Heya,

It can help to set active dreamgoals for yourself before falling asleep. Have a clear idea of what you want to try, what you want to pursue, when you fall asleep. I find that this will generally help me stay lucid until the goal is completed.

When you get better at this, you can begin to set longer goals, multiple goals, or even series of goals: if A succeeds then I try B, if B then succeeds I move on to C, etc...

These things can help a lot in prolonging lucidity. Without them, I find that its very easy to get distracted (actually, even with them its still easy to get distracted, just less so ) and be pulled back into regular dreaming.

Hope that helps,

-Redrivertears-