Technique to prolong dreams when approaching reality

This is my first post; I just thought I'd share with you all a recent dreaming technique I discovered. 2 nights ago I was approaching the end of a lucid dream. I felt my left dream eye shut on its own. A few moments later my right dream eye closed. I could still hear and feel in the dream, but could not see. Now in past dreams before that dream, when the "eye closing" occurred, I would try to open my eyes back up. When I did this, my real eyes would open and I would be awake in my bed.

But 2 nights ago when it happened, I kept them closed. Then I gently rubbed my hands together while concentrating on sounds in the dream. My dream eyesight returned. I believe that the combination of keeping my eyes closed, hand rubbing and dream audio is what brought my dream eyesight back and as a result, prolonged the dream.

So give this a try when you loose your dream eyesight and are approaching reality.:D

Interesting idea. And welcome to DV!

This is kind of similar to something I've noticed. If in a dream I start to be able to feel my physical body I shouldn't try to open my eyes or my physical eyes open and I awake. Sometimes this helps me milk extra time out of my dreams.

yea i do this technique alot it duz work wen prolonging dreams, i normall jus keep rubbing like the floor or somet in my dream and then im back

My dream visuals fade a lot regardless if I close my dream eyes or not. I do sort of what you described, but instead of rubbing my hands, I try to feel objects in the environment that I want to be in.

Rubbing objects in the dream.. NICE! I ought to try that because sometimes I wake up rubbing my REAL hands.

Yea, this is a pretty basic way to prolong a lucid dream or to stabilize it.