主题:Dreams Are More Frequent, But No Increase In LucidityHello, I'm 16, I've tried WBTB with FILD and MILD many times without success. I'm kind of slacking with RCing as I didn't recognise any improvement with them. Anyways, I have got my dram recall rate up, remembering scenes from dreams every night. (3 dreams lastnight).
My problem is that even with increased dream recall, there is no increase in lucidity or vividness. It is very much like remembering scenes from a movie. Any tips for increased lucidity?
I've never heard any of these methods but thank you maybe I'll try them. For me I have tried RCing and it never seems to work and MILD without knowing that was an actual method. Commonly I just accidentally realize I'm dreaming. And this is when I'm a certain kind of tired haha. It's when I come home from school or work and try not to fall asleep. But I'm so tired. So I lay down and I know that I can fall asleep in minutes. This kind of tiredness makes using the methods a lot easier. But don't focus on the methods entirely. Let ur brain start a scenario when ur eyes close and eventually you'll think it's real. That's when MILD come in to play. I hope this works. I usually put on one song and by the time it's over I'm asleep and have realized I'm dreaming. Try doing that to trigger your awareness.
This is normal, once you have 1, it will get more easy.
Just keep trying, and get used to questioning if you are dreaming in the waking world.
Sorry that I don't have an answer but this is exactly what it's like for me. I'm 16 too lol. Anyway, it's pretty frustrating and I know where your coming from and I hope someone has an answer
Well I'm much older than you guys but I started around your age. I was recalling vividly 4 or 5 dreams with lots of details spending a ton of time writing them down by hand in my dream journal. It took a few months and daily practice but I still remember my first lucid awakening like it was yesterday. I had never experienced such vivid details and colors in my entire life. It completely changed my worldview.
One great trick is drinking a big glass of water before you go to sleep. This will wake you up in,a little while giving you a great chance to recall you dream, record it, and then go back in for more. Sometimes I'd repeat the process and spend all night having new dreams this way. Make sure it's water and nothing else.
Be patient, give it more time. Lack of vividness points to lack of general attention to life experiences (both waking and dreaming). Try spending less time "zoned out" on videos, games, or other activities where you "lose yourself," and instead pay attention closely to the present moment. You can only remember experiences vividly if you pay close attention to them while they're happening. Today people are "zoned out" ("on autopilot") a big majority of the time. Pay attention to your experiences, reflect up on them (particularly, "is this dream-like?" "How odd is this?"), and practice recalling them (recall your day before bed, and your night [dreams] in the morning). Keep doing this and vividness of both waking and dreaming experiences will eventually skyrocket.
Lucidity comes from the higher cognitive functions of your brain. Without waking them up during R.E.M. it is impossible to achieve high level of lucidity. You can try practicing awareness during the day but it is unlikely to help you during sleep. Assuming such practice indeed heightens your awareness to a higher level, it's still not going to help you because when their corresponding regions are suppressed you don't get to use all that extra awareness anyway.
Dream vividness depends on several factors, to name a few:
1. The perceived vividness after you wake up. It is normal for us to forget our dreams. Even when we do remember them they no longer feel as real. This is a safety mechanism and you'd better keep it that way. If dream memories don't fade they can become very problematic.
2. The stage of sleep.
3. Your brain condition and physical health.
4. The cooperativeness of your subconscious.
During lucid dreaming there are techniques to make the dream more vivid, but this doesn't seem to be your question.
To add on to others, I feel one really important part about RCs is prospective memory, and people barely talk about it. Whether because it isn't effective or people just focus on the RCs but never learned about prospective memory, I don't know, but it seemed to be a pretty important part for MILD according to Stephen Laberge. You can see the exercise here:
http://www.dreamviews.com/general-lucid-discussion/80177-exercise-prospective-memory-training.htmlI've had a few LDs before, but this morning had my real first legit DILD where I thought "this feels strange, am I dreaming?" I got back into dream journaling about 2 weeks ago, started practicing RCs properly a few days ago, started the prospective memory exercise yesterday, and this morning's dream was coupled with WBTB + SSILD. I feel my DILD worked because:
1) SSILD allowed me to more vividly feel what's going on, that's how I was able to feel what I was doing was strange
2) Doing RCs properly had my mindset focused on questioning reality
3) (possibly) as a supplement to 2) my prospective memory reminded me to remember to question reality.