Questions regarding intensity of lucid dreams

**frucade** · 07-09-2014 10:24 AM

Hello Community,

I am learning how to lucid dream now and I'm pretty serious about it. I am currently reading Stephen La Berges Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. It is crucual to gain a good dream recall to remember lucid dreams. It is recommended to set an alarm clock, because you will awake directly after a REM phase and it is more likely for you to remember the dream.
My Question now is, is this technique just for the beginning, so I will gain a good dream recall faster , or is this technique also supposed to be used when I'm already good ad recalling dreams?
Also I've read, that you forget your first dreams immediately after the first REM phase, when the next phase is already in line. How can you remember lucid dreams if you have achieved them by WILD in the evening when you're going to bed, because aren't they erased as soon as they are over?

My main question is now, how intense will i remember lucid dreams? I had one lucid dream I can remember, and it was great, but I remember it just like i remember a normal dream. I ask this question, because I heard in a video, that lucid dreams are so vivid and intense, that you remember them as if you had experienced the content of the dream just a few days ago.
I remember the lucid dream I had so far (the only one) like any other "normal" dream ..

I hope you can help me with these questions (and excuse my grammatical mistakes, englisch is not my native language)
Thank you

frucade

**DreamyBear** · 07-09-2014 12:30 PM

Well Lucid dreams does not need to be super vivid just becase it's a lucid dream. I've had normal dreams that was way more vivid than my lucid one's. But advice to you if you want vivid dreams is this. Practice being aware during your waking life. Work up your ability to just see and feel things without comment them in your mind all the time as 99.99% of people do for the most time(including me).

This practice IS meditation, so you dont need to be sitting on the ground and try to ignore everything as many think is meditation. Just try to live your daily life with your senses, and of cource think WHEN you need to think.

Another thing you could try is to go to bed before you feel that your'e super tired. So try to go to bed maybe an hour earlier than you normally do. Well that's pretty much it, when it comes to pratice. This is what makes my dreams a LOT more vivid atleast. Good luck!