Thread: Dream blurs upon realization

Originally Posted by Lemendick

Hey, new here

I've been messing around with LD for a few years now. My dream recall is pretty good, although I haven't been writing down much lately. But it's good.

Now, where the problem stands... Even when I'm not practicing LDing at all, nor thinking about my dreams much, this just happens. I dream, and then realize that I'm dreaming. It doesn't come with big emotions or anything (it used to, but now it just happens every now and then). And well, it's supposed to be a sort of gateway into a proper MILD, but just at the moment when I realize I'm dreaming, all my vision blurs out and I can't even make it out where I'm standing that very moment... What's this about? And it's not an option to even spin around or anything, because I can't even feel my body.

This lasts for about a minute or a half and then I wake up, or on some occasions the dream just goes on, without me remembering that I'm dreaming anymore.

Anyone experienced something like that before? Any advice?

I tend to have dreams every now and then where, im like half blind in them. It's sort of like I have to turn my head to see something..like I dont have full vision. I don't know how to get around this. If you cant dream spin to fix it...im lost

I've had dreams blur before, and what I've always done is started to spin. Spinning should take you somewhere else completely, but it may decrease the blurriness. You should try it and let me know if it works!

Are you able to look at the ground, rub your hands together or shout something like 'clarity now!'?

If all else fails, you can try DEILD.

Originally Posted by Cacophony

Spinning should take you somewhere else completely

Well, you can actually spin keeping youself in the same dream. I've done it once or twice

I've had this happen to me recently, actually. It was under tad different circumstances but the dream blurred all the same.

Like what Hot Chocolate and some of the others said, if you can manage to do something that increases the clarity or sharpness of the dream then it should help, so long as it doesn't propel you out of the dream in the first place of course.

That used to happen to me, and it got worse for awhile. All the characters portrayed in my dreams would turn on me or try to kill me if I realized I was dreaming. I found that the mind doesn't let you in very easily. To overcome this I worked on becoming calm about finding out I was dreaming. If I was excited about becoming lucid my mind would sort of lock up and my senses would lose quality, it got 'blurry'. In contrast when I'm calm I can take control more in the dream and I hold onto it longer.

I know I have a slightly different experience, but all the same I hope It helps you fix your problem.