Thread: whats it like?

This is a profound qustion. In each dimension of reality; waking, dreaming, astral, etc there are senses yet they take on different aspects. In the higest dimensions there are sublte aspects the of senses I am told, in an unmanifest state. In dreaming everythng is better from my experience. Beyond that is beyond me. Yoga and Tantra have a cosmology that describes the evolution of the elements and the senses from the ONE eternal reality to earth consciousness. Look it up. If you can't find anything read the book Tattwa Shuddhi, the Tantric Path of Inner Purification. It talks alot about the chakras, senses, and sublte senses and evolution of being, etc.

Hi gugvg
I was just going back and re-reading all the journal entries I made the mornings after a lucid dream, and most of them include some kind of reference to "I can't believe how real it is." While in an LD, for me anyway, everything is as real as it is in real life. While flying, I feel the wind in my hair; if I land on wet grass, I can feel the temperature of the grass and how it feels between my toes, etc. Really, the only way I knew in my LD's that I was actually dreaming was by doing RC's (mainly the nose check) every few minutes. Beyond that, it's as real as can be. Hope this helps...

Originally Posted by happyChappy

Hi gugvg
I was just going back and re-reading all the journal entries I made the mornings after a lucid dream, and most of them include some kind of reference to "I can't believe how real it is." While in an LD, for me anyway, everything is as real as it is in real life. While flying, I feel the wind in my hair; if I land on wet grass, I can feel the temperature of the grass and how it feels between my toes, etc. Really, the only way I knew in my LD's that I was actually dreaming was by doing RC's (mainly the nose check) every few minutes. Beyond that, it's as real as can be. Hope this helps...

thank you that answers my question dead on . And thank you too 156curses that answers the another question I had

It doesn't always feel the same. The more you focus on certain sensations, the more intense/apparent they will be. Sometimes they feel as real as being awake, and sometimes you can notice differences. For instance, I've had a dream in which I noticed that the colors I was seeing were not like the ones I see in the waking world, and were predominantly shades of orange and red. I've also done things that affected senses that wouldn't normally be affected by the thing that I am doing. Once I heard something that left a metallic taste in my mouth.