lucid dreams that aren't vivid

hello everyone,

this is my first post so be gentle :wink:

I have recently been trying to lucid dream for about the past month i'd say, and so far i have only had two lucid experiences :( but they were both fantastic and i'm sure all of you can relate to how great that first lucid dream feels! Anyways, basically with my lucid dreams (and non-lucid dreams) I find that they don't feel very realistic. I have read that lucid dreams are supposed to be very lifelike and vivid and it seems that only one has felt 'vivid' and the rest are usually pretty hazy. I have been using the MILD technique, keep a dream journal (with recall of 1-2 dreams per night), do reality tests throughout the day and have a glass of warm milk 1hr before bed. To be honest it hasn't been working that well which is a shame.

I'm getting a little impatient it feels like a huge effort with little results, i realise that this isn't the right attitude and patience is the key but i was kinda expecting more lucid dreams in one month than just two! Can I please get some advice on how to make my dreams feel more vivid and how to increase the frequency of having lucid dreams.

thank u :-P

Welcome jakub!

I have had 2 lucid experiance also. In my First one My dream was very vivid, and to achive this I shouted "Increase lucidity now" It worked and thats how you do it. But my lucidity wasn't stable so it didn't last long. By the time I had gasped from the wonder I was awake. The second one wasn't very vivid and I woke up and couldn't do I thing about it.

There are two other was to make it non-blury. The First is to stare at you hand the second it to spin around On your axis till the dream stablizes. The more experianced people here might know other tech. Other then that you might want to check the tutorials.

You might want to try a WILD technique... I am really not that experienced, I'm just learning myself. But from what I've heard, WILDs are often quite a bit more vivid.

[Edit: Here's the tutorial by the way.]

Take it easy,
Dylan

hey thanks for the help guys. I have read up on spinning in your dream before but I thought that was to clear the dreamscape so u can create your own imagery, start with a blank canvas? As for the WILD technique hmm... with my 2nd lucid dream which happened this morning i woke up at around 8:00am had some breakfast and watched some telly then after an hour did some reality checks and went back to bed. I found this really helped to induce a lucid dream and maybe similar to the WILD method.

Im wondering if there are some more specific ways to make dreams more vivid

once again thanks... any other suggestions?

Well, there are certain drugs and things that people say make dreams much more vivid, but that's not really necessary. In terms of a vivid LD< I think that WILDs are naturally mroe vivid, as you're going straight into the dream with a much more 'conscious' mind, rather than a 'subdued' one...

As for all dreams, I've found that my dreams seem to be getting more vivid, or I'm just remembering them better. I think that getting into the habit of trying to remember your dreams will, ultimately, increase the vividness of them. Getting into the right frame of mind for having vivid dreams thats eem realistic and where you seem to make your own decisions. I think that remembering dreams and becoming more accustomed to them is a way to increase the vividness.

Very simple and effective way.....If you think of it...

Just yell:

VIVIDNESS INCREASE

I WANT CLARITY

BE VIVID

Anything along those lines, but you have to really mean it. "Clarity now" is perhaps the most effective saying to make your dreams really clear.

I just learned a technique that keeps you from waking up, but it also greatly increases the vividness of a dream
When you feel you are about to wake up you open yoour eyes. Not your real life eyes, but your dream eyes.
Many times it will induce a false awakening or bring you to a new area, but it works well for vividness and making the dream stable.

If you want overall more vivid dreams you could try some melatonin. I haven't tried it but I hear it works well.

I tried the "CLARITY NOW" thing and it worked pretty well, but for some reason it didn't work last night.

I hope I covered it all...




Conclusion

This is tutorial that is mainly some guidelines for increasing your dream realism. You don't have to follow it exactly though. Try to find ways that work for you. Hopefully you found this tutorial quite beneficial and helpful for you.

Hi man this is my first time posting a comment. I just so happen to have been doing this for a number of years and without sounding vain I do know a thing or two about it. the best method for increasing vividness of a lucid dream is to become immersed in it. Focus more on the smell of things and what you can hear, taste and the feel of the nearest object. These things cause your brain to get more into the dream and believe its more real. so things like clap and listen to the sound. Just take a deep breath in through your nose and see what you can smell. you'll find colour and life start to pump into the dream and you can do a lot more things. remember the key to doing something is to expect it to be done.
Thx Trav.

I completely agree with Raylin. i think being able to recall dreams will help with the vividness of the lucid dream. My dreams used to be reasonably vivid, but when i got into lucid dreaming for some reason my dreams are now all so vivid, sometimes in the day i'll wonder if what i dreamed actually happened in real life. And 3 of the lucid dreams i had recently were all amazingly real, it was madness. The mind really is something else. Also, although i've heard a lot about the spinning technique and rubbing hands for clarity and stabilizing the dream, it didnt work for me, it actually made my lucid dream fade away and i woke up :(