Not a stupid question at all! |
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I'm sorry if someone's already asked this, I just thought it was interesting. Is it possible to gain complete conscious control of your dream but still accept it as if it was really happening? As in, not realizing it's a dream? Like, if you were, say, dreaming you were a cat, you'd really believe you were a cat, but you would be able to move and stuff. Is that what "low-level lucidity" is? |
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Not a stupid question at all! |
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That's actually a very good question. Dream control and lucid dreaming are not the same thing. It is true that they usually go hand-in-hand but, that's not always the case. So it's completely possible to have very good dream control with no lucidity. It's also possible to be very lucid and have no control. |
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Wow... I never thought of the Senoi ^_^ I read about them once, I think they're from Malaysia. Thanks for replying! |
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never experianced this myself but it sounds interesting. ive had dreams where i was aware i was dreaming but still thought it was real (weird huh?) never had controll of it though |
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"everything in life must come to an end, preferably in a humongous explosion"
I once knew that what I was experiencing was not real, but my mind came up with another explanation. Somehow, I thought I was daydreaming in bed before I went to sleep. At least for a couple minutes until I decided that that was a completely idiotic idea and realized it was a dream. |
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Lucid Tasks:
Beat my subconcious senseless with a pointed stick
Meet Yoda, and get him to teach me the ways of the Force
Find out what a Strappleberry and a Masafuchi Nut look like
I've had lucid dreams before where I was conscious of the dream, and actually tried to take active control over it, but was unable to! Like I couldn't move when I tried to control it, I was sort of frozen, almost like a glitch. |
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I never have complete control even in lucids. |
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-LD Count since rejoining in Dec. 2009: 21
No dream goals at the moment...just flying and letting stuff happen is kinda fun, and it's hard to motivate myself to try LDing lately.
When speaking of dream control, what's being referred to is an element of conscious control, as opposed to being carried along with what your dream mind determines. For example, when you learn that you should always face your fears in dreams then face a demon that's trying to attack you, you are exercising dream control because you consciously decided to do that. Even though you may not realise that you're in a dream, you consciously remembered that you are to face monsters that try to harm you. |
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This is exactly what happened to me last night, and i was trying to figure out what it was. This thread had perfect timing lol Thanks |
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I've been wondering about this myself... Lately when I dream everything becomes incredibly vivid, and I am "aware", but I don't realise I'm dreaming and assert control. I usually ask myself: "How in the crap did I get here? Where is here?" |
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Lucid Dreams: 1 (DILD on accident)
Yes, good question! |
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Habilities: fly, pass through things, taste, touch, pain, dare, hear music, breath under water, heal, wake up...
Wish to: Summon people, teleport/switch environment, read a long text, fly higher than about 1 kilometer, fly quicker than about 200 km/h, 360 vision, freeze time, time travel, transform into beasts, go to the moon, go into deep space, fire portals...
This has been happening a lot to me lately. |
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I have those sometimes. And then I wake up and laugh (or sob, depending on the dream) at my acceptance of controlled luck. |
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Abraxas
Originally Posted by OldSparta
I had my first lucid today and I had control of it, but I still beleived that certain people were actually real. But I was still lucid because I decided when to wake up. |
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Congratulations! Don't worry about the "thinking dream characters were real" part. Believe it or not, that happens to most lucid dreamers in most of their lucid dreams. The ones where you explicitly know that the world around you, the people around you, the sights, sounds, sensations and tastes are all constructs of your own mind are the minority of lucid dreams. Those are among the highest level. |
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That's strange, I always assumed that everyone had complete control over their own actions. I have complete and utter control over my thought processes and physical actions in dreams. The only problem is that I accept it as reality. |
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I tried to make a classification system that encompasses this if you wanna see it =) The link is in my sig. |
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