How can I increase my dream clarity?

[Russ3ll]

How can I increase my dream clarity? Because my dreams are so hazy. It's upsetting because when I lucid dream, it's more of like just day dreaming because it's so unclear. Any ways to increase the clarity of my dreams?

[Goldy]

I'm actually having the exact same problem as you my friend. I just posted a thread before reading this in the lucid aid section. I have heard that taking B6 or 5-htp before bed will help. I'll let you know if I read anything else.

[Koalaman]

Try to look at the floor. Don't stare at it, but just look at it. I found that this usually increased my dream clarity. Or rub your hands. Or start spinning. Or yell out for dream clarity. Perhaps believing that it works has to do with it too.

[44CalibreSunlight]

Yeah, above all it's just believing and knowing it works. I think so anyway. I've barely lucid dreamed, yet the couple times I have my world was crystal clear and I had no problems staying in or not being excited, just cause I knew it didn't have to be that way from the start.

[spiritofthewolf]

The best way to insure clarity in a lucid dream; in my opinion, is when you become lucid just stand still for a few seconds and let everything come into focus. Let your surroundings come into focus, as well as your awareness. After a few seconds of this, everything should be crystal clear Spiritofthewolf

[Koalaman]

The best way to insure clarity in a lucid dream; in my opinion, is when you become lucid just stand still for a few seconds and let everything come into focus. Let your surroundings come into focus, as well as your awareness. After a few seconds of this, everything should be crystal clear Spiritofthewolf I will try this and report my experience. Not sure when my next (foggy) lucid dream will be.

[ConsciousnessObserver]

The best way to insure clarity in a lucid dream; in my opinion, is when you become lucid just stand still for a few seconds and let everything come into focus. Let your surroundings come into focus, as well as your awareness. After a few seconds of this, everything should be crystal clear Spiritofthewolf Pretty sure spiritofthewolf has it down right here. I had a dream last night with alot of q's that should have allowed me to go lucid, but i didn't pick up on them, even thopugh I have very vivid recall of it. But the first lucid I have had was just last monday(sunday night), and I had mentioned when describing my dream in the nebie zone about reading in these forums someone saying to stop and observe everything(was probobly you spirit) Anyway, I DID do it in my lucid dream at the second world I got to(was in two different enviorments that dream) and the second world became so vivid if I was a good artist I could paint an entire picture of about 99.9.% of the surroundings in the dream. I got to the 2nd world, it was quiet and non-threatening so just like spirit said, I perched myself on a log sticking up in the air and just observed everything. Felt ALOT like the type of awareness/observation based meditations I practice in real life. Like switch from a standard definition tv to a hi-def. Definitly give it a try.

[Pretzel]

That happens to me, especially when I'm about to wake up. It's like I'm just thinking images to myself and not actually being there. I've found that rubbing my hands together has helped. Also, when you first become lucid, stand and think about what is happening and where you are.

[slayer]

Spinning around Rubbing your hands together Yelling out loud things like, "Dream clear up!" or "Vividness now!"

[Goldy]

I had a Lucid last night and it started to fade out and stuff so I remembered to yell out Dream Clarity! The more I yelled it the clearer it got and it would slowly start to fade after that so I would yell it every couple minutes or so and it really works!

[C911]

Try to look at one object and see every detail in it. Just stare at the detail and try to make out the object as best as you can. Then once that one object is in clear view, try looking at a bigger object, such as the wall or something, and work on seeing the entire detail of that. Look for small things.

[Blazeingcxh]

That happens to me, especially when I'm about to wake up. It's like I'm just thinking images to myself and not actually being there. EXACTLY like this for me,except my dreams are in third person

[Something Else]

I also agree with what other people said. Taking time to very slowly and carefully look at things seems to help stabilize. Touching things very slowly and deliberately helps too. If there is nothing to touch, then rub your hands together. Basically taking time to FEEL the dream with conscious intent seems to help me out, but only some of the times. Sometimes I get stuck in a scene and the dream freezes up like a computer that has been overloaded. (I guess my brain is too small. hehehe) But very often many times going to fast and unconsciously wild will definitely stop a dream for me. There needs to be a good balance though because doing things has proven in my dreams to extend them, but doing too much breaks them up. I am sure there is more to it than this, but I just can't put my finger on the missing piece yet.

[scratchtp]

This has been one of my problems as well. It seems like everyone has a different way that works for them. I know that asking for clarity or demanding clarity don't seem to work well for me. I think its really just a matter of what you believe will work (like others have said) or feels right at the time in your dream. Something that has consistently worked for me has been falling or laying down I think because I can bring a lot of senses into play, like feeling the ground, seeing blades of grass up close, smelling things etc. I was talking to my mom about this the other day and she said if a dream is ending when she doesn't want it to she imagines music playing and somehow this solidifies the dream...

[Sirius3]

How can I increase my dream clarity? Because my dreams are so hazy. It's upsetting because when I lucid dream, it's more of like just day dreaming because it's so unclear. Any ways to increase the clarity of my dreams? While I agree with many of the posts on this subject, I think that what a person is doing in their waking life has an effect good or bad on the abilty to have LD's and prolonging them under control. Diet, exercise, meditation are important factors, in my experience. If I over-eat, take too much red meat and beer, laze around too much the result is hazy dreams and inabilty to remember dreams. Listening to good music is a kind of meditation, reading good literature also. And of course reading other peoples' experiences of Out-of-body and Lucid dreaming helps to focus and achieve good results. Clear night skies, Sirius.

[legbuh]

Yes, what you believe will work, works. I didn't know how to do it, and reading on this site rubbing your hands made sense. The first time I tried it it worked. Why? Probably more because I had read it worked for others. Not because I was rubbing my hands. But it's like others.. I rub and it gets better, then starts to fade again, over and over until you can't hold on anymore. Oh well... a short LD is better than none at all.