Waking Up Options

I keep realizing I'm dreaming, then trying to lucid dream, but just waking up instead. I can make maybe a few minor things happen, but they blur and I awaken very quickly. Any tips?

I can only really sort of will the dream to change its content, not directly manipulate things like in the real world unless the dream has me already manipulating them as part of the dream already. Perhaps your trying too much too soon. Perhaps try and recognize fearful things, and hover and move whilst airborne to get away - use your instincts and make for the tree's for safety. After that my mind seemed to realize that those scary things had no authority and so I was able to will those things, like crocodiles and sharks, to disappear, not appear or be sufficiantly distracted. I did though notice that for whatever reason you might be dreaming about something scary, it still might try and appear in the dream in other forms...perhaps a little more dramatic - but that can be the point, to add complexity and interact with it.

This post has been edited by Adder: Mar 7 2011, 06:49 AM