Hi everyone,

First off, apologies if this is in the wrong area of the site but I was keen to get responses from the entire community here, so I thought this would be the best place for it.

Around 5 or 6 years ago I started writing a children's novel (for ages 10-15 or thereabouts) which was set in a dream world. I got so far on it and then I sort of lost interest for a while until a year or so ago when I watched Inception, and then I realised that I was kind of on the right track with what I was doing. Now, coming back to it, I'm obviously a little annoyed I didn't carry it on as thanks to Christopher Nolan it now looks like a stolen idea!

Anyway, I'm going to rewrite it and this time I'd like to get some views and inspiration from those who actually experience lucid dreams themselves. It's a fiction novel, so a lot of it is fantasy, but I want to get as many realistic aspects of lucid dreaming in to it as I can, and therefore I need your help. I myself have only experienced a lucid dream once and that was some time ago, and since then I've really struggled to achieve it again. Hopefully I'll get some great advice and tips here also.

I have some general questions and would appreciate it if you could take the time to answer some of them for me? I have an absolute load, but thought I'd start off with some general questions first. Here goes...

1) How do other people in your dream react to your presence when you're aware you're in a lucid dream?

2) How long are your lucid dreams, and how long do you think it's possible to stay in one?

3) Can you change the surroundings in your dream, and how much control over the dream do you have?

4) Are you able to sleep or dream while IN your lucid dream?

5) If your lucid dreams are a place you feel happier or more confident how does this make you feel when you awake? Happy or sad?

6) Is it possible to go back to the same lucid dream, or recreate the dream when you obtain lucidity?

7) Is it possible to relive a past memory in a lucid dream?


Like I said, I have so many questions to ask, but thought it best to see if people are willing to help first off. And again, I apologise if this is in the wrong place.

Thanks!