Hello everyone,
Whenever I get lucid I spend a hell lot of time to keep stabilizing my dream... I'd like to know what works best for you and also give you a little roundup of what I am trying so far.
1. Touching objects - I pretty much do that as soon as I become lucid and it helps a bit, but I have had dreams fading while touching stuff frantically
2. Spinning - well, it does work, but I always have a false awakening afterwards and even though I never wake up in my actual home I never really remember where my actual home is. So only after a reality check I find out that I'm still dreaming. By the way - the popular reality checks where you look at your palms or press one hand through the other don't work for me as my hands are fully functional. But what works great is to breathe through my nose after holding it shut. It's funny that I can't recall where I live but easily recall those techniques... So spinning is no good for me if I want to stay in the same dream.
3. Yelling for clarity - it's funny, but I find yelling really hard. I did it tonight several times, and it has to be really loud enough to work, but I feel if I yell too loud I also make the dream fade. Generally it makes the clarity only slightly better
4. Avoid darkness - I realized that every time I spend too much time in a dark environment it starts fading, so I make sure I get into a bright area soon
5. Don't spend too much time lost in some detail... When I am idle for too long or too focused on something for a while I have to remind myself to switch so that the dream stays vivid. It makes my dreams a bit hectic though. For example I met a palm reader this night and started the conversation with 'I don't have much time', then ran off after only two questions, because I could feel that I should move on...
6. Try to involve other senses - well, my other senses don't work so well yet, just tonight I picked up a piece of bees wax (I was in some sort of medieval setting) but sadly I couldn't smell a thing
7. Trick myself - tonight I wished for a wizard and happily found one. He gave me a magic potion and that kept the dream stable for a while...

All these things occurred in wake back to bed induced dreams which according to me are much lighter and need a hell lot of stabilization to continue. Tonight I think nearly 8 times the dream faded and I could feel myself lay in bed but I stayed still and continued the same dream. So even though in bits and pieces the dream was altogether very long and had some amazing episodes, but I can't help but feel that I really have to force it to continue... No surprise I finally woke up with a headache, even though it was still totally worth the headache.. But I wonder how to stabilize dreams more effectively, what are you people doing often, what works best for you?