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Is dreaming vividly a sign that you will soon experience lucid dreams? I've recently been having more and more vivid dreams, and I've been having moderate success using WILD (I've been geting to the "paralylized" stage every time now!) and was just wondering if it was a precursor.
More vivid dreams would suggest you're remembering them alot better, which is a good sign that lucidity is to come.
Yep - it means better recall, and better state of your dreams.
Thats step one towards lucid dreaming
Step 2 = awareness and lucidity
You need to make sure you understand dreamsigns, reality checks etc etc (or some other dream induced method)
Unless you're going for wake induced - which it doesnt sound like
The problem that increased awareness and vividity of dreams brings with it though, is it's indistinguishibility from normal life. Often, when dreams get highly intense, they seem to mimic true life more closely. So, when you begin to have more vivid dreams, practice reality checks more frequently and make the reality checks more intense and complicated than before. When your mind puts enough thought into making a dream vivid, it often corrects small errors that it would make otherwise. For example, in a low-complexity dream, a clock reality check will often work, because your mind won't fix an error in the time (too many digits, three hours passing in a second or so, etc), but in a higher vividity dream, these things may not be as obvious.
Hell yes, I can testify to this!
I often go between sleep and waking like in spans of 10 minutes, and I couldn't tell which one was real. It's cool, to think this world may not be real, either.
Some ppl can lucid dreaming really well, but not with clear vision.
I have a tendency for very vivid dreams, but not many lucids. I could remember them like it were yesterday. To each his own.