Thread: If you've not felt it in waking life, the sensation in an LD is inaccurate...

Sensations in a lucid dream are based on past experiences, expectations, and come from similar sensations you might have had. I had a friend of mine ask me what dream sex was like, he was still a virgin so I told him I had no idea. He had a LD not to long after, in which he had sex with some girl he liked. He told me it felt amazing, even though he's never had sex in waking life, so how would the mind create such a similar feeling? It's amazing to me what the mind can do.

-G'day

Originally Posted by rynkrt3

Sensations in a lucid dream are based on past experiences, expectations, and come from similar sensations you might have had. I had a friend of mine ask me what dream sex was like, he was still a virgin so I told him I had no idea. He had a LD not to long after, in which he had sex with some girl he liked. He told me it felt amazing, even though he's never had sex in waking life, so how would the mind create such a similar feeling? It's amazing to me what the mind can do.

-G'day

Well, I think it's because the preconception is that sex is amazing, and it's probable that this friend has previously masturbated, right? Tbh, it's probably better in a virgin's mind than in a non-virgin's.

In answer to this question, it is partly true and not.

This is because we partly experience things and partly don't. If you had never tried icecream before, but I showed you a picture of it. Have you experienced it? Partly, yes, through visual perception. We would usually argue that we haven't experienced it. This is important.

Many experiences are composed of previous other experiences. Consider the icecream example that you've merely looked at. It's Christmas time, and you're throwing snowballs around, but for some reason you've yet to try icecream. Conceptually, someone tells you that icecream can feel like snow, and it is just as cold. That covers two of the basic touch senses, coldness and texture.

You are then teased by your 'friends' who have masses of icecream. They say you can smell it, but you can't touch it nor taste it. You smell vanilla. At this point, despite experiencing icecream in many senses, if you were to tell someone you have yet to taste icecream, they will say that you haven't tried it. It is because the usual sense to experience icecream is taste.

Annoyed that you've not 'properly' tried it, you induce a W.I.L.D that night and try it for yourself. You will accurately see its shape and colour, feel its coldness and texture in your mouth, and have whiffs of vanilla as it enters. Taste and smell are intricately linked, and its taste should be easy to create.

So I would argue that you can experience something in an LD you haven't in real life, so long as you've conceptually experienced it, experienced something similar, and experienced it through the non-dominant senses for that item. A conceptual and visual experience is necessary otherwise you couldn't even fathom the item in front of you.

Ugh, long. >_>