Thread: How vivid do your lucid dreams get?

I do not lucid dream too often, so I always have a goal in mind as I drift off to sleep in case I become lucid. One of those goals was to "do nothing." I read about it in a thread somewhere here on the DV forum. Upon becoming lucid, my first instinct is usually to go nuts with the ability to do anything, but the realism wasn't always so vivid. The author of that thread suggested that, once lucid, just sitting and feeling the ground or walls will ground you more firmly in the dream and increase its realism. I can now vouch for the do nothing technique. Do it, it totally works.

Last week I became lucid and the dream started to fade right away. So I remembered the do nothing technique. I approached a wall and felt it. I could feel the grooves and temperature and imperfections in the paint. The landscape outside the window was also remarkably detailed and its perspective settled into something normal once I was grounded. Things started to get so real that I almost doubted that I was dreaming! The realism carried on throughout the dream and later I noted a television in the house I was in. It was playing nonexistent but otherwise normal commercials and shows... so yeah. I've had other vivid lucid dreams, but none quite at that level. You can to, but I guess you kind of have to work for it.

Thats a really interesting idea APSJ, I must try that, in relation to your question my lucids generally start out as blurry as regular dreams but to increase their vividness I give a command like "increase lucidity now" basically expecting the dream to become more vivid generally makes it more vivid . If you want to get a quick fix I believe there is a drug you can get from the pharmacy, Choline something that increases vividness and dream recall, anyway good luck .

Mine aren't usually too vivid I often feel quite detached from them.

My lucid dreams have always disapointed me. I look at my hands or the grass or anything to try to "ground" myself, but that never works as my lucids turn hazy and normal dream-like. I suppose I''ll try the do nothing technique as well

When they start, they are really unstable and dark. I usually stay in my room stabilizing, adding some light and I usually aim to make them as real as real life. Sometimes they even look more real, it's hard to explain, but I'm sure some people here know what I mean