Thread: Maybe a stupid question but...

There's no such thing as stupid questions.

As for an answer, the dream can easily become as vivid as waking life and possibly even more so. Colors can become brighter, senses can grow stronger and everything can just become more life-like than actual waking life. There are varying levels of vividity as well as lucidity, however. The dream you described sounded like it had a lower level of lucidity which can cause for your decisions to become almost automatic, like you can't control them, even though you know you're in a dream. The level of lucidity will grow with practice and after a few you should be able to completely control your dreams with some ease.

Vividity seems to be mostly random to me, however, especially when talking about non-lucid dreams. Some say you can increase vividity during lucids by saying "increase vividity" or something similar, which seems highly possible though I've never done it, myself. Also, normal dreams are usually remembered in fragments and you don't remember very specific details such as a certain shirt color, feel of an object, etc. Lucid dreams are generally more easily rememberd and feel more like an actual memory, and not just a little tidbit of information.

Hope this helped

That's not a silly question!

The only difference between a regular dream and a lucid one is that you're aware. You have control over your actions. Think of it as doing what you're doing right now, except the scenery could shift around or be a little fuzzy, and you're not completely conscious - more like you're mentally fatigued so you aren't as careful about decision making and stuff. You might not care about what you look like, because you'll be more fascinated about doing things like flying.

A lucid dream can go very vivid; detail can become incredible. At first, your lucids will probably be less vivid as you get used to stabilizing them and focusing on the dream scenery to encourage detail formation. They can be freakishly real, but there will always be something slightly "off" about them, whether you already know it in the dream or think it's super-real, then only notice it was weird after waking up. You see from your eyes like you're reading this post right now, but you may also see yourself in third-person if you want to do so - anything is possible in a lucid dream, through expectations and visualizing what you want to see.

It's certainly you that makes the decisions, and it's you who moves around and does everything. It's like how you do things in real life. If you aren't too lucid, you might act a little lethargic and not care too much that you're dreaming, and say something like "oh, is this a dream?" then walk off. But if you're more lucid, you might go "oh my gosh, I'm dreaming" and freak out. The sudden epiphany that happens to most people when they become lucid is probably the time you're most likely to wake up. It's important to make sure you remain calm because if you get too excited or think of yourself lying in bed, you may wake up. This usually only happens the first couple times, but it might not happen at all. I've personally never woken up from excitement, so don't worry too much about it. As you explore the spectrum of lucidity and have a lower-level lucid, and a higher-level one, you'll start to know how awareness in dreams works.

You can decide what to do, be it simply walking around or trying out special abilities. And you can recall memories from waking life, but don't rack your brain trying to remember - you don't have forever in the dream!

The only thing that might affect how vivid, detailed or memorable your lucids are is your dream recall. You should make sure you can remember a dream per night, because lucids can be forgotten just like regular dreams. The more lucid you are, the more memorable the dream can be, but I've almost completely forgotten some of the dreams where I was the most aware.

Well those were two rather large answers, and very good ones!
I'll put it short, with time dreams can become more vivid, or you can conicously attempt to increase the quality of dreams (try shouting clarify out in a dream.)
Hope this helped

I would like to add that you should make sure you're fully stabalized, sometimes you can have too much vividness and lose lucidity.