Lately, I’ve realized how unconvincing the imagery in my dreams is. it simply does not look like real life. But I have developed a trick: If I have a further dream within that dream, and so on, the images become increasingly defined and the experience more lucid as a whole. Has anyone else done this?
Welcome Daron
That is quite interesting. How do you that exactly? Do you go to bed again in the dream? Perhaps in the same position you are really sleeping in? Or you just create a new layer out of the blue somehow?
Generally I just go back to bed within the dream. My bedroom is usually part of the dream, or at least the part where I begin it anyway, so it’s never difficult. One thing I have noticed, however, is that four levels down, it becomes difficult to move.
I think I know what you mean, except for I don’t ’ go back to bed in the dream '. Instead, I use a random dream object as an anchor and grab it with both hands. Then, I pull myself forwards, and as I do, the clarity increases. If I push myself back, it decreases.
I’ve also noticed, like you, that if I go too far, it becomes very hard to move, and I can’t get myself back to the state I was in before. I find that the scale for lucid clarity is kind of like this:
fuzzy imagery, no mobility -> fuzzy imagery, little mobility -> unclear imagery, average mobility -> unclear imagery, high mobility -> average imagery, little mobility -> average imagery, average mobility -> average imagery, high mobility -> high-quality imagery, average mobility -> high-quality imagery, little mobility -> high-quality imagery, no mobility
Depending on what stage you start at, you’ll have to move until you get to either average imagery, high mobility or high-quality imagery, average mobility. My problem is that I often start at the last stage, and since I can’t move, I’m stuck.