u/Bunchum1

I tend to lucid dream a lot naturally. No wbtb or any techniques, but all of my lucid dreams (and I see this problem with many people, they just don’t know how to word it) end up with me being knowing I’m in a dream for a few seconds but my mind is still very foggy and my subconscious is still controlling me and sometimes I might be able to perform a small action of my choice before I loose lucidity. The best way I can explain how this feels is like this

“Oh I’m in a dream”
Dream: “that’s not important rn. Keep on with how this dream is supposed to go.”
“Oh ok 👍 “

And then I just loose my lucidity. But last night, I had my first kind of normal lucid dream. Where I woke up naturally in the middle of the night, I’m guessing this is when my rem period was or whatever u call it. Then I went to bed normally. I was having a bad dream, not a nightmare but just not a pleasant one, and suddenly I realized that I was dreaming. I didn’t have to do any reality checks or anything. This time I tried to focus a lot on the fact than I’m dreaming and I felt like my eyes were opening up inside the dream and I maintained my lucidity. Though my mind was still foggy and every minute I had to stop whatever I was doing and focus so I stay lucid. I was able to stay like this until I woke up but I still won’t consider it a completely normal lucid dream since my mind was still foggy and I only controlled half the things I was doing and could barely keep my lucidity. It felt like I was in a battle of tug of war with my subconscious to stay lucid.

Does anyone have any idea on how I can make my mind less foggy? I tried the thing where you try to feel your surroundings but I couldn’t feel anything. I feel like I’m almost there to mastering lucid dreams if I just fix this issue. When people talk abt dreams not being vivid is this what they mean?

This is my first time posting on Reddit so sorry if this is written poorly.