Thread: How would you define a vivid dream?

Vividness for me is not only an attribute of the visual. In fact, visual memory, while important, is secondary to awareness/personal-presence vividness. How much do I feel like *I* am *there* in entirety, living and feeling the experience like it's a waking experience? A vivid dream for me is one where the memory of the event has no tangible difference in "feeling" compared to waking memories. Where I wake up and think "hold on, you mean *that* was a *dream*!?" Usually high awareness/presence comes with excellent visual memory, but it's not guaranteed.

To paraphrase The Matrix:

[Having a vivid dream] is just like being in love. No one can tell you you're in love, you just know it. Through and through. Balls to bones.