Thread: Instant Lucidity!

I thought this was how everyone became lucid? I do RC's during the day and lots of autosuggestion and other little rituals, but I never become lucid from trying a RC, or from noticing anything strange. It's weird. Like OP said, a dream will start and right from the beginning I'll just somehow KNOW that I'm dreaming, like I'm just automatically more aware than in other dreams from the get go. Generally speaking there are never any particularly bizarre things going on in these dreams, it's usually very tame and normal, but after a little while I just suddenly WHAM into full lucidity, like I just suddenly choose, "Okay, time to act," and suddenly remember whatever I had planned to do and become wholly in control. This is how ALL of my lucids have occurred, I've only ever used RCs to confirm that I was lucid when it already was the case, or to stabilize. I never seem to become lucid as a result of recognizing weird events or doing reality checks. I become lucid in this fashion a few nights a week.

For people who don't do this, what is becoming lucid like? The thing that's strangest to me is that my non-lucid dreams tend to be significantly foggier than my lucid dreams, which are crystal clear as waking life. The dreams in which I become lucid START OUT already clear as hell, and I suspect it's that very clarity that triggers my lucidity. For others, do you start out foggy and then your dream self does the RC and then you become lucid FROM the RC?

Originally Posted by ThisWitheredMan

I thought this was how everyone became lucid? I do RC's during the day and lots of autosuggestion and other little rituals, but I never become lucid from trying a RC, or from noticing anything strange. It's weird. Like OP said, a dream will start and right from the beginning I'll just somehow KNOW that I'm dreaming, like I'm just automatically more aware than in other dreams from the get go. Generally speaking there are never any particularly bizarre things going on in these dreams, it's usually very tame and normal, but after a little while I just suddenly WHAM into full lucidity, like I just suddenly choose, "Okay, time to act," and suddenly remember whatever I had planned to do and become wholly in control. This is how ALL of my lucids have occurred, I've only ever used RCs to confirm that I was lucid when it already was the case, or to stabilize. I never seem to become lucid as a result of recognizing weird events or doing reality checks. I become lucid in this fashion a few nights a week.

For people who don't do this, what is becoming lucid like? The thing that's strangest to me is that my non-lucid dreams tend to be significantly foggier than my lucid dreams, which are crystal clear as waking life. The dreams in which I become lucid START OUT already clear as hell, and I suspect it's that very clarity that triggers my lucidity. For others, do you start out foggy and then your dream self does the RC and then you become lucid FROM the RC?

how long do your lucid dreams last once you find out. like you, my DILDs usually never spark due to some occurance, It was always spntaneous. My DILDs usually happend near the end of the dream where the analytical part of your brain starts to wake up while the dream still occures. By this time you could lenghen your REM period to make the dream last longer but usually they slowly fade away.