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I lurk, never talk. I’m posting here because I think all of you would have some interesting insights into this strange variation of dream I’ve had. Many of you have all had much more experience and understanding than me. When I’m in doubt, I turn to someone more competent.

I call them Second Life dreams. Please don’t mistake my meaning, they aren’t dreams about the virtual world, rather, they are so named because of a feeling that comes over me that I can do anything I want. That everything is possible because this isn’t a hard reality. The people in it are varied in appearance and purpose, from the normal to the fantastic but all of them have this casual, fun, summer day vibe to them. The environments are clean and ordered. The furniture, equipment and other man made items have the feel of both careful placement and the result of a wild imagination. I feel that if I were to fly, I would notice sharp and sudden changes of environment as I go across the land, forests suddenly becoming beaches, or coastal towns, or a snow laden mountains. As you can see, very much like Second Life. Let me make it clear, it is like it, but it is never about the game. I am convinced of this, even after analyzing them. The dreams are similar to it, but feel and act like so much more.


These dreams are wonderful to me. The ordered and comforting landscapes are something akin to paradise to me. The feeling that I can do anything is an incredible high (as you know already) I wake up from these dreams feeling fantastic, if not a smidge disappointed.

Here is the rub, I know that anything is possible, the world is welcoming to me, the world is obviously made, and I am aware that this is not reality. But it never enters my head once, not once, that this might be a dream. The thought that this is a dream never occurs to me in these. Ever. In fact, I’ve noticed that my few lucid dreams have a different feel to them all together.

What can you make of that? Is it a half-lucid dream? Or just a good dream? Is this any mark of progress as far as learning to regularly lucid dream? If I could marry these with my lucid dreams, I may run the risk of never wanting to awake again.

Hmm. Just think about through the day how you CAN'T do anything that you want. You can't change reality. When you have this dream of yours, and you realize you can manipulate it, you should be able to realize that, since you can't do it in real life, you must be dreaming.

There are varying levels of lucidity. You can know you're dreaming but have no control, and you can have control over your dreams without really understand that you're dreaming. Though If you didn't even think about the fact that you were dreaming, then it wasn't really a lucid dream.

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You can't change reality. When you have this dream of yours, and you realize you can manipulate it, you should be able to realize that, since you can't do it in real life, you must be dreaming.

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I'm very glad you said that, because it has brought my attention to two things that may be important.

A) while I realize I can do anything, the feeling is not so much that I can will anything to happen (like I got the few times I was lucid) but that anything is possible. That what ever desires or notions I have are possible within the rules of the world. An example would be that if I had the notion to fly, I wouldn't just will it like in lucid dreams, but might find a physical school on teaching it, or might actually acquire the ability from a vending machine. The point being that what I want to do is gotten from the world around me, not my own will.

B) I never really manipulate anything in these dreams. Not that I can recall (these dreams are vivid, I can recall a great deal) Oh I can talk to the people in them, pick up and interact with objects...but I never set out to do those fantastic things which I want to do in lucid dreams. In the dreams I set out to do them, or I go find them, but never make it. To be honest, I don't seem to be in a huge hurry to, its like the place is so nice that I just take my time and enjoy the journey.