Thread: Too vivid dreams and cant sleep.

By manipulating your dreams you're in fact having a lucid dream (if you knows its a dream consciously). You can learn how to further control your dreams here on the forum. The fact that your dreams are so vivid is a good thing, and if you are scared that you don't know what is real and what is a dream do some Reality Checks.
Use the finger check if you like (seeing if one hand can go through the other), or try out these other effective tests:
Breathe - Can you hold your nose and mouth shut and breathe? If you can you're dreaming.
Jump - When you jump, do you float back down?
Read - Can you read a sentence twice without it changing?
Look - Is your vision clearer or blurrier than normal?
Hand - Can you push hand through a solid surface?
Time - Can you read a clock face or digital watch?
Fly - Can you will yourself to fly or hover above the ground?
Palms - Do the palms of your hands look normal close-up?
Mirrors - Does your reflection look normal in the mirror?
Math - Can you add up two numbers for a correct answer?

In dreams the laws of physics dont apply most of the time which is a good reality check as well.
Try theses and it will tell you if youre dreaming or not. Hope this helps.

To pick a nit, control and manipulation, even through conscious control, is not considered "lucidity." I've had non-lucids where I've exercised conscious flight control techniques, for example. Lucidity is simply knowing your're dreaming when you're dreaming.