Dreams never clear? Never feel realistic?

[Acoustic]

I can't recall a time in my life where a dream I've had has felt realistic at all. They are usually very blurry, my eyes always feel tired during them, and I generally just wanna sleep. My dreams also change rapidly without any sense. They could even pan out into the stupid movie like scene. It's rather frustrating because I hear most people I speak to have sonewhat realistic/ clear dreams. Could this be a sleep problem or something else? I would like to enjoy a lucid dream sometime lol.

[BossMan]

Dreams can be super blurry and super vivid, it really just depends on a bunch of different factors. Although, you can control how vivid a lucid dream is by shouting verbal commands to increase color depth, brightness, and clarity. As far as normal dreams are concerned, I heard mantras, visualizations, and meditative techniques can increase how vivid your dream is. Or you can just take the easy way out and buy some lucid dreaming pills that will increase your dream vividness as a side effect of the drug but you cannot use this frequently even if you choose this option so its best to learn the natural way.

[Carrot]

The clarity on a dream is determined by how much you can recall of it. I used to have blurry dreams till I started to write my dream journal, in a few months they were so vivid I felt like I was living it. Randomness is all part and parcel of our dreams because our logical brain is shut off.

[MasterMind]

What you think in this physical world is what will become of you, what you think in the non-physical world of thoughts, doesn't become, it IS! This morning I had a lucid dream that was perfectly clear, but then I thought let's do a reality check just to stabilize a bit, I looked at my hand and saw my middle finger being super long, but at the same time I thought of a time where my reality check actually made my dream unstable, and I worried if that would happen in this experience as well. And well... As I said what you think there doesn't become, it already is, so the moment I thought of that my dream turned unstable and I woke up. So remember that you control the experience, and what you worry about will manifests instntly in your dreams, so get that idea in your head right now, and think of ways to change it to a positive one where you control the vividness of the dream. I know it is difficult to change a belief, but it's necessary. After I woke up I thought "Why not intend what I want to experience right here and right now in the awake state, and then when I dream it, it will automatically be stable." Not logical to believe, but in this moment I believed it would be so, and it was! In this non-logical state of mine I thought of a wall of colors, going from lighter to darker colors. The darker it got the more stable the dream would be. I focused on the dark blue color, no idea why I didn't choosed the black color. xD But then I was walking through lots of doors, teleporting me to different locations and I then ended up on a grassfield. Everything was now perfectly stable, incredible feeling, and I started to fly and explore the alien city around me. I actually ended up waking up because of another belief, that talking to "dream characters" will make me unaware ot wake up. So that's something I need to work on, because it is so deeply in my subconscious so I can't avoid thinking that. Ok sorry for a long story, but what I want to say, is that if you want to navigate and be in control of that world, you need to be in control of yourself, because you are in full control of the experience, and since you are not used to this amount of control you get punished by your own doubts and certain belief systems. Just something to keep in mind, so think positively (not in a naive way), find ways to believe what you want to be your experience.

[Acoustic]

So I have worked on relaxing my self before sleep, controlling my breathing in a set pattern, and then focusing on having a clear imagination. Last night I had a lucid dream where I popped up in some field that was clear and sunny. I knew instantly that I was dreaming and shouted more clearity. It got clearer but just like that I woke up. My clear dreams never last long and I either wake up or go to a dream where I'm sleeping. It's frustrating really, how do I improve them

[MasterMind]

If your dreams are clear and vivid instantly and you get lucid without even trying, chances are more often that not, that your aminergic system (the system of the brain that makes you alert and think critically is too active). And it's almost impossible to not wake up in these situations, but it can be solved of course and that is by experiencing it over and over again until you just know how to deal with it, it is as simple as that. Usually solved by dream chaining though. However there can be situations where your timing is really bad and your REM is just ending and then it's much harder to induce the state again, but once again not impossible. Here you simply has to go back to the state of mind you were in (again by experience and intuitively.) However this would in a sense also be dream chaining. So I guess what I am saying is that you should practise dream chaining. I sort of explained how a return or dream chain can be felt like, in my previous post.