Thread: What do you experience when losing a lucid dream?

For me, the lucid just fades to black in about half a second. Really no chances to ever get it back, because I'm usually awake before I can actually do anything.

When mine end, my vision starts fading to black. Sometimes I'll still be able to hear things in the dream but I'll be blind at that point and know it's ending.

One time I actually became lucid from the sound of my real body's breathing in the background of the dream. That was rather odd and fascinating to realize your in a dream listening to your real body breathing on the other side.

It just fades to blackness. :\

last 3 lucid dreams have changed night/day first one it was day and turned to night, and the other two it was night and switched to day, enough so that when it happened I knew I was about to wake up.

I hope this is not too frequent in lucid dreams and the lenght actually increases over time. I've had my first 2 lucid dreams today (or truly lucid, anyway) and they both ended a few seconds after becoming lucid. White clouds of fog/light appearing all around, separating me from the dream and then I'm lying in my bed with open eyes. Just like a switch. I tried hard to stay focused on the dream, but I'm unable to control the process.

Originally Posted by BjStrife

I hope this is not too frequent in lucid dreams and the lenght actually increases over time. I've had my first 2 lucid dreams today (or truly lucid, anyway) and they both ended a few seconds after becoming lucid. White clouds of fog/light appearing all around, separating me from the dream and then I'm lying in my bed with open eyes. Just like a switch. I tried hard to stay focused on the dream, but I'm unable to control the process.

That's strange because with my first lucid dream when I woke up, my eyes were wide open too and I was staring at the ceiling

Your lucids will get longer the more you practice and used to controlling emotions when becoming aware.

Originally Posted by rhill1991

Your lucids will get longer the more you practice and used to controlling emotions when becoming aware.

I definitely hope so !

It gets really hard to move. Like I want to turn around but it's soo hard.. and then I wake up.

it's really interesting that people experience different sensations during the dreamscape amidst waking up

Whenever I begin to lose "control" I can't explain it, but goes from looking out in the dream to having my eyes closed in bed. Thinking like fuuu

Originally Posted by willeex

Whenever I begin to lose "control" I can't explain it, but goes from looking out in the dream to having my eyes closed in bed. Thinking like fuuu

Why "fuuu " ?
You can just deild and have another lucid dream.

Just a thought: is there anything in your waking environment that could explain the rumbling noise? For example, if you lived near a train track, the rumbling could be a train passing by that regularly wakes you up. Or if you live in an apartment, and a neigbor has a coffee grinder that you can hear through the thin walls. Just a thought. If you routinely wake up after you hear a noise in your dream, the source of the noise may be external.

EDIT: I kept thinking how you could determine whether the noise is external. Of course if you know of a reoccurring noise that you have experienced during waking then there you go. If not, if you wake up soon after hearing noise in your lucid dream again, make sure to write down the time. If you collect a few such journal entries, if the time is roughly the same, set your alarm clock to go off before that time, and then stay in bed awake listening for that noise. Alternatively, you could try out ear plugs to see whether this will cause the noise issue to not occur, but I have read the advice that for safety sake, it is better to not sleep with earplugs unless someone else not wearing earplugs is in the house - for example to hear smoke detector. Also you then need a non-auditory way to wake you up if you need to go to work or something. If the ear plugs help, then the noise may well be external - unless of course you are "expecting" the ear plugs to work, and then they may even work against imaginary noise.

I start feeling how sleepy I really am

The dream will become less stable and vivid, and oftentimes darker. Sometimes the dream world will shake and crumble apart. If I try to move sometimes I can often feel my real body in bed moving. The dream will be reduced to just imagery in my minds eye and I am awake.

The strangest experience I ever had though was when I was chatting with my dream guide and the dream started going dark and shaking. "Crap I'm waking up!" I think I can anchor my self by grabbing something and stay in the dream awhile longer. I grab her hand and the whole dream disappears, I am awake in my bed but I can still feel her hand for a few more seconds.

Interesting thread!
I loose sense of my dream-body - then the visuals disappear somehow - but I am not really sure, what I see instead - if it is fog or dark or whatever.
It goes very fast - got to say I have not yet put my attention to it - not really sure - but no noises or feeling of my real body before I wake up.
But last LD and in one a bit longer ago - where I had a to do list - for TOTM or comp - I had the feeling I almost willingly left the LD, when I was done.
To then rush and document it in some way.
That is soo silly - and that were my two longest ones, except one other long one, where the real life doorbell woke me up.
Maybe it is imagination - and these dreams were so long, because I had a project - or several - but I am afraid I woke myself on purpose from those.

So if I happen to have a to do list again - I include - dream on at your leisure, when you're done.
These dreams didn't feel as if they would slip from me on their own.
When this is so - slipping away - it seems to happen in the first few seconds or maybe one/two minutes.
Twice I was able to DEILD back in - not sure if it was both times - but once at least - the second LD was as frustratingly short as the first part.

So maybe - when I "survive" the first minutes - I have time..

I have a combination of: slow fade (with enough time to react by spinning, rare), instant eject to awake in bed, no transition (also fairly rare), lose visuals but still lucid (in the void, a couple of times), and a fast fade (visuals go out instantly) to awake in bed (also no time to react, this is most common). All "fades" are visual and tactile, no sounds.

Yes, "just do DEILD" is easy to say...I always try, but I've never made it back in, but that may be because most of my LDs have been late in the morning when my sleep for the day is pretty much done, or I have body discomfort of one type or another, or I'm just too excited for having been lucid.

When I wake up from a lucid dream, my awareness just shifts very smoothly into waking state. So it's a a great way to wake up like this. It's like there never was any gap between dream and being awake, just that I know what's going on. But with normal dreams, I usally get that "Aha" moment, it was only a dream. And sometimes that is pretty fun as well.

I've only had 2 (short) LDs so far but both times I could tell when it was about to end. The dreams went from crisp and clear to slightly blurry and distorted like looking at the reflection in a perfectly still body of water and suddenly the wind starts blowing and brings everything into motion. In the most recent LD I was able to successfully stabilize the dream twice by rubbing my hands together when the distortion started. When the dreams ended I woke up immediately. Being still a newbie with all this lucid dreaming stuff I blame it on my excessive excitement I remember both dreams as though I experienced them in waking life. Will be interesting to see how this develops as I continue down the road.

Literally, I just wake up. Although most of the time. Something odd happens.

One night I was sleeping a tent in my backyard with my friends (lol) and in the morning, I was having this dream. At the end of this dream, a nuke went off and their was this big BOOM.

It startled me and I woke up.
My friends were like "did you hear that?" and I was like "wait, that was from my dream"

I figured out the transformer across the street exploded.
Isn't it odd the mind knows and prepares for these things?

I usually realize that I'm about to wake up and the first thing that goes through my head is DAMN, NOT YET.

Can't say i've had a proper LD yet, but when i'm trying to wake myself up, i feel a sensation of loosing control of my dream body almost like "zooming out" of the dream world then suddenly am in full control of my normal body.
Therefore i realised i can probably stop then happening when i have a LD.