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      Lightbulb Restrictions on abilities while lucid??

      Is there anything you can't do when lucid?

      For example, running super fast. Would your legs look like roadrunner's legs when he darts off, or would it just be normal leg movement but you would be moving uncommonly fast?

      What happens when you die in your dream while lucid?

      Can you turn yourself something with a non-humanoid form, i.e., a piano?

      Can you speed up/slow down dream time?

      Can you get sleepy/tired?

      Can you create a sense (in addition to taste, touch, smell, hearing, and sight)?

      Could you clone yourself, and BE each one, having different thoughts, perceiving different senses, and doing different things?

      Could you study for exams even though you haven't memorized the textbooks or your old tests?

      Most importantly, if you had an experiment (while still awake) to hook 2 people up to electrodes or whatever and transmit their thoughts and brainwaves to each other, and if they both became lucid, could they meet each other ? If so/not so, would they have actually SEEN what the other person did in that OTHER PERSON'S dream? (like in a first-person shooter game in 2-player mode, when you see what each other does from your own perspective)
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      As far as I know, you can do pretty much anything you want within a dream. It gets tricky when you try to use your dream body in ways that your waking body wouldn't be able to manage though.(Like turning into a piano) I remember transforming into a wolf once. When I looked at myself I was a wolf, and when I ran I had it's speed and point of view, but it still felt like I was a hunched over human being pretending to be a wolf.

      It helps me to come up with rules for my dream worlds, like "I can set that building on fire, but only if I wave my hand like this." So that it feels more 'real'.

      Most of the answers to these questions will vary from person to person I think. A few, like the question of sharing a dream, is already a widely debated subject in the scientific community. You'll just have to try them out for yourself. I wouldn't try studying for your exams while dreaming though, just in case.

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      Running fast: if you expect your legs to look like roadrunner's legs, they will.

      Die in dream: whatever you expect to happen will happen. If you expect to go to heaven, you'll go to whatever your mind expects heaven to be like. If you think you'll cease to exist, I couldn't tell you what'll happen.

      Piano: if you can imagine it, you can do it. Your experience would probably be limited since pianos can't see.

      Time alteration: You can slow down time in a sense, e.g. making everything go really slow compared to you. I believe it's commonly accepted that you can't slow down "real time," or in other words dream for 15 hours but only have slept 6. Some people do say their dreams feel like they take longer than the time they're asleep.

      Creating a sense: if you can think of it. Some people who believe in astral projection claim that on the astral planes you can sense things that your mind can't understand and it really messes with you.

      Cloning: a book I have suggested things like this. It would be quite an exercise of the imagination, and possible if you could imagine what it would be like (and maybe even if you couldn't).

      Studying: You might be able to if you've looked at all the pages you'd need to read. Your subconscious can remember stuff like that really well, but some people say you can't read in dreams (the text gets messed up). I haven't found that to be the case, but I still wouldn't depend on dreams to get good grades.

      Shared dreams: Some people would say you don't need the electrodes to accomplish that. Some would say it's impossible no matter what. No one can really prove it either way, but it's always exciting to try.

      Basically you can do anything you can imagine if you have good control and visualization power. There are very few limitations in lucid dreaming.

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      Yeah, but...

      While it is seemingly infinite, you are still limited by your belief in your abilities and how much psychic energy/concentration/whatever you have at the moment.

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      If you can imagine, you can do it. The sky's not even the limit. What you expect to happen will happen. Lucid dreaming is all in your head. It's all mental. If you expect to fail, you will. If you expect to succeed, you will.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Super FZL View Post
      If you can imagine, you can do it. The sky's not even the limit. What you expect to happen will happen. Lucid dreaming is all in your head. It's all mental. If you expect to fail, you will. If you expect to succeed, you will.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Super FZL View Post
      If you can imagine, you can do it. The sky's not even the limit. What you expect to happen will happen. Lucid dreaming is all in your head. It's all mental. If you expect to fail, you will. If you expect to succeed, you will.
      yes this is true but if you expect something to happen that you've never truly experienced, then how will you percieve it? to me, dreams are you walking through your subconsious. if you try to do something that, subconciously, you don't recognize either you won't be able to do it, or your subconsious will automatically fill in the blanks.

      so theoretically, yes, you could do everyone of those things that you listed if you imagined it in an LD but your senses (smelling touching seeing etc) might feel something else. i think this makes sense..
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      The answer to all your questions is no.

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      Is there anything you can't do when lucid?
      Probably. Our imaginations are limited.

      For example, running super fast. Would your legs look like roadrunner's legs when he darts off, or would it just be normal leg movement but you would be moving uncommonly fast?
      Any of those. Or just about anything else you can think of. Many people get limitations on moving very quickly because their brains have to generate the scenery they pass. Deliberately blurring it can help, or you can just get around it by teleporting.

      What happens when you die in your dream while lucid?
      Whatever you think will happen. Sometimes things fade and the dream ends; other times it continues with you as a ghost, or as if the death didn't happen.

      Can you turn yourself something with a non-humanoid form, i.e., a piano?
      Yes.

      Can you speed up/slow down dream time?
      Yes, within the limits of your own ability to think quickly enough.

      Can you get sleepy/tired?
      Yes. This is very common and usually happens when you are not very deeply asleep and sensations from your body are filtering through to your mind.

      Can you create a sense (in addition to taste, touch, smell, hearing, and sight)?
      Many people have a mental sense of their surroundings, telepathy with dream characters, and a vague sense of time that tells them when their dream is about to end.

      Could you clone yourself, and BE each one, having different thoughts, perceiving different senses, and doing different things?
      Limited by your ability to think of all those things at once, yes.

      Could you study for exams even though you haven't memorized the textbooks or your old tests?
      You could try, but the only things you can take to your dream world are the things already in your mind. However, dreaming in general--REM sleep, both lucid and not--has the benefit of increasing recall of things you memorized earlier.

      Most importantly, if you had an experiment (while still awake) to hook 2 people up to electrodes or whatever and transmit their thoughts and brainwaves to each other, and if they both became lucid, could they meet each other ? If so/not so, would they have actually SEEN what the other person did in that OTHER PERSON'S dream? (like in a first-person shooter game in 2-player mode, when you see what each other does from your own perspective)
      Probably not. People's brainwaves are too individual to be easily read by anyone else.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Clouded View Post

      It helps me to come up with rules for my dream worlds, like "I can set that building on fire, but only if I wave my hand like this." So that it feels more 'real'.
      I do this all the time. My favorite trick I did was when I wanted to turn into a girl. I touched this dirty rag on a chair and said, "now that I touched the magic rag it will work." It did.
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      I can't fly piece of crap dream. I'm fully aware and conscience, totally aware of dreaming, but i just can't do it. I'm going to try and trick myself into doing it. I like your dirty rag idea rain.
      I make up for this though by never having to walk, i just seem to teleport to imporant parts of the scene, i just hope not to think about it while i dream or i'll stop doing it. As for your question on dream sharing, thats one of my main goals once i can become lucid regularly, to draw up a door in chalk and step into my girlfriends dreams.
      goodluck to anyone who turns into a piano, sounds like fun.

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      I agree with the enterer.
      You can do anything you want,
      but it's hard and difficult to do,
      because your subconcious is still attaching you to
      the real world, saying this is NOT possible,
      it's like a block, if you can remove the block
      of the real world and erase all common knowledge and sense,
      then anything is possible.

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