Thread: Just How Vivid Can Lucid Dreams Get?

Well if you mistake it for reality, then it's no longer a lucid dream, right?

But anyway, they can be very vivid, more vivid than real life even. Try out some lucidity/clarity increasing techniques next time you're lucid.

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

Well if you mistake it for reality, then it's no longer a lucid dream, right?

But anyway, they can be very vivid, more vivid than real life even. Try out some lucidity/clarity increasing techniques next time you're lucid.

I intend to, if I can ever have an LD where I have enough free will and control (and one that lasts long enough) to actually use the vividness- and clarity-increasing techniques. Oh well, practice practice practice, as they say.

You'd be surprised at how realistic they can be. My most effective clarity technique is to stop what I'm doing and stare at my hands for a little bit. They come into focus to where I can see my fingerprints, and even they sometimes magnify into deep crevices. Usually, after I've grounded myself, I will lower my hands and look around. Everything that used to be a blur, when I was initially dreaming, suddenly comes into hi-definition. It's amazing; not a blur or blemish, just complete, visual perfection. It's hard not to just stand there and stare, in awe, sometimes.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

You'd be surprised at how realistic they can be. My most effective clarity technique is to stop what I'm doing and stare at my hands for a little bit. They come into focus to where I can see my fingerprints, and even they sometimes magnify into deep crevices. Usually, after I've grounded myself, I will lower my hands and look around. Everything that used to be a blur, when I was initially dreaming, suddenly comes into hi-definition. It's amazing; not a blur or blemish, just complete, visual perfection. It's hard not to just stand there and stare, in awe, sometimes.

Thanks! That's exactly what I was hoping to hear!

Most of mine are pretty vivid, but with a sort of haze so you can tell it's a dream. But one of my lucids had PERFECT clarity. It looked EXACTLY like real life, and if I wasn't so aware then I would have thought it was real.

I've only had one lucid that I know was a lucid dream, and I wasn't able to keep a hold of it long enough to play around with it, or keep clarity. The lucidity I had been able to play with was going back to the start when things were fading. It was as if my mind was creating a world, and with me aware of it being a dream, my mind was only able to create a little at a time. I would go past the created part, and the dream faded. I would think myself back at the begining and start again, getting a little further, and it would fade again. After 3 times of bringing myself back, it was gone. I've gone out of practice of even recording my remembered dreams, so it may be a while for me to get back to my goal of lucid dreams, and I hope I can get some as realistically life like as some of my non lucid dreams.

Yes i believe tarrant is right. You would probably lose lucidity in that case lol. But i had my first real deal last night and it was every bit as real as my waking life. I just knew i was dreaming and kept myself confident knowing that i could control everything. The memory feels so real that i cant believe i cant fly in real life!

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

Try out some lucidity/clarity increasing techniques next time you're lucid.

Bless my soul, I didn't even know such techniques existed! Well, I know about the hand rubbing one, but that's it. Any other techniques?

Originally Posted by hankwheels

Bless my soul, I didn't even know such techniques existed! Well, I know about the hand rubbing one, but that's it. Any other techniques?

Yeh this is the technique i use all the time to great effect. My lucid can be very blurry and then i shout out increase clarity or increase lucidity and the lucid can completely transform into a crystal clear lucid dream.

It can work wonders.

Yeah shouting out "clarity" or "im dreaming" usually does it for me. Have tried taking a clarity "pill" once. But that had the opposite effect.

Just out of curiousity does anyone have any techniques for increasing dreaming intensity?

The only thing that seems to work for me is to have more intense experiences during the day to increase the intensity of my dreams at night. I feel that my dreaming awareness is a reflection of my waking life.

for example:

-doing things which frighten me
-going to an intense club/ party scene
-meeting with friends

Often, people do not become lucid because they think that what they're experiencing is reality, and thus nothing unusual springs to mind about the bizarre, twisted dream world that they're in.

During my second WILD, I knew that I was dreaming due to the process shortly before that put me into such a state. However, as the experience was incredibly mindblowing, I then started to ponder if I was really awake. This was then followed by me ceasing any insalubrious actions and avoiding deleterious circumstances.

It is interesting to note that people remark: 'am I dreaming?' to become lucid, and in this instance I was questioning: 'could this be reality?', because it was too real: stable, usual, bound by fundamental laws.

That's what I define as real. Nonetheless, 'real dreams' are too alike reality, and are therefore seemingly mundane.