past 10 or so lucid dreams have collapse on themselves despite my attempts to stabilise. My attempts included rubbing hands while looking at them and summoning a flower to smell (in the last attempt, both of these were tried).

It's not likely both will happen.

In this cases you described there's really nothing extraordinary about losing the dream after using those techniques, since both are fairly ineffectual to begin with. As Ctharlhie mentioned, small bits of sensory input here and there aren't going to do you much good. In the end, you need to be spreading around your attention as evenly as possible.

Yes, huge bursts of sensory input are often useful for prolonging the dream a bit longer, but small things, like handrubbing, aren't going to help you much unless you're simultaneously distributing attention elsewhere.