Thread: Do you feel the ground in dreams?

Hmmm, I mean I'd say that's pretty accurate. I don't really pay attention to things that minute.. But, if I really think about it, I don't really feel that pressure from the ground in my dreams, or at least I don't notice it. If it is there it seems it's certainly to a lesser degree.

I don't notice the ground under my feet in dreams any more than I do in real life. The only times I really pay attention in dreams are when I'm falling and about to land or something similar. I also find that I pay attention to the ground under my feet while walking in waking life but not while dreaming. I'd say that focusing on feeling the ground beneath you would be a good gravity RC, mainly because it's one of those small things you don't notice when you're dreaming.

i had feel ground in one ld, i start to spin i cant stop i just spin spin only think i see is a ground i toutch it it was cold and wet.

I would say that I do not feel the ground (or gravity in general) in dreams unless I intentionally try to feel it. In other words, if I'm just standing there in a dream, I won't feel the influence of gravity. By extension, it can be very easy to notice that you don't feel the ground before you actually try to do so, so the Gravity RC doers make sense.

You might want to ask the gravity RC man himself, Hukif, as he'll be best able to explain why practicing it is a good idea.

I think that there was a period in time (fairly early in my LD career) where this would get me lucid. For some strange feeling the feeling of walking, or putting my feet onto the ground would cause me to become lucid. I think it had something to do with focus I had IWL where I would concentrate on sensations. (Similar to ADA). But not recently, no.

I think it's because in WL you are desensitized to such stimulation since it's near-constant.

Yeah, I once had a dream where I actually walked barefoot on my bedroom floor, and it felt hard and a bit cold.
It was annoyingly realistic, and I was like "...the hell? I must be awake or something".
But I was also positive that I wasn't awake, because my whole bed had rotated 90° to the right of its normal position, and there is absolutely no reason whatsoever for anyone to sneak into my student apartment and move my bed like that - plus the dream also "felt" dreamlike in general.
But that darn floor felt so realistic that it made me really insecure all of a sudden, and then I blacked out and woke up.

Generally, I don't pay attention to how the ground feels in dreams. It's kinda like wearing clothes in dreams. You generally know that you
are wearing clothes, but you don't pay attention to what those clothes are or what color they even are.

I feel like if you aren't looking for it, you're generally not gonna feel it or notice it, unless it has any relevance to the story of your dream.

Sometimes when I become lucid, I like to take off my shoes and walk around barefoot in my dreams. It's nice to walk around outside and feel the cool grass.

Hey,

Thanks for the replies guys!

So from what I understand, I think the problem lies within expectation.

Feeling the ground under our feet is something that our body has become used to, and no longer notices in real life, therefore in dreams too.

However, if I start becoming aware of it while awake, then I'll expect it to happen while dreaming. We all know that expectation rules what happens in dreams, so I'll probably feel the ground while dreaming too.

What I hope is that it will feel different to what I'm getting used to in real life, in order to trigger lucidity. So I'm trusting the idea that "gravity is weird in dreams".

Anyway, I'm starting to think this is maybe not the idea behind Gravity RC, as it's more related to touch than to gravity. I'll PM the Gravity Masters and let you know what they think...