Thread: Muscle building

Now that is just plain foolish. Ask by doing. If you want smoke up your ass, you go to a barbeque and sit on the grill.

How much muscle tone do you get by running, leaping, flying, fighting, in lucid dreams. duh. Arnold slept his way to the Olympia?????????

Let me give a more simpler answer. Even though you did lift weigghts in your dreams, and woke up feeling your arms were sore, it might have been that feeling transferring from your dream to real life, I have had that happen before, so no. You can't build muscles by working out in your dreams

I remember reading some where, that thinking about working out or dreaming about it does actually work out your muscles, not as much as it would in real life but to a certain extent it does. The reason was because since your brain is capable of many things and so strong, it stimulates your muscles as if you were actually working them out. But I'm not really sure what to think about the idea.

Well I had also read that visualization techniques actually had made people stronger..I can't think of a better visualization technique than lucid dreaming.

I wonder if working out in dreams could cause some of the hormonal effects of exercise. Obviously you wouldn't fatigue your muscles, but you could get some of the other benefits. Would your testosterone levels rise after a night of heavy lifting in a dream? Could this lead to extra muscle growth?

I may be wrong but I think stephen laberge says in his books that it works on your muscle memory. And when your sleeping your body is paralysed but your muscles still twitch as you use them I think. So it probably does do something, just not as much as WL?

it is not a foolish idea, it is a great one...you can build yourself emotionally, spiritually, musically, mathematically, etc. so seems like you could do it physically too. And if you feel it building your muscles, then it works.

Can Imaginary Exercise Make You Fit?

there is actually a topic about this somewhere in BD from some time ago. but yes, visualizing working out is almost as effective as actually working out in regards to just strength, I'm sure endurance and whatnot is a different story.

Well havent managed to become lucid the last few days..my dreams seem want to take a path of their own..So I had to go to a WL gym..lol.
But seriously that morning my arms were just as sore as if i went to the gym. I hope some serious researcher would look into this scientifically like actually measuring the muscles and taking into account other factors such as diet ,rest and whatever else involves muscle growth.

I actually read that same article about people visualizing their exercises before they did it, and they got better workouts. It made me wonder if I should try working out in a dream, but I forgot to do it.

I think it could help, but not replace workouts. It will probably make your workouts more effective.

I have woken up with sore arms due to isometrically tensing my arms, which you may be doing in your sleep.

This could save a lot of time, if we could train our bodies to do isometrics while asleep through lucid dreaming.

I bet the Tibetan Monks can do shit like this.