On the rare occaisons that I’ve become lucid or aware that I am dreaming it is usually immediatly followed by a complet loss of vision. It’s not that I wake up, I’m still very much in the dream. I can hear thing, smell things, sometimes I even feel like I run into things, but I cannot see anything.
Now, being in a dream you think it would be easy for me to will vision into being, but it’s not. So I usually end up making myself wake up and thus ending the LD.
But what I really want to know if that’s normal and if there’s any way I can stop that from happening. The best part about draming is seeing where you are and it’s a huge dissappointment if you’re stumbeling around blind.
I too have the same problem. In fact, all of my LDs have ended with my eyes suddely closing while in the dream, and ends up with me having to force myself awake. (just like you I can feel and move, but cant see! )
But!- On my most recent LD, it happened again. I got very irritated and thought “im not letting this happen again!” . So I spun around as quickly as I could, helicopter style . (arms out in “T” formation) and to my surprise my vision stablizied! But about 3 mins later it happened again, this time I actually tried to “pull” my eyes open, but with no success.
So my advice would either be to spin like there’s no tomorrow, or mabye try grabbing hold of an object, feel it, and try to “see” what you are holding.
Spinning is probably a good idea. Today I had the same problem, I didn’t spin. I just waited a while and was determined to get back in there. Though I was not entirely sure I was still dreaming all the times. I was probably waking up from excitement. And just needed to calm down.
Losing visuals is rather common. I don’t think you can stop it happening but there are tips to get vision back. The most known are: rubbing your hands and spinning. As 0Haku0 says, grabbing something and feeling it is a good method too.
Well, I really cant talk with experience on behalf of LD’s. But I have gotten this quite a few times with ND’s…Quite exactly as you described it. Its like I’ll be having a dream with my eyes closed/half closed or only certain parts of the dream are seen. I even remember getting annoyed at not being able to see in these dreams and I’m quite surpised that they didnt turn into LD’s.
something like this happened to me once, and its what(at least i think it is) caused me to wake up during my only lucid dream. What happened was i was flying, but i felt this urge to leave my basement, so i tried to fly THROUGH the house, like literally through the boards and everything, but i got “stuck” and when i was in between floors and stuff it just went black, so i closed my eyes and though id reopen them in a bit and be outside my house, but instead i couldnt open them. Then, when i did open my eyes, i actually woke up.
Not quite the exact same, but it went black and yah.
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. So I spun around as quickly as I could, helicopter style 
. (arms out in “T” formation) and to my surprise my vision stablizied! But about 3 mins later it happened again, this time I actually tried to “pull” my eyes open, but with no success.
But I have gotten this quite a few times with ND’s…Quite exactly as you described it. Its like I’ll be having a dream with my eyes closed/half closed or only certain parts of the dream are seen. I even remember getting annoyed at not being able to see in these dreams and I’m quite surpised that they didnt turn into LD’s. 