Hey, new here... got a question already ^_^

**Mbmoses** · 06-01-2004 08:52 AM

Ok, I'm having a problem with becoming lucid and controlling my dreams. my dreams don't seem at all like actual life, like it is just like I'm watching myself do stuff on a tv or something. so the times in which I am lucid it's like ok what now? I've had minimal experience with actually controlling my dreams but for what I have had I think I can tell that it is still just like I'm watching the dream on tv or something. so at best it's like I can control a show I'm watching, but not like I'm actually there and controlling stuff around me. so it's like I'm lucid but not, since I can't make any use out of it, and in some way still not aware that it's all a dream, just like ok I'm watching this stuff that's not real and I know that but that's as far as I can get. I also have a similiar problem with my dreams not being anywhere near vivid enough. I'm fear that no matter how good I get at controlling the dreams it just won't be realistic enough for me to care. any advice?

**Aphius** · 06-02-2004 12:47 AM

Welcome to the forum Mbmoses!

The problem with vividness might be linked to how good your recall is... Do you keep a dream journal?

**Umbrasquall** · 06-02-2004 02:48 AM

Good point Aphius. Dream recall helps with vividity.

Welcome to the forums!

**Mbmoses** · 06-02-2004 05:11 AM

I keep forgetting too... I will try and remember tonight... we'll see if it helps... but actually my dream recall is usually pretty ok, I can remember at least one dream a night usually.

**Aphius** · 06-02-2004 07:48 AM

Thats good, but for really good results its good if you can remember about 3...

**dest** · 06-02-2004 09:58 AM

If i sleep all night and get up in the morning, i usually remember only 1 dream, but if i drink some water before sleeping, i wake up, write down my first dream, then go to bathroom, then fall asleep, when i wake up i write down my second dream, and today i even remembered one small fragment from my third dream, but its only small fragment. 'i hit reset on my computer when brother was playing game on it'

**Truthbearer** · 06-03-2004 04:01 AM

Dream journal could probably help plenty in that situation or you could also try consuming melatonin to make your dreams more vivid. I have heard that people that have 3 person dreams, have a bit more difficulty in becoming lucid, so you might want to try extra hard

**Lowercase Society** · 06-03-2004 04:56 PM

WELCOME to dreamviews!

I love your avatar

**Truthbearer** · 06-03-2004 07:06 PM

If I am not mistaken that avatar is from "Abre los Ojos" (the original spanish version of which "Vanilla Sky" is merely a cheap copy of..it doesn't look like the mask from VS)

**Mbmoses** · 06-07-2004 05:27 AM

it actually is from vanilla sky. Which i love very much despite it not being the original.

from what I hear the original has better more moving peformances but lacks the visuals that vanilla sky has. And the music is diff and all those reason is why I love Vanilla Sky so much. I still really wanna see the original too though... btw, fight club is another one of my favorite movies.