My LDs don't feel real

[diamondrust]

Whenever I have LD/AP (I call it AP because that's what it feels like to me) they don't feel real. I think I've had about 6 of them so far and none of them felt real. The only part where it feels real is when I'm "floating" out of my body in the very beginning and when I tough my own arm or legs to see if it feels real. The scenery isn't very vivid and when a DC touches me I don't feel anything. I've even tried to lucid sex but I didn't get any feel out of it. It felt like I was humping the air lol. So anyways, why is it that the only time it feels real is the very beginning when I'm floating out and when I'm touching my own body? Everything else doesn't have feeling. Not even flying feels like flying. Help!!

[Illusi0n]

Stop thinking like that and your problem is solved. Recently I had some bad lucids too but fortunately last night I had another lucid and right after doing a RC, I said: "I'm lucid. This is gonna be a awesome mind blowing experience. Let's going crazy" After that I rubbed my hands as strong I could and started doing my personal quests. It was indeed an awesome lucid. Your ideas about a lucid dream can influence dramatical the experience, so the best you can do is to clear your mind of preconceptions about lucid dreams and face them with conviction. Ignore a bad lucid dream. Sometimes it happens to be less interesting than you were expecting but most of them are very "solid" experiences.

[Robot_Butler]

Your next lucid will feel real

[lucidreamsavy]

Everyone gets bad LD's now and then, especially in the beginning. I get more bad ones then I'd like, mostly due to not even thinking about what I want to do, or thinking about stabilizing it or whatever. When you feel something, try to think about what it should feel like, then it will feel like that. That has happened to me before when I was rubbing my hands. They felt like sandpaper! Feel the little details, and you should get good results. On the flip side, just go with what you want to happen. Realism should follow (I hope that sounded right ).

[Philosopher8659]

If they felt real, you would not be very aware. duh. How can you be aware that it is a dream and expect it to be real? You can work on increasing sensory awareness, however, the knowledge that it is not real is what being lucid means. One of the items that I explored in my early days with the state, is just this. I knew that the dream presentation could be perfect--absolutely. I experienced parts of it. Why then is there a deliberate degradation of experience? One of the obvious answers, of course, is survival. If the state were allowed to be as perfect as it can be, some of us at some point in our life, would simply refuse to go on and let ourselves die in bed. The state is not meant to compete with reality, it has an entirely different purpose.

[Belisarius]

I think I sometimes experience something similar. It's a good idea to take a moment to relax and stabilize the world around you when you first go lucid. If you remain calm and aware, the dream will become very vivid and realistic, if you feel excited or stressed, the dream will lose detail and "realness" before slipping away entirely.

[Randoman]

this as happen to me it like i felt my real body in bed and my dream body so it just felt like a visualization

[dreamcatcher81]

If you want all of your physical senses to be available to u in a non physical space just focus on them and they will manifest for you. Studying dream stabilization should help you. namaste

[Erii]

Just stop thinking its not real. Its all in your mind if it feels real or not. Also, APs are supposed to feel very real, and sort of different than an LD.

[ilovefrootloops]

Yea, my dreams are not very vivid either. I'm just trying to be more aware in real life and stimulate the senses while in a dream.

[Raetin]

For me, my normal dreams don't feel very real, but my lucid dreams feel very real, though I hadn't had many of them either. It'll get better over time. Practice makes perfect.