I've been into lucid dreaming for a pretty good time time now and I'm used to keeping a DJ and checking for strange details indicating a dream. I do reality checks in life by looking at my hand, though that hasn't happened in a dream so far. The problem is, every time I realize it's a dream I wake up. I had one dream where the people around me told me I am dreaming, I woke up after they had me convienced. Seems the most probable explanation is getting excited, but last night's dream kinda made that less likely - I was in a boat and when I looked to the sky I saw 2 moons next to each other. The dream ended. Maybe it is just by chance the end of the dream, but seems unlikely. I didn't even have time to say to myself that I'm dreaming, it's like it is a reaction to discovering an anomaly in the dream.

The longest LD I have had is one where I tried to focus on an object with the intent of prolonging the dream, but even this lasted no more than several seconds. I'm already used to seeing flaws in the dreams to indicate ones and I've had a good amount of these, there is just the problem of keeping lucidity for longer than several seconds... Any ideas, seeing how the usuals of "don't get excited" and "try stabilization methods" don't seem to help me much...