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I haven’t had many lucid dreams, but this mirrors my experience. Whenever I realise I’m in a lucid dream, the trick to keep me in it is to manage how much control I exert. If I start to direct it too much I can feel myself waking up and have to “let go” and not react to what’s happening, letting the dream carry me wherever it seems fit. After a while I begin to feel consciousness drifting away and can again exert some modicum of control to explore my surroundings. Rinse and repeat, until I inevitably wake up.