Thread: What can't you do in a lucid dream?

I have no idea.

I have seen dream colors. I have killed myself in a dream. I have shared dreams with others. I don't know my limits.

Hmm... This really is a tough one. There are too many things you can do in a dream... It outweighs the things you can't do, if there are any things you can't do at all...

I think any perception of dream limitations are just conscious mental constructs. Nobody knows if they exist.

I would think it would be very difficult to speed read and memorise the information.

It really depends on the invidual. There certainly are things you can't do, for example you can't construct a PIC processor with 600000 transistors, make it oscillate at 30,402MHz, write a new program (a program you never wrote before) for it and expect it to perform it perfectly.

But that's a limitation in logic really, which we come to face a lot when we're dreaming.

It would most likely be impossible to acquire new knowledge you've never been exposed to before (i.e. an accurate knowledge of upper-college level calculus).

It would be impossible to become omnipotent and totally aware of every minute detail in the universe.

something that might be impossible would be to look at clock in a lucid dream and the time on it is the actual time in real life. just a thought. a way this could be tested is to become lucid, look at a clock then wake yourself up and check the real time. but what a waste of a lucid dream.

Be a planet and sustain life, I guess, that and forget a lot of laws from waking world.

with skill, almost anything. You see a lot of us aren't that good at lucid dreaming yet. I have a hard time controlling other DCs actions, teleporting, changing light, etc.

Like Marvo somehow explained, you actually can't make something that after its creation does no longer act like a experience build up by your unconscious mind.

Its not like a big computer that simulates everythink and makes a small part of it visible to you. All you see and feel IS what actualy runs. There is nothing behind you! (Expect for the 360 Degree People )

You can't set real limits for your self in a world where you have unlimited powers (Even if you fail to control it with your consciousness part)

Its like "Can god make a stone that is so heavy that he can't lift it" with the answear "NO! "


What actualy makes this dream world so rich and wonderfull is the BIG unconscious part of you that is way bigger than your conscious part.

Basicly LD is a way to meet your self with all the experience that are hidden from your conscious.

Originally Posted by louie54

Just curious.

What I mean by this, is what is actually impossible to do in a dream.

Some may say new color

Or, some may say turning on/off light (which is actually false).

Keep it real. Seriously.

Nothing. You can convince yourself of anything.

The OP's question asked what is impossible to do IN a lucid dream. Not what is possible during a lucid dream that would then turn out to be impossible when carried over to waking life.

The laws of physics you can break.
The laws of reality are a different matter...
Like I said, you can't acquire radically new information you've never been acquainted with before (e.g. college calculus), but you can use a dream to try and make connections or otherwise "get" the subject material.
Along the same lines, it would be impossible to become omniscient, or all-knowing. There is simply no way you could tune yourself into every little pebble on earth, etc.
It is also impossible to visualize a new color, because you haven't been acquainted with it. You could try to imagine what it would be like to see infrared or other wavelengths, but nothing new can come out of the known spectrum of visible light.

Ive tried to be a famous rapper on stage, but Im never able to freestyle even if I am 100% lucid....

i had trouble teleporting, but it was my first lond lucid dream

Originally Posted by FireViper15

i had trouble teleporting, but it was my first lond lucid dream

yea i woke my self up this morning trying to teleport

Originally Posted by WakingNomad

I have seen dream colors.

As in colors that don't exist in reality?

Well, that was the only thing I could think of... Maybe new senses?