Are clearer dreams more likely to lead to lucidity?

[FaatFaat]

Are clearer dreams more likely to lead to lucidity?

[Leo Volont]

Originally posted by FaatFaat Are clearer dreams more likely to lead to lucidity? The words "clarity" and "lucidity" are almost identical in meaning. Perhaps the question should have been, "are vivid dreams more likely to lead to lucidity?" And, yes, they are. You see, Lucidity depends in a larege extent on the simple conscious energy which fuels the intensity of the perseptions, and which causes a deeper engraving into the memory. When that Energy is sufficiently strong then Lucidity often enough simply rises to the surface of one's awareness, with none of the tricks of reality checks and so forth. Inversely, when that Energy is not so present and one does manage to make one of the gimmick techniques work to bring on a weak lucidity, then it is difficult to hold the lucidity. So, yes, a certain intensity and vividness is essential, because without such vivacity, any Lucid Dream is likely to be mediocre anyway.

[irishcream]

so what's my problem then? I had a really vivid dream last night, but had no lucidity whatsoever! I'm seeing dreamsigns night after night, my brain is registering that something is amiss, but i'm continually failing to reach lucidity, as my brain registers that something isn't right, and then carries on! so how do i break this out? I know i can do it, i've done it in the past. But before, its just happened, and now i want a conscious thing that says, 'you know you are dreaming, so do something about it!'

[Leo Volont]

Originally posted by irishcream so what's my problem then? I had a really vivid dream last night, but had no lucidity whatsoever! I'm seeing dreamsigns night after night, my brain is registering that something is amiss, but i'm continually failing to reach lucidity, as my brain registers that something isn't right, and then carries on! so how do i break this out? I know i can do it, i've done it in the past. But before, its just happened, and now i want a conscious thing that says, 'you know you are dreaming, so do something about it!' Are you unhappy with your Dream Content, as it is? Ordinarily "really vivid" dreams are important and meaningful, and if so, what could Lucidity possibly add? .... Well, yes, if one made some idiotic decision that would have more informed had one been Lucid, I could see the advantages in being Lucid; but if one behaved and responded to everything in an appropriate manner, I can hardly see what the concern is. I think that the Higher Mind may have its own agenda sometimes. The Higher Mind may have something of a Checklist -- a certain number of Dream you must go through, and after you have done your quota of mandatory dreams, then you can have a few in which you can be lucid and do whatever optional independent studies you had been planning all along. I can understand the need to be lucid sometimes... I keep a Lucid Dream Checklist -- a To Do List for the next time I go Lucid. But I still have so many ordinary dreams that come with messages and life lessons, that I can honestly see that my Higher Mind has a point in continuing to send these ordinary dreams. Maybe they will stop when I don't need them anymore, but when will that be, that the Higher Mind has no comment to make upon our lives and how we live them?

[irishcream]

i'm not discontent, and i'm sure i must be on my way, being as i'm seeing so many 'dreamsigns' i just want to have a lucid dream, cos there's something i'm trying to do!

[Leo Volont]

Originally posted by irishcream i'm not discontent, and i'm sure i must be on my way, being as i'm seeing so many 'dreamsigns' i just want to have a lucid dream, cos there's something i'm trying to do! Sometimes I wonder whether the Higher Mind may sometimes object to items we have on our Lucid Dream Checklist, as though the Higher Mind simply does not want to cooperate with some ideas and directions we would wish to take. So your Higher Mind may be engaged in a little bit of 'foot dragging'. The other possibitlity is that it is taking awhile for your Higher Mind to work out a complete Dream Scenario. Remember that a Good Lucid Dream, as a complete pre-planned package, which the Higher Mind must produce, needs to consist of not only one complete Story Line, but must provide for all of the foreseeable choices you could make -- if you do this, then that will happen, but if you do that, then this will happen... that type of thing. so, depending on when you got your idea, you Higher Mind might still be going through the Creative and Production processes.

[irishcream]

yeah, you could be right...maybe it's just going to take a little more time. The dream i have planned is pretty involved... and even last nights dreams were vivid, so i should have no problem when the time comes. Perhaps it's like you say, and my mind is just preparing for it. I'll keep you updated!