 Alright today's question guys comes from a buddy Jake and he says I've had a lucid dream But it seems to just last two seconds and it just stops, right? It's very short. I tend to enter a lucid dream and be like, okay. Yes. I'm dreaming. It's happened It's worked but then what happens is he just wakes up and he says why do I wake up? Why do why do the lucid dreams last so little time? Why do they just seem like a flash in a pan, right? Well, this is something which lots of people lots of people have the same problem Same problem where they learn how to lose a dream. They learn basic techniques for controlling your dreams Basic techniques, you know the way can juice the wild meditation and They have a lucid dream right and maybe you're you're similar. Maybe you've had the same sorts of issues I don't know leave a comment and what happens is you enter a lucid dream and straight away you wake up and This can happen for a number of reasons. Okay, so The first one is that you're doing something too engaging or too exciting And so what I mean by that is your your fighting thing people animals. You're having sex you're Running around like crazy or you're shaking up the dream consciousness Okay, now what I mean by the dream consciousness is your innate sense of whether you're awake or dreaming now This is gonna sound a bit crazy, but from my experience it sort of works most of the time Imagine the entire dream is like an organism. It's like a living thing Yeah, and you are like a tiny part of that organism the lucid dream of the the dreaming Entity the body right you your awareness You're a tiny part of this big organism. That's just swirling around in your head. Okay The more you shake it up so the more you run around having sex with people or tearing down buildings or Getting into danger or perceived danger Just less stable the organism's gonna be right and another thing is if you for example run around saying I'm lucid I'm dreaming here. Here. I am. Look at me The whole organism is gonna sort of collapse on itself. It might not happen straight away It might not even happen every time But generally speaking And I don't know why it works, but it does Generally speaking the more you shake things up in that dream world the less stable it's gonna be and so the first thing to do If you really want to stay in the dream for longer at least until you're more experienced, right? Because the more experienced you get the more skills you have for staying in the dream stabilizing it that sort of thing If you're less experienced just try and do less engaging or exciting things I know it sucks and I know it's not what you want to hear but until you've learned how to stabilize and stay in the dream for longer The most important thing you need to do is just to be less engaged with what you're doing Don't go around shouting. I'm dreaming because it's going to collapse the dream and all your hard work all of your Reality checks you've been practicing all the meditation you've been doing throughout the day And all the anticipation is just going to be ruined because you Have got too excited in the dream And you just collapsed it after two seconds. I mean it's still cool, right? You still had to lose a dream And well done for that. That's that's an achievement in itself, but in order to have longer and more profound experiences you need to stabilize the dream and at the start at least right the first few months of your practice You're gonna have to do it the I guess you can say the boring way right the the way where you're not as engaged and You're not doing those crazy emotionally Emotionally arousing things Okay, so that's the first one. I'm not sure if this applies to you, but then I'm just going on message. I received the email received the second one okay, and this this comes down to the I guess I want to say the physics of the dream even though it's not really the right term I mean the sort of foundation the structure and the the basic things you would have had to do to Have a lucid dream and to enter the dream space. So What I mean by that is If you are not getting enough sleep if you're tired, right? No, sorry if you're not tired and you're not getting enough sleep The dream won't be as stable So a really effective way of making the dream a lot more stable and staying in it for longer and having more lucid dreams just comes down to exercising And like recently I've been going to the gym a lot more often And I find that just by doing that just nothing else like just that alone Makes my dreams feel like they're lasting longer It makes them more vivid and it makes them more likely to be lucid. I've had two lucid dreams in the last few days right just naturally because I've been exercising more and So that's another thing you could try you want to make yourself tired Uh, so that when you go to sleep the sleep that you have is really stable And it's almost like you're sedating yourself, right? I know it sounds funny, but it's almost like you're You're running around like crazy during the day doing all these things exercising Uh talking to loads of people really expending yourself spending all your energy But so that when you go to sleep the opposite can happen You can then go in and you can relax deeply sleep You can shut down like your muscles are more likely to shut down faster When you're tired because your body is craving the sleep It's craving the uh the dreams in a way So that's it guys Go ahead and leave a leave a comment leave a like subscribe and I'll see you next time