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This morning I was wondering why my dreams can be almost indistinguishable from reality, yet when I visualise something, it lacks vividness and clarity. Not only that but I often get distracted when I visualise something - I vanish down a stream of consciously only to snap out of it a few seconds later and realise that I had lost focus.
There is a method of inducing lucid dreams that is getting a lot of love on Reddit at the moment. The FILD method is described in this post, but the technique can be summed up as follows:
Go to sleep.
Wake up when you're very tired, perhaps using an alarm.
Start tapping two fingers very gently, using a minimal amount of energy. Keep tapping and let yourself drift off to sleep.
Do a reality check after a few minutes.