Thread: How can you feel stuff in your dreams ?

Akono put it very well. You have to almost look at it like this:

What is waking life? It is just you being conscious and aware of what is going on around you. Right? Everything gets fed through your senses, your brain, and from there your body/mind reacts accordingly. It stands to reason that inside of a lucid dream your brain is reacting as if it were "waking life" in that things will feel how the brain expects them to feel. Nothing is external, to a point. It's all in your head.

The absolute realism that is possible in LDs is one of the things that is so exhilerating for me. When I first become lucid in a dream I try to anchor by looking, touching, listening etc. Getting down on my knees and rubbing my hand across the grass and having it feel totally real but knowing it is my mind creating it is a mind-blowing experience.