After practicing and thinking about lucid dreaming for a couple of months I have started having semi-regular LD's. I have had four since November 18, which is about one a week.

In my very first LD I experienced amazing visual clarity. It was like emerging from a tunnel into the real world. But in every LD since then the visuals have been very obscure and disappointing. I can feel my body, but I can't see properly.

The last two dreams were particularly frustrating. In both dreams a strange white light got into my eyes and made it impossible to see anything. The first time it happened after I closed my eyes while trying to change a pig into a man. The second time I was running into darkness and I wanted everything to get brighter.

Does anyone have any advice that could help increase the vividness and visual clarity of my dreams, or is it simply a matter of experience and practice? I tried shouting, "increase lucidity" or "lucidity x1000" and that didn't seem to help very much. I also tried spinning and that got rid of the white light, but I lost lucidity in the process.

I am happy to continue practicing and will try spinning again, I was just wondering if anyone else had experienced similar problems and could offer any helpful advice.