Thread: Dream barriers

How weird. Is this related to time, or space? (As in, this happens after a certain time dreaming or it happens in certain zones?)

I am not sure if it happens after a certain amount of time. I lose all sense of time while I'm dreaming. I can estimate the total length of the dream upon waking up, but that is about it. It doesn't happen when trying to do anything in particular or in any certain "zones". It just kinda happens when I'm in the middle of trying to do something which is why I view it as a barrier. It's a barrier preventing me from completing whatever task I'm in the middle of when it happens. Usually by the time it passes I forget what I was trying to do and the dream takes a new route afterwards.

The only thing that seems to unpause my dream and allow me to continue with my lucid dream is to stop trying to do anything and let the dream sit in a paused state for a minute or so. But I feel like that is just wasting valuable dream time. I'm trying to find a way to prevent this from happening altogether.

I've hit something what could be described as a "barrier" too. It was caused by the belief that I was in some way mentally imprisoned by the place I was in. So I got the hell out of there and I was fine.
I could have simply told myself that it doesn't matter where I am, I can do anything. But at the time I didn't think about it.

The thing is, if there is an idea in your head about not being able to do something, it can sort of take over. Best way to stop it is to prevent it from happening in the first place. Best way to do that is to simply learn that you can have full control always. You simply need to remember that, and remind yourself of it the whole time in the dream.


As for feeling your real body move, that's happened to be before. It was a very strange feeling. I got rid of that by standing still, and re-gaining a bit of focus by reminding myself that I'm dreaming and such. Just gathered my thoughts for a moment.

I've also had some similar stuff happen. It usually happens to me when I try to fly really high, or to a place I can't remember very well. It usually manifests with me being unable to move past a certain point, and the area looking faded, darker, and "dead". Another thing that's happened to me which is sort of related is I come up with an idea to go somewhere, but then I get a subconscious response telling me that I shouldn't go there.

This has never happened to me, but there can't be a certain area you can't go, all of your dream is a vivid projection. I just think your subconscious is screwing with you, THAT...happens a lot.