Hi, I'm new, and I've already begun an annoying rant

**widefinopen** · 09-27-2007 06:39 AM

I am only 15 and I have had several lucid dreams before, despite having only discovered what they were today. I just experienced a brief lucid dream last night (about 20 seconds), and this is what prompted me to look up what these dreams were.
However, when I read some of the accounts of your experiences, it seemed that you guys are experiencing much higher quality dreams than I have been. Some of your dreams are described as being vivid, emotional, deliberate, exhilarating, under-control, and involving clear and complex thought processes. My dreams, on the other hand, have all been very short (I think the longest was at most 1 minute,) chaotic, my thoughts were totally sluggish, fuddled, and clouded, my senses were extremely dulled and even unresponsive, I could not control anything other than myself, and basically nothing was sharp or clear at all. It was like trying to take a math test after being deprived of sleep for a month and then getting bashed on the head with a sledgehammer a few times for good measure.
How can I improve the quality of my dreams? Thanks alot!

Oh yeah, another problem I had was that I always felt like I was on the verge of waking back up again and I dreaded that, as obviously I wanted my lucidity to continue. This nagging feeling spoiled most of the fun of lucid dreaming.

**GestaltAlteration** · 09-27-2007 06:47 AM

Improving the quality is fortunantly quite easy. Keep a dream journal, write down each and every dream you remember. After some time of doing this you'll find your dreams quite vivid, and also remembering more than one a night. How much sleep you had prior also affects dream quality. The longest and best ones are after 6 hours, ideally after 8.

When you have more quality lucids it will feel much different. Much like real life enhanced. You should read up on how to maintain a lucid dream once your in it. The best way I find is to kneel down and focus on something real hard. I never wake up after that.

Anyhow welcome to the forums!

**Wavefunction** · 09-27-2007 07:15 AM

to Dreamviews!
I don't have much to add to GA's help.

**peppy** · 09-27-2007 10:07 AM

Hey there,

to Dreamviews. As Gestalt said, keeping a dream journal will definitely help.

**CymekSniper** · 09-27-2007 02:32 PM

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**dreamscaper22** · 09-27-2007 02:40 PM

like gestalt said, keeep a dream journal and there are so many ways to get lucid...

**Wavefunction** · 09-28-2007 05:08 AM

Originally Posted by CymekSniper

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There will be no killing of newbies in this forum!

**widefinopen** · 09-30-2007 08:37 PM

Thanks everybody, I really appreciate it. I have been away for awhile, but I will start my dream journal tonight.

**widefinopen** · 09-30-2007 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by CymekSniper

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**rockchick26** · 09-30-2007 09:59 PM

I'm pretty much a newbie too...my dreams are not clear and vivid at all either. I too wondered how everyone has such realistic dreams,mine dont seem normal enough to be real and they certainly dont have much vividness to them. I guess it comes in time. I haven't had any lucid dreams yet where i can fully control things either,i guess that comes with time too. Keep practicing,keep up the dream journal and reality checks,it has to click for us sooner or later LOL