it is a continuum (sp).
personally i grade lucids on a three point scale: low. medium. and high (or Vivid). though one could use ten or even a hundred.
IMO, vividness is an inseparable element in all lucids. a neccessary ingredient in some measure.
in order for one's mind to real-ize that it is dreaming, it must instill a sense of vividness (or real-ness one could say) into the surrounding environment, yet still remember it is dream.
of the fair number of lucids that i've had, the majority are low. little more than murky wandering with intermittent and brief moments where i semi-fully remember it is all a dream.
in these low-grade lucids i am perceptive and aware within what i am experiencing as "the most real" moment. only vaguely however, like a dispersed cloud of consciousness (vividity) misting over the dreamscape and contacting only enough surface for dim realizations. an incomplete puzzle if you will, but with subtler pieces which operate more as interlacing fields/states of mind than a simple puzzle.
there have only been a handful of high, Vivid lucids, in which the environment was verging on hyper-real, and my powers of synthesis, focus, and clarity of thought were intact and engaged.
i will never forget these, as they are the main reward for practicing lucid dreaming. extremely fascinating and psychedelic. real paint on real walls with real people...except a different kind of real.
reality is the result of synthesis. of projecting a web of relation from some focal point which does the experiencing.
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one can be lucid in an imageless void (as i've experienced a few times, likely in a state of sleep paralysis) where the normal concepts of space (dimension), time, and even Self (the central synthesizer) are stripped bare and even cease to exist in the usual waking-life sense. yet my mind is still aware that it is dreaming (or creating reality at that immediate moment. even though it could never state that verbally, or shape tangible thoughts.
after one such experience in this imageless, feelingless, noiseless vaccum, a more normal dream began to develop and greater numbers of the vibrational fields which compose our waking reality were available for projection.
those fields (or puzzle pieces) were then gradually available for instillation into what the moment before was a dimension-less void.
that particular night i awoke after a very brief, medium-vivid lucid. but if every single field of vibration, and all their natural relationships with each other had become available, it would have simultaneously increased the Vividness to High levels. where colours can be concentrated and vibrant even more than is usual. where one's mind is unified in a focused state capable of very precise synthesis.
a continuum of elements arranged to create consciousness...a spectrum of spectral fields.
from:
Void to Vivid.
Vapour to Water.
Wave to Particle.
Being to Self.
but i maintain that these metaphorical points, or places, or immediate moments, or states of mind...however one words it....and all points in-between, have some sense of vividness.
from Black Hole to a seemingingly Infinite Sphere saturated in pure colours and chromatic fields and acoustic sound vibrations and odours and gravity.
yet all of it is simply suchness. and vividness is inseparable from suchness.
Vivid:
graphic: evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description"
having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience; "a vivid recollection"
bright: having striking color; "bright dress"; "brilliant tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage"
intense: (of color) having the highest saturation; "vivid green"; "intense blue"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
clarity and freshness. fresh implies life (like the "lifelike images within the mind" in the first definition). life is a continual process. a seamless interplay of visible and invisible forces.
Immediate: contiguous: very close or connected in space or time; "contiguous events"; "immediate contact"; "the immediate vicinity"; "the immediate past"
having no intervening medium; "an immediate influence"
immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect; "the immediate result"; "the immediate cause of the trouble"
of the present time and place; "the immediate revisions"
performed with little or no delay; "an immediate reply to my letter"; "prompt obedience"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
to separate vividness, or immediacy, or clarity of sight from ANY experience seems impossible.
the only intervening medium between moment to moment is Self. and the feeling of being alive as an individual, indivisible entity (one can't live without their heart or liver or stomach) is largely based on memory. of the records of past experiences.
and experience is the imediate revisions which relate a human being to any reality, without fundamentally changing that reality.
computer ape constantly refreshing It-Self.
*laughs* mary jane made me say it.
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