Thread: New / Becoming Lucid

The intent of the RC regimen is to increase your chances of realizing your dreaming, which makes the dream a lucid dream. More time spent lucid in your dreams will give you more practice in exercising your will within them. So, I guess the short answer is, yes, exactly.

As for your last question, I'd check through the tutorials, and maybe browse the other Lucid Dreaming forums for suggestions on improving your chances of having good, vivid dreams. There are some mental techniques, some physical accommodations, and even some supplements people recommend.

NOTE: You dream every time you sleep. The general agreement is that REM sleep is dream sleep, and you have an average of four to six REM periods every night (depending on your sleep physiology, how long and how soundly you sleep, etc). The goal here is to take advantage of the dreams you're normally having anyway, and to remember them afterward.

If you haven't already read through the main DV website, do that. There's a lot of good general info to build your knowledge.

thanks, and yea that brings up another good point. My dreams tend to be a little blurry you could say, they lack detail. Is it possible to improve the vision and make it more reality like? And if so would it be more of a challenge becoming lucid since it seems more real?

As I understand it, you shouldn't be limited by the realism of a dream as far as attaining lucidity is involved. I mean, your blurry dreams probably seem real when you're in the dream, and you still don't normally question whether it's a dream or not (unless you're one of us, anyway). I don't think it's an issue of having more trouble becoming lucid, but still a matter of being in the habit of doing RCs a lot, or else just "knowing" you're dreaming.

Read around, there are some good articles and threads here about improving vividness and clarity in both lucid and non-lucid dreams. It might just be that your recall is fuzzy, not the dream itself, so improving that will improve the dream retroactively.

ahh never thought of it like that (the recall is fuzzy). allright thanks a million, ill do some forum browsin

Good sharp detail and realism is always the most satisfying, but it's possible to be completely lucid with very little detail. I once had a lucid dream where I was temporarily almost blind... I could only see very vague shapes in a monochrome reddish orange.

yea mine tend to be somewhat like that as well, i only realize until the morning though lol. now that i think about it.. like i dont even understand how i get from place to place alot of the time hahah