I wasn't exactly sure where to post this so I decided that this was the closest section. Anyway, I had my first lucid dream last night (since I started trying to have one). I was in a dream just doing weird dream things when I suddenly realized that I was in a dream. Almost immediately the dreamscape blurred and vanished and I ended up in some sort of limbo. Normally this would probably be caused by either over excitement or the subconscious belief that as soon as you become aware, the dream ends. However I stayed calm once I realized that it was a dream and I believed that as soon as I became lucid I would continue on and do things. Also as soon as the dream started blurring I tried to bring my hands up to stabilize the dream but it vanished within a second of awareness and all I was left with was a vague image of my hands in limbo. i tried to return to the dream but I couldn't so I eventually surrendered and went back to sleep. Thinking back I should have tried a DEILD but it didn't occur to me then.

I'm wondering why I lost the dream as soon as I gained it and how, for future reference, to prevent it happening again.