A lot of questions...

I have been waiting to be approved for a few days. That felt like a few years. I have been looking around this forum, and it seems really friendly and interesting :).
Anyway, I have a lot of questions to ask:

Is it normal that....

• When I dream, I'm never really in the dream: It feels like a copy of me that I'm watching. They never RC either. :(
• My dreams aren't vivid at all. No hearing, feeling, smelling, or taste. Just black and white 420p vision scaled down to 500x300px. Makes me want to RC less because I can just check if I can hear something. :(
• My dreams are super slowly paced. It feels like 30 minutes, but everything I did REALLY would have taken a minute or two (ex. coming home from school). :(

Is it?

• It feels like a more vivid dream would be easier to become lucid in. Is that true?
• It feels like a lucid dream would be more vivid. Is that true?
• I used to have horrible dream recall, but I started eating B6 foods, and now it's pretty good. Does B6 increase dream vividness? If so, I'll keep eating more B6 foods.

Okay, that was a mouthful. I'm finally here and ready to learn. :)

I'm 13 btw

:welcome: bsomerville!

Dreams contain so much variety, it's difficult to say what kind of dreams are normal. You can become lucid in any dream, so whether your dreams are normal or not isn't anything to worry about. Worrying about this will only be an unnecessary distraction for you in your goal to become lucid.

You could do a reality check when your vision becomes blurry and black and white. That's a perfectly valid dream sign. Working with the non-lucid dreams you're already having is a lot easier than trying to change them to suit your preferences. Again, you can become lucid in any dream.

A vivid dream is easier to become lucid in because you in a vivid dream you tend to have better awareness. Better awareness gives you more chances to recognize something in the dream which makes the concept of dreaming come across your mind. However, this doesn't improve your odds of the individual chances you have so to speak. It tends to be more difficult to remember you're dreaming during the dream than to attain sensory awareness during the dream.

A lucid dream is a just like any other dream except for the fact you know you're dreaming. That means lucid dreams can be as blurry or vivid as non-lucid dreams.

From what I read about vitamin B6 increasing vividness, I believe it does. I'm not too big on lucid aids though, so I'm not experienced in this area.

Just be more observant of what is going on while you're sleeping and your sensory awareness should improve.

Remember, there's two parts of dream recall: your awareness during the dream and your recalling of said awareness after the dream. Your awareness during the dream is important for becoming lucid during the dream and your recall of said awareness is important for recalling your attempt at lucidity. Both are important, but your awareness during the dream is more important.

Keep in mind, in order to become lucid, not only do you have to be aware of the dream itself, but you also have to remember it is a dream. Awareness is not everything, it's only half the battle.

When you do a reality check during the day, keep in mind that you're rehearsing for when you're dreaming. Something in the dream is going to trigger you to do a reality check, so during the day your trigger should be the same as the dream sign you're trying to catch during the dream. Remember, you're rehearsing! If your trigger doesn't occur during the day, that's okay! You could also imagine your dream sign occurring and doing a reality check.

Woah, thanks!

It's hard to explain my dreams, but I'm not in the dream (really weird). It's a fake copy of me (it feels like an old version of me) that hasn't started trying to lucid dream yet and doesn't RC... Should I just keep RCing IRL so that might eventually carry over into dreams?

Also...

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Just be more observant of what is going on while you're sleeping and your sensory awareness should improve.

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Any tips on that one?


Thanks dolphin
:)

If nothing makes you RC, you won't RC. Something always makes you RC. I call that something the trigger for the RC.

The trick for making the habit of RCing in waking life carry over into your dreams is to have the same trigger for your RC habit in waking life to occur in your dreams. In other words, the exact something that makes you RC in waking life has to be present in the dream for the habit to carry over.

For example, I have dreams of waking up. So in waking life, I make the trigger for my RC to be the experience of waking up. That way, when I have the same experience in my dreams, I RC.

A common mistake is to make the trigger for the RC too vague or otherwise something that doesn't normally occur in your dreams. For example, if your trigger for RCing was whenever you have nothing else to do, you could be really focused and aware during your dreams but never have the RC habit carry over because the trigger from waking life wouldn't be present. Doing 100 RCs during the day would only reinforce the trigger that doesn't normally occur in your dreams.

To be more observant of what's going on while you're sleeping, just pay attention. I don't know how else to put it. Don't stress yourself though, otherwise you'll be paying attention to the stress rather than what's happening around you.

Thanks, dolphin. I'll try to keep recording in my DJ to see what happens often my dreams (to use as a trigger), and just try to at least remember my dreams for now. I'm going to try to have a WILD tonight, and I'll see how that works out. Anyway, thanks for all the help. :)