I’ve been practicing lucid dreaming for almost six months now and I usually get lucid once or twice or three times every week, but these dreams are usually very “dim”, and I have trouble thinking clearly in them. This can be very frustrating at times, especially when I try to do something and can’t, or the dream will just suddenly dissolve around me for no apparent reason. Sometimes I can stay in them for extended amounts of time, but even then I still have trouble thinking straight. It’s as if I’ve been drugged or something and I’m in a half awake stupor. Does anyone else ever have this problem and if so do you know any ways around it?
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I know how that feels. I think it’s “just” a case of increasing lucidity. You can shout out “increase lucidity”, that usually works for most people. You can try to take a few deep breaths and tell yourself to focus, that’s worked a bit with me. The problem might be being lucid enough in the first place to remember to do these things. I use autosuggestion to take care of that, to remember what I want to do.
thanks ill research autosuggestion see if it can help me out.
One technique that my friend suggested was that when you are in a dream and your lucid and you have your dream body, you should feel your own body (not sounding wrong or anything) and feel your surroundings and forget about your own body. That way your mind will be more attached to the dream and that your lucid. Also you could try performing a few RCs to make your head clear that your dreaming and realise that your Lucid.
What most people do at first is going straight away in doing what they planned to do the night before the LD (if they remember it), but that way you get only a low-lucid (most of the time). What you must do instead is, when you realize you’re dreaming, stop what you’re doing and take some time (1 minute, tops) devoted to increasing lucidity. The methods are various, but the main point is biringing awareness of your condition, and to do this, focusing on your sensations seems like the best idea, beacuse of its immediacy.
The techniques to use that LaBerge mentions as th emost effective in EWLD are:
- Spinning: spin like a top, arms stretched out, and remind yourself this is a dream. The brain activates in response to the danger of falling and brings you automatical awareness of your dream body;
- Rubbing your hands/feeling objects: rubbing your hands together or, alternatively, feeling the texture of clothes, doors, walls etc. brings you tactile experience, which is the closest thing to the perception of your body.
Be wary, as some methods may work better than others (I, for example, get dizzy after dream spinning, but the hand rubbing works wonders)
The key here is feeling your dream body and clinging to it by experiencing all its senses.
After that, when you see the colors of your dream fading, or the images getting blurry, or the minor senses disappearing (ie you are left out with sight and hearing only, or only sight) you must be ready to repeat the process and let your dream world become crisp and colourful again.
I think what happens is that in a lucid dream, your technically half asleep and half awake. There was one dream I was lucid but I felt to lazy/tired to think or try and actually take control of my actions. I think your body is actually tired ( like when you wake up and you don’t want to, you just want to go back to sleep) and that’s what happens in some dreams. The tiredness from real life mixes into your dream. You can try summoning an energy drink in your dream from your pocket see if that can help you, or magical beans to clear your head.