Thread: Arrrggghhh!! Blurring Everywhere!!!

Right so i had this lucid dream the other night, and i was in this hotel place, i did my reality check on a car reg plate and it work, so then i wanted to test my control, so i went upstairs into one of the bathrooms, and in their was this shower, which i made change into a bath. but the problem was every so often, my eyes would become really blurry an i was using techniques such as concentrating on your hand, but it didnt last for long!


Does anyone know any tips for keeping my dream clear and vivid without trying to hard!?

Thanks

Mustang69

Have you been keeping a dream journal?

How effective would you say your dream recall is?

This may seem irrelevant at first, but please work with me.

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Well yea i have been doing for a while but i had a break bout a week or so back cause of exams, but just like these last few days ive had a flurry of activity when it came to remembering my dreams.

when i put my mind to it i can remember yea,

how does this influence how clear my dreams are?

Thanks

Mustang

Originally Posted by Mustang69

Well yea i have been doing for a while but i had a break bout a week or so back cause of exams, but just like these last few days ive had a flurry of activity when it came to remembering my dreams.

when i put my mind to it i can remember yea,

how does this influence how clear my dreams are?

Dreams are truly the recollection of your unconscious episode. Truthfully, the cerebellum is inclined to assimilate experiences to make chronological sense. This is why it seems that you are experiencing the dreams as they are happening, but you are actually not and cannot. There cerebrum is functionally deactivied (no monoamine neurotransmitter activity) so it is actually when you awake that your mind re-arranges everything and functions on lucidity, dreams, etc.

The blurryness is likely the result of confused or difficult recall.

Either way, the recollection residually helps and reinforces attention and focus.

Your exams and suspension of the dream journal are likely the culprit to this blurryness. I could interpret it as the uneasyness about your exams (ie. "i do not know how this will come about" analguous to "i cannot see the future" etc. etc.).

What do you think...?

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Wow,
That was a detailed diagnosis doctor, lol i suppose you could be right,
just as i'm wondering, how is it that if it is unconcious episode then why does it feel as if it were in real time and i have the choice to do what i want?

and what about the hand technique, when i felt myself going, i tried focusing on the line on my hand and sumtimes it helped me clear it up a little.

Thanks again

Originally Posted by Mustang69

Wow,
That was a detailed diagnosis doctor, lol i suppose you could be right,
just as i'm wondering, how is it that if it is unconcious episode then why does it feel as if it were in real time and i have the choice to do what i want?

and what about the hand technique, when i felt myself going, i tried focusing on the line on my hand and sumtimes it helped me clear it up a little.

To demonstrate what I mean, have you ever watched a movie that was entirely in subtitles? Like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? Passion of Christ? Jet Li's Fearless?

If you have, do you remember reading the texts or what they said?

Typically, people will remember them as saying what they read in the text and not reading it. Thus bringing the response, "Oh yeah, it's in subtitles!"

However, this is just a natural phenomenon with the mind to collectively bind context into a whole; it just helps us function better overall.

The problem might be you are isolating your methods to specific senses (ie. sight). Try using all senses. This is what I advise to others which I first did:
- Stick out a hand with all fingers and start counting:
One - Olfactory (sense of smell); you often do not smell in dreams, but if you do, it will oddly be whatever you are thinking of. This is because dreams are introverted.
Two - Taste; samething as smell really, but different sense.
Three - Touch (notice t's are in alphabetical order); simply imagine touching something, can you feel it? Do you need to actually touch something to feel it?
Four - Auditory; (I cannot think of an easy way to remember this one, sorry); Can you hear anything? Can you picture a sound and make it real? This one might be the most difficult.
Five - Sight; how much detail can you see. Is there anything surprising? etc.

The idea here is to simply use a process of sense recognition rather than just one isolated sense.

What do you think...?

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