Thread: What's your motivation for lucid dreaming?

Originally Posted by Electronegative

Well I hope your waking life becomes better.. not that dreams aren't important. lol

Oh, it has. It's pretty good actually. It's just that, well, I don't want to get too off-topic into philosophy, but how do we really know it's waking that's "real" and dreaming that isn't? If, in fact, one is "real" and the other isn't? Could they not both be "real" or both be illusion? Why shouldn't dreaming be just as important as waking, then? Just because everyone in waking reality says dreams aren't "real"? They both seem quite real to me while I'm experiencing them, and that's good enough for me.

The practically limitless possibilities of it are what motivate me, as everyone else has said. Even if you had a really crappy day, you can look forward to a fun night of random adventure and exploration when you go to sleep. It's a whole different world, all created in your head. The mystery, the adventure, the chance to live out things I could never do IRL; there's plenty of things to motivate me to LD~

Mostly for Action, fun, or other miscellaneous activities.

But I can't help but be lost in deep thought sometimes.

Mine is experimentation, I have done so many experiments.
Along with that is fighting and exploring, but since I generally do my experiments through fights, its all good and nice.

Mine is simply to do things that we other wise could not do, and to be doing something while asleep. I hate not doing anything, and this includes while sleeping. Even in class I'm always tapping something (though I don't have ADD) but when I do somehting I focus on it until it's done, unless it's homework outside of school

Pure creativity.


Hard to explain through words though.

Originally Posted by Midori

Oh, it has. It's pretty good actually. It's just that, well, I don't want to get too off-topic into philosophy, but how do we really know it's waking that's "real" and dreaming that isn't? If, in fact, one is "real" and the other isn't? Could they not both be "real" or both be illusion? Why shouldn't dreaming be just as important as waking, then? Just because everyone in waking reality says dreams aren't "real"? They both seem quite real to me while I'm experiencing them, and that's good enough for me.

I know your questions are more rhetorical than anything, but I feel like answering them anyway . I've heard the "how do we know what our true reality is" statement a lot before. And i'm no one to tell you what's real to YOU, but there IS a difference between the 2.

During your waking life, or reality as we've come to define it, you are limited by physical laws (quantum mechanics in essence). In the dream world you can fly, die, and even create worlds without limits. These worlds however, are just temporary neurological thoughts produced from the brain that end when your physical (and 'real') body awakes. It's not like you can equally compare a developed physical world with proof of evolution, physical and chemical laws, etc, with a 'world' that science has proved to be a mere activity in the brain.

I hope this doesn't sound close-minded or harsh, but sometimes I feel like people believe what they wish to believe. But as someone that believes in a higher power, I bet people say the same about me...

Sorry for the rant. I'm glad your life's getting pretty good!

Originally Posted by Electronegative

I know your questions are more rhetorical than anything, but I feel like answering them anyway . I've heard the "how do we know what our true reality is" statement a lot before. And i'm no one to tell you what's real to YOU, but there IS a difference between the 2.

I absolutely agree there's a difference. One is way more consistent than the other.

It's not like you can equally compare a developed physical world with proof of evolution, physical and chemical laws, etc, with a 'world' that science has proved to be a mere activity in the brain.

Ah, but your argument uses as a premise the idea that one's experience of waking reality is based on some physical, objective world. If you start with the assumption that everything you experience might be mere illusion (e.g. you might be in the Matrix), then science doesn't really prove anything, because it's based on observation and experimentation and such. In other words, we're both starting from different assumptions, so it's not surprising we've come to different conclusions.

I hope this doesn't sound close-minded or harsh, but sometimes I feel like people believe what they wish to believe.

I totally agree with you there.

Sorry for the rant. I'm glad your life's getting pretty good!

Thanks! And don't feel sorry for the rant. I really enjoy discussing stuff like this. Although maybe starting a new thread would be a good idea, before we derail this one too much. I would have started a new thread already, but I had an attack of lazy.

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For me, I want to want to start getting better at stabilizing my lucids, And then going to different places and exploring. Talking to dream characters and asking them whats the meaning of life. I want to be able to lift up buildings with telekinesis and and explode them with a ki blast from Dragonball Z, I also want to be able to visit my favorite places from anime and video games. And fight bosses from Games. What I really want to do most is sit in a huge field of grass and look up at the sky and moon and stars. I'm starting to get used to having vivid dreams.

playing God. i want to be able to do ANYTHING, and create my own world with my own rules, where i call the shots.

Originally Posted by Electronegative

Can dreams really trigger release of adrenaline? I always thought that feeling was a false impression from the brain. that's cool

I'm assuming they can do something along those levels, since many people sometimes wake up from nightmares or exciting dreams with a rapid heartbeat. But even if dreams don't physically cause adrenaline to be released, I can definitely feel intense adrenaline in a lucid dream if I'm flying at high speeds.

Art and experience. I have a pretty good real life. Now I'm pushing the boundaries. I'd like to see things that surpass natural beauty. And eventually, I will write music about it.

I want to understand myself better and to go on epic fantasy adventures ^_^

I want to just see how my friends are in dreams, chill with them, do drugs, just basic everyday activities in my own world. Exploring is fun too.

Why would you want to do things that you already do in real life?

I am not really sure what the highest possibilities of Lucidity are, ultimately I wish to use it as a tool to improve the way I can visualise things and get clear pictures in my mind. Art and design is a big part of my life so this would be amazing, I really want to be able to create amazing things to share with the world! Does anyone have first hand experience with improving ability like this? It would be awesome to get to the point where i could copy a picture from my mind onto paper through sketching. Lucid dream an awesome scenario and hold it in my mind so vivid and clear that I can draw it perfectly.
Aside from that I want to just do totally incredible things and conduct experiments at the same time

also overcoming fears is something I want to do in it.

Originally Posted by Raetin

Why would you want to do things that you already do in real life?

Because it would be cool to see how different everything is. I did that in one lucid dream. I went to my school and it was so different but it was cool.
The cafeteria was smallish, there is a random gift shop in the school, it was pretty cool.
I need a damn lucid again