Why is it always dark in my lucid dreams?

[Luminous_Locust]

Hi folks, last night i´ve had a really cool LD. I woke up in my bed at my parents house and I became lucid. I can´t remember why I became lucid but I think I did a WTBT. It was Night in my dream. Like always I became lucid. And I think thats my problem. I´ve had few lucid dreams since I´ve started to read about it. And all of them were in the dark. It doesen´t matter if I´m in a room or outside. It´s always dark. Last night I tried to change it to daylight. I´ve started screaming "DAYLIGHT... I want the sunrise right now...I want light..." while I was looking at the horizont. Everything was pretty vivid but dark. An suddenly a fire broke out right in the direction I was looking. Yes I´m the firedevil! hehe! It was really funny because I wanted daylight and a fire started. It was beautyfull but it stayed dark around me because the fire was to far away. Now I wonder if anyone else had this experience of darkness. Btw this forum is a awsome help for me...thanks to all you Lucid Travelers! So I´m out! bye

[nina]

Interesting, I have had experiences also where my LD is completely dark and it is really frustrating. Try verbal commands that are very direct like "lights on" or "light now"...or you could try to open a door knowing that it will be daylight on the other side. Sometimes though I get stuck in the darkness, and eventually wake up...so that I can go back into another LD...this time hopefully there will be light. Good luck!!

[Clairity]

My last few LDs were not necessary dark as in at night but more like at dusk.. I'm able to see but not as well as I'd like. I don't know why this has happened.. except perhaps the DILDs occurred earlier in the morning and my bedroom was still dark. That could be it.. when I do wbtb, I move to the living room couch and only "dim" the lights. Perhaps my WILDS are always sunny/bright due to the "lightness" of the room I'm laying in?!

[Alric]

I think its another way of a dream to fade. Like everything can be real fuzzy or it gets darker. If it is real vivid though maybe its just a subconscious thing. Like people sleep at night so their dreams are dark because their sleeping. Even if you sleep during the day, it might still relate sleep with darkness.

[existenceisadream]

What has worked for me is when I become lucid and it's really dark I'll tell myself it's because I'm wearing sun glasses and reach up and take them off. I've done this a few times and the LD becomes very bright and vivid.

[Syntex]

Yea i've done that sunglasses thing too, it works well except i tend to keep having to take layers and layers of sunglasses off to keep things vivid and bright. I've had alot of dark dreams, typically during the very very early part of when i go to sleep I'm starting to think those kind of dreams are NON-REM dreams where non-vivid dreams occure. If you happen to be lucid during one of these non-rem dreams, it can be very frustrating because its so damn dark, and not much u do will change that. Yea best things that work for me is the sunglasses and trying to start a new dream by spinning or whatever. -Daniel

[Luminous_Locust]

Hey thx to all of you... This sunglasses trick sounds really good!

[existenceisadream]

[quote] I'm starting to think those kind of dreams are NON-REM dreams where non-vivid dreams occure. If you happen to be lucid during one of these non-rem dreams, it can be very frustrating because its so damn dark, and not much u do will change that. I agree with you on that. I often become lucid right after falling to sleep or in the first few hours of sleep and these LD's are very dark and it doesn't seem like I can do much to change it.