I have been trying lucid dreaming for a little ove a month now, and I have had 5 LDs. Most, if not all of them have been DILD. I Often start doing someting in a dream that I wouldn’t normally do, and them realize I am dreaming. For example, I was acting in some sort of movie, and I always messed up and I thought to myself:
“Why am I doing this? I’m a bad actor. Hey I’m dreaming!”
On my first LD, I got excited and immediatly woke up. I have gotten better at staying calm, but I still can’t stay lucid. In my LDs, I can never think clearly, and nothing looks any more vivid than in my normal dreams. Usually I lose the lucid state immediatly, but sometimes I hld on to it for longer. Only once was I thinking clearly enough to try to stay lucid. I tried the spinning technique. When I stopped spinning, all I saw was blackness, like the kind of blackness you see when you close your eyes. Then, I realized my eyes were closed, so I opened them and I was awake! So much for staying lucid…
So, does anyone know how I can stay lucid and think clearler in my dreams?
Nobody can. In LD, we are really stupid ! It’s not we are stupid indeed, but we act and think in a strange way.
That’s common. Be patient, it will increase with experience.
I try this method twice with the same result ! Perhaps it was because I closed my eyes ? When you lose the vision, a good method is to rub your hands. The vision comes back.
In your LDs, look regularly at your hands. Rub them from time to time. Don’t close your eyes.
Perhaps try to make some simple math exercices like counting from 1 to 10… I heard it can help to increase your rational side in LD. But is it really important to increase the rational side of your mind in an irrational context ?
In my recent LD’s closing my eyes has helped me to start flying. But as a rule of dumb: do not close your eyes, chances are that you most probably lose your lucidity
Yes, all the low level lucid dreams I’ve had (about 4) have been no more vivid then my other dreams! Hope I see all the vividness everyone is always talking about when I get better.
Hmm. I’ve had about ten non-vivid lucid dreams, so it’s not just you. I actually lost interest in lucid dreaming for about two weeks because I couldn’t do it right. Then, as I fell asleep on my couch one night I had a five minute, truly vivd lucid dream. I spent almost the whole time jumping as high as I could (wasn’t really high at the time) ><
Alright, the only tip I can give you to keep your lucidity and keep the dreaming going longer is not doing anything that you can’t do in RL. Beleive me, it works wonders. For Example, a few nights ago I experimented with it. I realized that I was dreaming when a school bus I was in got smashed into a lake and it starting sinking impossibly fast. I tried to get out but I was stuck, and I ran out of breath. Then I was able to breathe! So I figured it was a dream. In my dreams for some reason I’m not “stupid” and I could think clearly, and even remember things that happened that same day as though it were still RL. So I remembered reading about someone telling someone else to do the same thing I’m telling you, which is don’t do anything that you can’t do in RL.
So I followed along with the dream and it lasted 15 whole minutes without losing lucidity. It was strange, because my mind knew what I was supposed to do even though I was lucid…
Then last night I had another lucid dream upon which I did the normal things that people do in lucid dreams (flying, and the other good things wink wink) The whole thing lasted around 20 minutes. Could just be cooinsidence, but I think that the doing nothing technique helped.
Also, while you’re doing nothing keep repeating to yourself “I’m lucid” or “I’m dreaming” I used I’m lucid, but it’s all the same
It’s not we are stupid indeed, but we act and think in a strange way.
Perhaps it was because I closed my eyes ? When you lose the vision, a good method is to rub your hands. The vision comes back.
