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I have had a lot of trouble waking up too soon after becoming lucid. I've figured out why. Its because I take too deep of a breath too fast. Next time you want to wake up try breathing in quickly.
If you suffer from premature awakenings like me, try breathing at a steady pace.
It has never happened to me but excellent information Im sure it's beneficial to others. thanks a lot for sharing.
Can I add my two cents to this post? I have an interesting theory myself as well.
Recently I've "mastered" a technique where I can stay in a lucid vivid dream for a very long time. It's that whenever it seems I'm going to loose "dream clarity" I somehow automaticaly subconsciencely loose lucidity for the time in which is easy to get excited or loose a clear view. When it seems to be ok I gain lucidity again. I still don't exactly don't know how this works but it has something with the believing that this will work and it works for me. Just today I've had a few false awakenings in a pretty long lucid vivid dream.
By the way, the breathing actually works. I've experienced it a few times in the past. It's great for waking yourself up from a nightmare.
For waking up deliberately, the breathing technique seems good. Opening your real eyes works too, but it's hard to explain how to feel where they are.
For staying in an LD, the main concept is to remain calm. The more excited you get, the more active your brain becomes, and the more likely it is that you will wake up. While there are different ways to stay calm, anothrguitarist and CloudOne make good points. Slow, deep breathing is used in various meditation and self-hypnosis techniques IRL, so it makes sense that it would have a calming effect in the dream world. While I've never tried to lose lucidity to stay asleep (although that does make sense since non-LDs are more stable in terms of length), inducing FAs achieves the same effect because your (less stable) consciousness is put on hold so that the emotion center of your brain restores its normal chemical balance.
If you become lucid during a nightmare, why woudn't you just change the scene?Quote:
Originally Posted by CloudOne
I used it in bad dreams where I had no control so I couldn't change anything in it. But it's a very good technique, shaking head while breathing quickly makes it even better.Quote:
Originally Posted by dsr