Thread: Weird Atmosphere

Congratulations on your streak! I recently had a streak just like this, and I encountered the same strange atmosphere. It felt like even though I was lucid a lot, my lucids seemed to feel "fake" or distant.

I remedied this by reading this amazing tutorial on Dream Clarity. It talks about techniques on how to stabilize your dream while lucid, and how to stay anchored in a realistic atmosphere.

The three main points are:

-Hands
-Verbal
-Anchor

And I repeat those three things throughout the day.

Hands: When you become lucid, stare at your hands and examine the detail. Your hands will go from blurry, to perfectly detailed, and the rest of your dream will follow suit.

Verbal: While you are looking at your hands, and right afterwords, tell yourself outloud or in your head things like; "Gain clarity NOW!", "more clarity!", "things are now clear!", you get the idea. Your brain will listen, and the dream image will become even sharper.

Anchor: This is the tricky business of anchoring yourself to your dream. Instead of saying "I am now anchored", you have to FEEL it. You have to come up with your own way of anchoring your spirit and mind in the dreamworld, which prevents random scene changes, False Awakenings, and "void walks".


Something that I do, that isn't mentioned in the tutorial much, is scene examination. After looking at my hands, I verbally clarify, and then during the verbal step I walk up to the nearest object or scenery and begin to examine it. Stare, touch, taste. This will ground you so much in your world that it will be almost indistinguishable from real life!

So adding this:

-Hands
-Verbal
-Scene
-Anchor

Read the tutorial and follow my advice, and report back! The first time I did this, I finally understood the magic that is lucid dreaming. My dream world was crisp and real, events were rational and easy to follow, and I had great control and length.

`Raven

After my streak ended it hasn't been happening lately, and I actually have done one of those before. I always stare at my hand for detail, but there's usually a lot more lines. It's kind of weird.