Didn't have time to read the entire thread so sorry if this has already been stated. I've found that personally, thinking about waking up is the worst thing. For a while I was getting into too much tasking, doing tasks of the month, personal tasks, and trying to do Deep Dreaming tasks back when Deep Dreaming was still a private forum.

It was getting so that I would always be stressed out that I wouldn't be able to complete the task before waking up, that would cause me to wake up too soon. So I finally just said the hell with tasking, or at least with getting overly involved with them. I Just started having my own spur of the moment enjoyment without having to always feel like I have to get some task done. Which took most of the freedom out of it anyways. Once I stopped focusing on tasks so much, and just started enjoying my dreams my own way, they became increasingly longer due to not being so worried about it.


I know it's easier said than done, but I think it's best to not think about waking up at all. Because as soon as you start thinking about the possibility of waking up you are in danger of making it happen, or causing a false awakening to happen.