After practicing and thinking about lucid dreaming for a couple of months I have started having semi-regular LD’s. I have had four since November 18, which is about one a week.
In my very first LD I experienced amazing visual clarity. It was like emerging from a tunnel into the real world. But in every LD since the visuals have been very obscure and disappointing. I can feel my body, but I can’t see properly.
The last two dreams were particularly frustrating. In both dreams a strange white light got into my eyes and made it impossible to see anything. The first time it happened after I closed my eyes while trying to change a pig into a man. The second time I was running into darkness and I wanted everything to get brighter.
Does anyone have any advice that could help increase the vividness and visual clarity of my dreams, or is it simply a matter of experience and practice? I tried shouting, “increase lucidity” or “lucidity x1000” and that didn’t seem to help very much. I also tried spinning and that got rid of the white light, but I lost lucidity in the process.
I am happy to continue practicing and will try spinning again, I was just wondering if anyone else had experienced similar problems and could offer any helpful advice.
. This is what i do: If you need the dream to become clearer, focus on something. For example, I stared at a coffee table in a dream once and focused on it. I saw all the grains of wood, the shine of the polish, ect… it got really clear. I looked around and everything else was great. 
So find something to focus on, pay attention to the details. Tell me how it works for you!
I can’t remember exactly when in the night it was but I usually sleep from 3am to about 1pm give or take an hour on either side. So it’s quite possible it was late in the day…