This is my number 1 problem whenever I lucid dream: things are too dark.
Has anybody experienced this, and any tips on overcoming it? Read below if you want details.
(I tend to write a lot of details, haha)
I haven't been trying that much recently to have lucid dreams, but on the occasions that I DO actually achieve it (if I think of trying a WILD or something after waking up too early), I have this problem.
Frequently, my lucid dreams start in my house. I often have false awakening too that are the start of my lucidity, and I wake up in my bed while dreaming. So of course, I want to get to somewhere cool. So I go outside.
90% of the time when I go outside, it's dark out. This just annoys me. I want to be able to to see and enjoy what's going on. And when it's dark out, I'm much more likely to wake up, because the darkness of night sometimes fades to the darkness of a fading dream.
Generally, my lucid dreams don't become stable until it's light out. And that's a hard thing to accomplish. Sometimes I waste lots of the precious time of the lucid dream trying to make it magically turn from day to night.
I've tried a lot of techniques, such as shutting the door to the outside, picturing that it's day out, and then opening it, which sometimes works, but it's still very difficult. It might have to do with belief that it will happen?
Something funny happened last night/this morning actually, haha. In a semi-LD, I had just turned on a light in a room, and it seemed to work fine. A minute later, in another room, it was dark, and I thought, Wait a minute, lights usually don't work well in dreams! And just like that, light switches failed me.
My posts always seem to get really long on this sight. So I'll stop now, has anybody else experienced or overcome this? Thanks. :D
