Thread: Just How Vivid Can Lucid Dreams Get?

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.