Thread: Actions that the real body does too

The title isn´t the best, but anyway...

What are the common things that you can do in a lucid dream that your body will do too at the same time?

I mean, once in a lucid dream I wondered, do I breathe the "dream air", or better said the "hallucination air", OR does the feeling of breathing come from my body. So can I control the breathing of my real body when in a lucid?

I also noticed that screaming can make my body scream.

So, as said, what are the common things that you can do to make your body do it too?

I feel like when I breathe that I'm actually breathing in real life (I can smell the room I'm in).
I have woken myself up by swallowing in a dream and then actually swallowing in real life.
I've felt like intentional eye movements in dreams have followed over to real life.
I've said things in dreams that have carried over to real life.
Once I moved my hand toward my head for something (non-lucid) and woke up moving my hand toward my head.

Originally Posted by John11

I feel like when I breathe that I'm actually breathing in real life (I can smell the room I'm in).

your room smells ??

Originally Posted by 12g951ad

your room smells ??

it doesn't smell bad, but everything has a smell.
My room just doesn't smell like a crisp winter landscape or a port storage area which are two places I've done the nose RC.

Originally Posted by John11

it doesn't smell bad, but everything has a smell.
My room just doesn't smell like a crisp winter landscape or a port storage area which are two places I've done the nose RC.

but it smells

Originally Posted by 12g951ad

but it smells

Maybe it smells like homemade cookies?

Everything smells. Don't you go into someone else's house and smell their home? Whatever it smells like, it usually has a distinct scent, same with someone's (clean) clothes. Whether that's bad or good is up for the smeller to decide hahaha

Speaking (Happens to few people I know)
Screaming like you said.
Wet dreams although it is passive

It depends on the point in the sleep cycle during which your dream is occurring, as well as your personal physiology. For the most part, none of us are going to be moving a whole lot except for our eyes during REM sleep (remember, REM= rapid eye movement), because of REM atonia. A few of us may sleep walk or talk or otherwise act out dreams during other stages of sleep, since the muscles aren't AS inhibited, or because they have a disorder.

And here's a little sexy time from EWOLD:

"One of the most dramatic demonstrations of the correspondence between physiology and dream activity came from studies of lucid dream sex. In 1983 we undertook a pilot study to determine the extent to which subjectively experienced sexual activity during REM lucid dreaming would be reflected in physiological reponses.
Since women report more orgasms than men do, we began with a female subject. We recorded many different aspects of her physiology that would normally be affected by sexual arousal, including respiratin, heart rate, vaginal muscle tone, and vaginal pulse amplitude. The experiment called for her to make specific eye movement signals at hte following points: when she realized she was dreaming, when she began sexual activity (in the dream), and when she experienced orgasm.
She reported a lucid dream in which she carried out the experimental task exactly as agreed upon. Our analysis revealed significant correspondences between the dream activities she reported in all but one of the physiological measures. During the fifteen-second section of her physiological record which she signaled as the jmoment of orgasm, her vaginal muscle activity, vaginal pulse amplitued, and respiration rate reached their highest values of the night, and they also were considerably elevated in comparison to the rest of the REM period. Contrary to expectation, heart rate increased only slightly." - p.16

Only one woman, but, I trust LaBerge enough to generalize.

"The experiments just reviewed supported the conclusion that the events you experience while asleep and dreaming produce effects on your brain (and, to a lesser extent, your body) much the same as if you were to experience the corresponding events while awake. Additional studies uphold this conclusion. When lucid dreamers hold their breaths or breathe fast in a dream, they really do hold their breaths or pant." p.16

Sleep paralysis is only partial, it doesn't affect muscle activity, breathing and eye movement. If you're running in a dream, you can wake up exhausted

Certainly, breathing isn't one of those, because nose RC don't works... Other than that, never heard that I talk/move while asleep from my sister (who sleeps in the same room) so truly dunno lol

I ejaculated 4 times in one night.. so thats something you can do lol

If you're already aware of this then completely disregard it, but it's a very interesting bit about the body when dreaming.

While in the REM cycle the brain paralyzes the body so that we don't act on our dreams. During REM we don't even snore. There is supposed to be no muscle tension at all during REM, which results in the paralysis. It's a built in safety mechanism which will prevent your body from doing things such as leaping out of bed or going into a handstand while you do so in the dream. An important thing to note, however, is that during REM our brains are emitting Beta waves, similar to the ones emitted while awake. As a result it's incredibly easy to transition from REM to a waking state.

Originally Posted by オースチン

If you're already aware of this then completely disregard it, but it's a very interesting bit about the body when dreaming.

While in the REM cycle the brain paralyzes the body so that we don't act on our dreams. During REM we don't even snore. There is supposed to be no muscle tension at all during REM, which results in the paralysis. It's a built in safety mechanism which will prevent your body from doing things such as leaping out of bed or going into a handstand while you do so in the dream. An important thing to note, however, is that during REM our brains are emitting Beta waves, similar to the ones emitted while awake. As a result it's incredibly easy to transition from REM to a waking state.

hmm then i guess for my next LD were i think i can move my real body if i try i will not care and just run in the dream world anyway to see if i move them in real life....

I'm a believer in anything being possible, but I'd be very interested to know if you do find a way to do this.

In response to the person who mentioned waking up exhausted:
this is attributed to the Beta brain waves that are emitted during REM sleep. You're brain emits Beta waves when you're awake as well. Lucid dreams to often or intensely can result in waking up exhausted simply because you mind feels as if it's been awake even while your body was asleep.

one time i did a reality check in my dream and i could feel my real body doing it, so my nose pinch didnt work that time(it usually does), but i knew i was dreaming anyway so i still became lucid because i could feel two bodies at the one time.

i have sat up and stared at my dad on holiday while still dreaming one time, that scared the crap out of him.

Originally Posted by slash112

one time i did a reality check in my dream and i could feel my real body doing it, so my nose pinch didnt work that time(it usually does), but i knew i was dreaming anyway so i still became lucid because i could feel two bodies at the one time.

i have sat up and stared at my dad on holiday while still dreaming one time, that scared the crap out of him.

LOL that's hilarious.