Thread: 2nd LD

A week ago I had my second LD. But just like my first one it ended in a couple of second because I got to excited.

It started with me walking with my mother in a hardware store and I thought: hey, my jacket is stolen. So I made up a strange excuse to my mother to leave her. And to go find my jacket. I found some people from my student corporation and I thought someone was carrying my jacket, so I asked it back, he gave it to me but I realised it wasn't mine so gave it back. I went back to my search. Then I saw I guy acting suspicious. Hiding and keep looking my way. So I ran up to him and we started to fight. Next thing I know I'm in a little boutique in Spain. This could have induced lucidity but my mind said to me: you must have fallen on your head while fighting in the hardware store and he brought you here. even though I didn't wake up and was still in the middle of the fight. The guy also had two little dogs and I killed those and after that I threw him on the ground, with his head first and I thought I killed him too. So I freaked out, damn I killed someone. What am I going to do. So I called 112 (European equivalent to 911) and instead of getting the emergency service I was connected to my mother (this is the part were I got suspicious) I said: Mom, I think I killed someone. But when I looked back at his body, it was gone and the two dogs had turned into news papers. She asked me were I was, I said: In Spain, how long have I been missing (still thinking I was kidnapped to Spain). She answered: 1,5 minutes. During this conversation with my mother the guy had come back with a friend and we started fighting again. My mother asked my about my excuse for leaving her and I answered: That's not important, that was another dream. And then it hit me: It was a dream. I let go of the guy, I was strangling him. And I grabbed my nose to do a RC. But while grabbing the nose I woke up.

This is the second time this happened. In my first LD I also realised I was dreaming but the moment I wanted to a RC. I woke up. How can I stop this and go on with dreaming?

The realisation of figuring out your dreaming was enough to wake you up. The more lucid dreams you'll have you'll learn to cope with it more naturally.

The best thing you can do after doing an RC is to simple stand there and to take in your sourroundings, feel some objects and try and just understand that everything is a contruction of your mind and you have the power and will to stay there for as long as you want. It just takes time. I'm still working on it to to be honest.

Good luck

The thing is, I never really got to do a RC. I realised I was dreaming through other ways and when I wanted to do a RC to confirm it I woke up.
In my first LD I realised I was dreaming because I jumped 4 meters but I didn't get to do a RC back then as well.