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So I understand the idea of it and of course want to achieve it, but at the moment during a regular dream when you know your dreaming, what happens to the dreamscape itself? Everyone says lucid dreams are the most vivid and like waking life. Does a wave of high definition flow across the dream or is it an abrupt change in vividness? Basically what happens at the exact moment of achieving lucidity?
For me, the dream doesn't get more vivid until I stabilize, but at the moment of lucidity, you are becoming conscious, aware. So when you realize you're dreaming, you take in a lot more. In other words, the dream doesn't change, just how much you are paying attention.
From my experiences, it really just depends on the dream and/or how you become lucid. Most of the time it happens exactly as Draco77100 explains it. A couple of times when I have become lucid a wave of energy blasts from me and the sudden lucidity causes an earthquake. Once, I was walking down a busy sidewalk and people kept bumping into me, each time giving me another boost of lucidity. The last person who bumped into me snapped me into a fully aware state giving the dream the vividness of waking life.
For me, the moment I become lucid, the dream turns HD or something. The colors "shift" into more vibrant colors (like wearing glasses) and the sounds are clearer. I rarely stabilize anymore, so it's quite vivid as it is. But yes I agree with Draco, it may be beause when you get lucid you pay more attention, so everything looks and feels better than in the nonlucid where you blindly walk around following a storyline.
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