Lucid Dream Challenges

Hello and welcome to the forum! As @kikorangi 8 stated, being conscious while dreaming is one skill and controlling and maintaining your dream is another. I also agree that it's quite impressive that you've managed to already start lucid dreaming for a month of trying.

That being said, as someone who is actually more skilled in dream control than in falling into lucid dreams, I may be able to help you a little. I actually never had such problems. When I have a nightmare, which doesn't happen frequently, I actually somehow developed the habit to wake myself up instead of turning it into a fully-featured lucid dream. I am like "I hope this is dream, I'll close my eyes", because I know that if I close my eyes, I'll open them in real life. It is understandable that nightmares give you a hard time predispositioning you into lucid dreams with a good level of control. So heads up and keep working on it!

I also think that you are not lucid enough. In my opinion, when you become lucid, the first step is to stabilize your dream and then become even more lucid (remind yourself that you are dreaming and that you can do everything). Frequent beginner's mistake is to rush too much. You can't just start ordering your dream characters without first being in a stable dream and lucid enough.

Another potential problem would be in your lucid mindset. Sometimes it's hard to imagine how you can do everything, despite being lucid in a dream. Especially when you don't have enough practice. You don't know what to do, to make something happen. And honestly, it's been a slight issue with me either, just once though and it wasn't all that big of a deal. What completely fixed those issues is me knowing that "thinking" is not what makes things happen. "Wishing" is not what makes thing happen. "Ordering" is not what makes thing happen. It's "Imagining".

In my own beliefs, "Imagination" is the engine of lucid dreams.

Hi there, and welcome to the forum!

To be honest, if you've been doing your lucid dreaming practices consistently for about a month, I think you're doing extremely well already (Daniel Love tends to estimate that most people will have their first taste of lucidity after somewhere between two and six months of practice, if I remember correctly), and this is nothing to worry about. I feel pretty confident in saying that this will get easier with practice 😊 As Daniel Love tends to say, dream control is a separate skill from lucid dreaming itself: dream control is a skill that one usually learns after learning how to achieve lucidity.

That said: I don't know if you've watched some of Love's videos on this topic? I'll leave links to a few of his videos for you below, as I think they might be helpful, and he explains these things far better than I ever could. Some of these are quite directly linked to your question, while others may seem less so immediately (but I think those contain important information that is relevant to your question as well) 😊

• Increase Lucid Dream Clarity -- Do THIS to have VIVID Lucid Dreams!

• How to Lucid Dream LONGER for Beginners (The ULTIMATE Guide)

• Dream Powers! An Easy Trick to Help Control Lucid Dreams

• Lucid Dreaming: The ULTIMATE Guide? (Intense!)

I'd also like to direct your attention towards the following video, as I somehow get the feeling that you may not have stopped to fully ground yourself within the lucid dreams you mention here? In this video, Daniel Love touches on the importance of understanding what being lucid actually means: Was That a Lucid Dream? How to Really Know If You Were Lucid