Problem with closing your eyes in a dream?

**WDr** · 08-17-2012 09:05 PM

Wow, long post! Jump to the green text to get right to the point

If I'm dreaming and closing my eyes, I would almost certainly wake up. Actually, this have been a problem in my lucids, when sometimes my eyes would suddenly close themselves in a LD. This made me either wake up or loose lucidity, because I failed at opening my eyes almost every time.

I've also read a lot of threads here on DV talking about the same problem. Most people have the opinion that closing your eyes wakes you up from the dream, and if it doesn't, your just lucky.

BUT in a lucid dream this morning, I found out something that changed my view on this problem:

I want to change the scenery, and in lack of other ideas, I use the old spinning thecnique. After spinning for a few seconds, I automaticly close my eyes, but instead of focusing on it, I continue to spin, vizualizing the new drem scene as vividly as I can. Then, out of nothing, I suddenly reach up to my head, and pull down the black hood that's made my vision go black (previously it was the back of my eyelids). I look around, and the transition worked perfectly.

I feel kind if stupid that I haven't realized until now that closed eyes doesn't have to be opened in dreams. What's blocking your vision is just your dream-eyelids

My point is that closing your eyes is actually a very effective way of changing the scenery in a dream: close your eyes, focus on the location, visualize, then remove whatever it is that is blocking your vision (a black hood, a sleep mask, a blindfold, powerful sunglasses etc.). Since everything in your dream need your attention to exist, closing your eyes will make the scenery disappear. Moving the attention to the location you want to go will make that scenery appear

**jblb2424** · 08-17-2012 10:37 PM

I still view closing your eyes as a bit risky, but what you suggested was a great idea. What i like to do it put my hands over my eyes and imagine when i put my hands down the scenery will change. Usually works really well for me. Or i would pull a smoke grenade out of my pocket and make it activate on the ground and completely consume me with smoke. Then i imagine when the smoke clears up i will be where i want to be

**Yosma** · 08-18-2012 01:51 AM

This is kind of similar to what I realized last night. During a lucid last night the dream started to fade and when it was completely black I found that I hadn't woken up yet, but that I had just lost the dream and I conjured up another and I was back in it. This made me realize that having a dream fade doesn't necessarily mean I have to awaken.