Thread: Clear/vivid Dreams

Simple. Clearness and vividness can be increased by improving your dream recall. The better you can remember your dreams and the details from them, the more realistic your dreams will become.

Keep a dream journal and take time out in the day to sit outside and pay attention to all the details in your surroundings. It shouldn't take long to notice improvement.

Also, http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamrecall.php

Yep, working on your recall will definitely increase vividness. Sleeping for quite long amounts of time, maybe over 9 hours for example, will tend to give you lots of long, vivid dreams because the REM periods keep increasing in length the longer you sleep for.

Like the people above me mentioned, dream recall is the key.

If you're looking to improve specific senses in your dream (tactile, smell, hearing, etc) try doing what Casualtie said. Take a couple of minutes each day to pay great attention to the sense you're trying to improve. If you're trying to improve your tactile sense in your dreams, grab a couple of objects and feel them for a little bit... pay very close attention to how it feels.

Hope this helps.

thanks for the tips!

The only non-drug/Dream journal way I know of is REM deprivation, which is NOT recommended.

Am I right in saying that all dreams have the exact same vividness, but that only one's recall of the dream determines it's clarity to the dreamer?

Also, WOOHOO! 200-reth post!!!

Originally Posted by Richter

Am I right in saying that all dreams have the exact same vividness, but that only one's recall of the dream determines it's clarity to the dreamer?[/b]

I think this is not necessarily the case.

Think of when you have lucid dreams for example. It has happened to me that I notice the dream is not vivid as I'm having the lucid dream. Now, if my recall wasn't that great that morning, then the dream might seem even less vivid, if I remember it at all. However, I noticed that the dream wasn't vivid during the lucid dream; as the dream was happening I was able to look around and think "this doesn't look too real..." and then shout out loud "increase vividness" at which point everything looked clearer, brighter, and more real. It didn't have anything to do with my recall that morning.