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After I started reading about lucid dreams, I managed to get lucid twice. The problem is, lucidity/awareness and consciousness seem to be different things. My dreams are usually blurry and not very detailed, and I easily become distracted in dreams, and after realizing I'm dreaming, I almost immediately forget about it, and the dream continues as usual. It's even worse than awakening, since I can't do anything. How can I attain concentration in dreams?
How are you at concentrating in real life? do you have a short attention span? If you do, it woudl have to be something you have to get under contorl somehow in real lfie for it to carry over into the dream. Practice day dreaming and focus on day dreams. Try to keep just one story going for a while. After you practice, your night dreams should be cleaer and more concetrated.
I just recently fixed this problem and honestly still have it sometimes. What I did was practiced saying phrases over and over without losing concentration on it, then carried that into my dreams by continually telling myself "I am dreaming" when I become lucid. Though Im not sure that practicing during the day was the actual solution, I am positive you should reaffirm a lot (I think eventually I/you will no longer require it as much).
Hi there
What you might want to try is, as soon as you get lucid, is to stabilise your dream by just stopping and standing still for a while, or even sit down. And closely observe your environment, in a neutral way, without being carried away. Get in the back of your head that you are observing your dream. I think that doing this will not only stabilise your dream in that particular moment, but it will also grant a longer LD in the end. So instead of jumping right into you wanted to do in that LD (flying or whatever), try stabilise it first. That might help ^_~
Well, I doubt I can do anything consciously at that point... And yes, I do have trouble concentrating on something for long in real life. My attention keeps shifting to something else.
They say you can stare at your hands and/or spin in place to improve clarity.
^That's very true. My first LD I stared at my hands, and because of this, I remained Lucid.
After I started pretending that what ever I was dooing was a lucid dream in everyday life every now and then that realy got me far... listen to musik while going for a walk, pretending that the walk is a dream... Live for the moment... Forget the past and the future... I belive its called meditation (that basicly comes from the word concentration) and can pretty much be done with anything you are comfterble doing =)
Play a computer game, interact with a friend...
I first relised how well this worked when I went to the gym... And I asked my self "is this a dream" and insted of looking around and going: "No its not"... I went: Yes it is! And I pretended that I was having a lucid dream about going to the gym... Living in the moment... Questioning what I was dooing without thinking to much about it...
"What am I dooing now?"
"is it a dream?"
"yes"