How Realistic!!!!!

[Hacker4real]

I have been reading through some threads and have come to see that many of the LDers do up to 50 RCs during the day I am stunned. I want to ask people who do this, are your dreams this realistic??? I envy you people I mean sometimes you can't tell you are in a dream. But I could always tell I am in RL, I mean the way everything looks is so different to a dream. So people please tell me do Your dreams are this Reallistic does everything look the same as in real life. If so please Share Experiences. By the way Please also drop some Commentaries on how to make dreams more realistic. Thank You in advance for Sharing.

[Higurashi]

Woah woah woah GRAMMAR CHECK. Ok, um...well doing alot of RC's during the day doesn't really make a dream more realistic. It does however make it more likely that you'll become lucid.

[Hacker4real]

LMao I wrote fast cause I had to leave, I will Recheck later.;-p

[Oneironaut Zero]

I have been reafing through some threads and hav come to see that many of the LDers do up to 50 RCs during the day I am stunned. I want to ask people who do this are your dreams this realistic I envy you people I mean sometimes you can't tell you are in a dream, but I could always tell I am in RL I mean the way everything looks is so different to a dream. So people please tell me do Your dreams are this Reallistic does everything look the same as in real life. If so please Share Experiences. In a word: "Yes." I don't do RC's like I used to (but I will do them occasionally), but still, most of my dreams are completely realistic. They look and feel just like real life. Sometimes I will just have this nagging "feeling" that I'm dreaming, but even when I suspect I am, I can't find any sort of clue, within the dream. It takes testing my state to truly know whether I am or not, and sometimes things are so real that I can go through 5 reality checks - while in the dream - before on of them actually works. Dreaming is pretty much like waking world consciousness: There are levels to clarity. When you first wake up in the morning, you could still feel like you're dreaming. You're groggy and you're inattentive. And at other times of the day, you can be full of adrenaline (like after a run) and you can be so attentive to the world that you are sure, without a shadow of a doubt, that you are awake. This is a lot like the difference between vivid dreams and non-vivid dreams. There are plenty of different levels of awareness.

[Higurashi]

LMao I wrote fast cause I had to leave, I will Recheck later.;-p I was just kidding about the grammar ^.^ Also, yes, my dreams do seem as realistic as real life to me.

[Shift]

I have been reading through some threads and have come to see that many of the LDers do up to 50 RCs during the day I am stunned. I want to ask people who do this, are your dreams this realistic??? I envy you people I mean sometimes you can't tell you are in a dream. But I could always tell I am in RL, I mean the way everything looks is so different to a dream. No it doesn't, otherwise you wouldn't be on here learning to lucid dream So with that in mind, yea RC ftw.

[Binsk]

Yeah, dreams can be just as realistic as in real life. (If you lie down in the grass you will be able to feel every piece poking your back, and you will be able to see it sway gently in the wind) So Lucid Dreams are absolutely worth the effort. As for making the Lucid Dream more realistic, a common way is to touch things. When in the dream start feeling things, smelling things, and even tasting things. Really focus on the sensations and it will boost the clarity in moments.

[Hacker4real]

Yeah, dreams can be just as realistic as in real life. (If you lie down in the grass you will be able to feel every piece poking your back, and you will be able to see it sway gently in the wind) So Lucid Dreams are absolutely worth the effort. As for making the Lucid Dream more realistic, a common way is to touch things. When in the dream start feeling things, smelling things, and even tasting things. Really focus on the sensations and it will boost the clarity in moments. Wowww This is really impresive I envy all of Ya. My dreams are not nearly as realistic I wish I could make them this realistic I am hoping for more people to share ways of making dreams more realistic thanks for sharing.Really I am impressed.

[Thamber]

When I was younger my dreams were very, very vivid and "real" with sound, smell touch color etc.. . But in the last few years most are kinda fuzzy or odd and I am aware that something is "off" but mostly I do not become totally lucid. I started here on the 10th and have had one lucid and one almost lucid ( yes I think there are variations of lucid) and they were not as vivid and real life as most in my past. Idk if its the stress Ive been under or what but they definitly dont feel as real as they used to so I know what you mean thats kinda what clued me in to the lucid I had.Everything was slightly fuzzy, like not wearing glasses and i kenw something was off and i read here about RC so i did one...Im pretty sure I cant hover in the real world so I knew I was dreaming but all through the lucid dream I was amazed at the unreality of it..it just felt like a very poor imitation of life and if I tried to make it more real I began to slip away from lucidity. I am assuming this gets better with practice ..I hope it does.

[Hacker4real]

When I was younger my dreams were very, very vivid and "real" with sound, smell touch color etc.. . But in the last few years most are kinda fuzzy or odd and I am aware that something is "off" but mostly I do not become totally lucid. I started here on the 10th and have had one lucid and one almost lucid ( yes I think there are variations of lucid) and they were not as vivid and real life as most in my past. Idk if its the stress Ive been under or what but they definitly dont feel as real as they used to so I know what you mean thats kinda what clued me in to the lucid I had.Everything was slightly fuzzy, like not wearing glasses and i kenw something was off and i read here about RC so i did one...Im pretty sure I cant hover in the real world so I knew I was dreaming but all through the lucid dream I was amazed at the unreality of it..it just felt like a very poor imitation of life and if I tried to make it more real I began to slip away from lucidity. I am assuming this gets better with practice ..I hope it does. Yeah me too My dreams are pathethic.

[Binsk]

Yes, the level of clarity becomes better with practice. (And Lucid Dreams are usually more detailed than regular dreams) But even so, you will still get those dreams which are fuzzy and dim, but since you are in control of your dreams you just need to learn how to control the clarity. (Of which the difficulty varies from person to person) I seem to have no problem having vivid clear dreams, (Or changing them from blurry to vivid) but that is just me, I am sure it is more difficult and requires more practice from others.

[DreamQueen]

Hi Hacker4real, I think I'm the member you are referring to who does 50 RCs each day!! To answer your question, as Oneironaut said, "yes". Totally. Without very reliable reality checking I do not stand a snowball's chance in hell of recognising that I am dreaming. In fact, at times I've had a reality check show that I'm dreaming and I still can't accept it. I used to use the nose pinch test and there was one time when I stood there in my dream with my nose pinched and I was able to breathe and I stood there for ages wondering why I could breathe when this was definitely real life! My dreams are so real and vivid that hardly any of the standard and typical reality checks work for me unless I really apply an enormous amount of mental effort and even then they sometimes won't work e.g. my hands look 100% normal right down to the six tiny prongs on my engagement ring, gravity behaves normally, when I try to put my hand into objects I just knock against them etc. Sure it's great to have such incredibly vivid dreams but the cost is that it does become very difficult indeed to discern betweens dreams and reality. I take about one full minute to do each RC in RL and every time I do them I'm aware that even though I think I know it's real, I also think I know it's real when I'm dreaming! As for enhancing vividness, I think it will happen naturally as you become more adept at lucid dreaming. One great thing to do though is to make your number one lucid goal to be simply to stop and take it all in. Stand still and look around your environment and really look. I find this enhances both the vividness of the dreamscape and my own lucidity level. HTH

[Hacker4real]

Hi Hacker4real, I think I'm the member you are referring to who does 50 RCs each day!! To answer your question, as Oneironaut said, "yes". Totally. Without very reliable reality checking I do not stand a snowball's chance in hell of recognising that I am dreaming. In fact, at times I've had a reality check show that I'm dreaming and I still can't accept it. I used to use the nose pinch test and there was one time when I stood there in my dream with my nose pinched and I was able to breathe and I stood there for ages wondering why I could breathe when this was definitely real life! My dreams are so real and vivid that hardly any of the standard and typical reality checks work for me unless I really apply an enormous amount of mental effort and even then they sometimes won't work e.g. my hands look 100% normal right down to the six tiny prongs on my engagement ring, gravity behaves normally, when I try to put my hand into objects I just knock against them etc. Sure it's great to have such incredibly vivid dreams but the cost is that it does become very difficult indeed to discern betweens dreams and reality. I take about one full minute to do each RC in RL and every time I do them I'm aware that even though I think I know it's real, I also think I know it's real when I'm dreaming! As for enhancing vividness, I think it will happen naturally as you become more adept at lucid dreaming. One great thing to do though is to make your number one lucid goal to be simply to stop and take it all in. Stand still and look around your environment and really look. I find this enhances both the vividness of the dreamscape and my own lucidity level. HTH Wowww You guessed right I read Your thread and decided to make this one because I got really impressed. Thanks for Your adviced, I see why having dreams be this realistic could be a pain but there is more good to it than You may think, is like having the power to control things in real life if it looks so real. For example if you fly in a dream it would feel like flying in real life because of the clarity of the dream. I bet that's amazing. Thanks For The Advice.: