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[DayTripper]

Good news everyone, last night i actually remembered a dream. horray! (first dream i actually remembered in weeks, baby steps). but i have a querstion, which is sort of like a question. when you become lucid, how real is everything? is it like... i could be lucid right now or is everything not quite as coherent? how real does stuff feel, taste, look, sound, and smell? is it so real that it's hard to convince yourself that the laws of physics don't actually exist? also, how... awake are you? would you be able to do complex math problems or is it only to the extent of realizing that birds don't swim? thanks

[Ain]

I've heard of people doing complex math problems in their dreams— somebody on this forum said they studied for a high-level math test in a lucid dream. I think the clarity of the dream depends on lucid dreaming experience, and on recall (because if you can't remember certain details, it's like they never existed.) Lastly, many birds do swim. Penguins can't even fly and barely can walk, and many seabirds catch their food mainly by diving for it.

[Damascus]

well hi! good for you, the hardest part of any journey is taking the first few steps! anyway, a lucid dream is as real as if you were awake, not at all like normal dreams where you go to sleep and in the morning you have a memory of one. It is real in terms of vividness, but the senses are dulled. Now this is hard to explain, but even though your senses are dulled, they are not totally gone (you can feel real orgasms in a LD ) and you do not notice that they are dulled at the time because your mind kind of fills in the cracks and holes, smoothing the edges so that you dont notice these impairments. well, its a experience as real as reality, yet the realness differs depending on your skill. some things can make the LD more real (try yelling INCREASE LUCIDITY in a LD) and some can make it duller (distracted by something shiny in the dream, may throw ou back into a normal dream of false awakening) you cant be told about it, you seriously have to feel it, its like trying to explain what the sky looks like to somewone who has been born blind.

[DayTripper]

I heard having sex in a lucid dream was impossible because of the intensity. like... you'd get waken up.(in the previous post you said you can feel orgasms)

[Ain]

lol I just came from a synchronisity topic to this http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5822 topic about dream sex to here to see who responded. Crazy synchronisity! EDIT: Oh, btw, dream sex is obviously not impossible if you read the linked topic