How to lucid dream?

How do you keep a lucid dream going? How do you make it last longer?

• Every time I have a lucid dream, it seems to end just as I am beginning to do what I really wanted to do in the dream. It's like I am having a regular dream, then I realize it's a lucid dream. By the time I realize it's a lucid dream, there's not enough time left to do all that I wanted. Then I try to resist waking up, but it doesn't work. Then I try to fall back to sleep. If I manage to fall back asleep, I never get to continue the same dream, it's always a new dream. I try to revisit the scenario that I wanted, but I end up in another dream. How can I keep the dream going longer? How can I revisit the same dreams? How can I increase the frequency of lucid dreams? Is it possible to always have lucid dreams? I do have a lot of them.

• Answer:

  I also have lucid dreams. One way to tell if you are having one or not is to look at your hand in the dream; your hand will look blurry or will have extra fingers on it. (Sounds bizarre, but is true...) When you realize that you are having a lucid dream and feel it slipping away, start to spin or turn around quickly, this sometimes works for me. Good luck!