Thread: Just How Vivid Can Lucid Dreams Get?

I've had a couple of lucid dreams, but they pale in comparison to some of the experience reports by the more accomplished LDers. I just wondered: how vivid can a lucid dream get? Is it possible to have one that's vivid enough that it might be mistaken for reality?

Just wondering.

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.

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

Originally Posted by Asymptote

I've had a couple of lucid dreams, but they pale in comparison to some of the experience reports by the more accomplished LDers. I just wondered: how vivid can a lucid dream get? Is it possible to have one that's vivid enough that it might be mistaken for reality?

Just wondering.

I just had a lucid last night (one that finally broke my dry spell! ) anyway, after examining my hands, it became so realistic that I was almost emberassed about asking my friend something about a portal because I wondered if I was really dreaming or awake. It was my most vivid ld yet, so I did 2 reality checks before I was certain.

lol lagunagirl your quote is hilarious

They can sometimes make reality look dull.

I finally bought LaBerge's book (Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming), and I'm quite pleased with what I'm learning. I hadn't considered the possibility that LD's could be "realer" than reality. Now I've got all the motivation I need! Thanks to everyone for all the new replies!

Lucid Dreams can definitely be more vivid than real life.Like one time i was in my room and i couldn't tell whether it a dream or real life. Until I notice that some of the stuff weren't mine but they were so real. By then i was lucid, i tried getting out but i was stuck in my room when i went to the hall a magnetic force pulled me back to my room . But i was smarter why try the door when u have a window lol i escaped through the window. I had tried to pass through the wall by charging it but it was like in real life and i couldn't. But the window worked lol!!! Great way of getting out of ur room window...!!

I´ve had LD´s that were kind of blurry and also LD´s that were incredibly superclear! It´s like you have super- senses... I have tried a technique I read about in La Berges book. You use a remotecontrol to a TV and increase color, sound etc and that works wonders.