Thread: All of my lucid dreams are "blurry", "washed out", and not a bit vivid/realistic at all.

You could try a MILD, but with that you'll have to be specific. I would go on in a long explanation, but I'll make it short for you. Sorta.

Generally, people will say "I will have a lucid dream tonight" and repeat it a few times before going to sleep. Then they go with the conviction that they will lucid dream, and stop thinking about it, go to sleep, and wait for results.

Now, in your subconscious' perspective, it's going to get confused because you're giving it something vague. How would it be able to choose when "tonight" exactly is? Try to make a specific mantra that's going to make it less of a pain for your subconscious to work around with.

Examples:

" In XXX amount of time (hours, minutes, etc.), I will realize that I'm dreaming."

OR

"In XXX amount of time (hours, minutes, etc.), I am going to realize that I'm dreaming." <--- These makes things practical for your subconscious to give you what you want, but the latter makes it that you have been a lucid dreamer all your life, and it's natural to you.

Imagine if you said "At XX amount of time (PM/AM amount of hours), I will lucid dream."

That might sound just fine to you, but to your subconscious, you might have a non-lucid dream at that time. You see the difference between this and the first two options you could go for? You're making things easier for your subconscious (not making it cram something difficult to do), and giving you what you want.

"I will realize that I'm dreaming," or "I am going to realize I'm dreaming," (with the time extension before this of course) seems something reasonable.

Or, (example), "At 5 AM tomorrow, I will realize that I'm dreaming." OR, "At 5 AM tomorrow, I am going to realize that I'm dreaming."


So in a nutshell for that question, if you want to do a MILD, try it out for a few weeks, and make a meaningful and practical mantra that involves something YOU can do, rather than something that would make things hard on your subconscious. Be specific and reasonable in your mantras.

And also, don't say the mantra too much as you're going to sleep, you want the conviction clear to your subconscious. Say it a few times, believe in it (making it meaningful), and sleep with the assurance your subconscious will do it for you. (Autosuggestion).

So some example mantras (but not the only ones you can use):

"In (so and so amount of hours), I will realize that I'm dreaming."
"In (so and so amount of hours), I am going to realize that I'm dreaming."

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To answer your CrazyInsane Tutorial dilemma, yeah, part of the guide's challenge for some people is finding the right alarm, and the right volume to set it in.

Here's something I did that actually worked when I was trying that method for a while,

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  1. Find the alarm you feel would be loud enough to wake you up.
  2. Then try to listen to it at certain intervals throughout the day, so your mind gets accustomed to the sound.
  3. Optional (like I stated with the MILD explanation), You can set a mantra throughout the day where you say (i.e), "When the alarm rings at 5 AM tomorrow, I will keep my eyes closed, stay still, and realize that I'm dreaming."
  
  

Here are some sample alarms that I personally used:

CrazyInsane Sample Alarm Sounds by King Wugguls on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free (don't mind the kingwugguls name)

There's a 4 second alarm, 7 second alarm, and 14 second alarm.

• If you think you're a heavy sleeper, use the 7 or 14 second alarm.
• If you think you're a light sleeper, use the 4 second alarm.
• If you find that all three don't work, change the time accordingly. And don't forget, you have the option of the Mantra that could be a useful supplement in easing tension on yourself.

Another thing that I noticed when people perfected waking up with their eyes closed, staying still, etc., the moment you start realizing that you're awake with your eyes closed, and see nothing happening, just a black void or "back of your eyes" show,

Visual something....anything. I had a certain WILD attempt where I was aware that I'm awake, and saw an "n_n" emoticon, and focused on it for a while, and before I knew it, I'm warped into a dream scene, became lucid, still did a RC, and had a decent short lucid.

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Now, if you're concerned that you might have too loud of an alarm when attempting a possible solution to your dilemma with the CrazyInsane tutorial, you can try this (I'm trying to perfect this):

1. (This is based from Beedkin's AP/OBE Induction Guide), but the mechanisms can be applied for lucid dreaming as well
2. If you plan to sleep before Midnight (11PM being the limit)Set an alarm, that will make a LOOP, in 1 hour to 90 minutes time. So when you wake up after an hour to 90 minutes (you have to determine how long it takes for you to fall alseep and change accordingly), stay up for an HOUR at least to 2 hours at MOST.
3. When you stay up for 1-2 hours (try to stay within that range), go to sleep
4. Optional (Set a mantra): "The moment I fall asleep, I am going to realize that I'm dreaming."
5. Ignore any audtiorty hallucinations, or HI's, they're natural, and they won't do any kind of damage to you. Find something you can concentrate on passively. It sounds contradicting, but like Beedkin stated,
   
   
   You may say that’s two opposites, but keep in mind that you do this when playing a video game or when engaged in sport.... you don’t think about what you are doing but you are totally absorbed in the activity. This is part of the mindset of the state.
6. In theory: You have a lucid dream, or in a deeper aspect, other forms of projection (but I won't state that here, since that would be beyond dreaming terms)
   
   Beedkin's method takes advantage of pre-napping/pre-sleeping, (1 hour to 90 minutes), so that when you wake up, you'll know your body is relaxed (you'll notice it's hard to get up, but make sure you DO get out of your bed).
   
   Here's the actual guide, I sorta condensed it for you.
   
   http://www.dreamviews.com/f19/fantas...-method-98062/

EDIT:

In Step 2 of the condensed version of how I viewed Beedkin's guide, if you plan to sleep AFTER midnight (example 1AM), sleep until 2AM-2:30AM) wake up, and this time stay up for 30 minutes instead, and go with rest of the steps.

I know it sounds like a lot of information, but trust me, read through it, take your time reading it. If you want results, you have to learn the meaning behind each method.

It will be worth the extra 5-10 minutes reading this, so that the general overview I gave you will make sense if you choose to read Beedkin's method.

I'm honestly still trying to perfect this method, but it's optional. And like anything I've stated here, these aren't the only ways you can become lucid and have vivid dreams, there are many, don't take what I say to absolute law.

Good luck, and happy lucids.