Thread: LDing things you've never experienced in RL

Hi, I'm kinda new here, this is my first post.
I heared about LDing about a year ago, I only had one, it lasted aboutless than half a minute. I flied, and that was it. I kinda lost interest in it, but now I'm back at it.

Anyway, I'm wondering about what things can you do in an LD? can you do something you've never done in real life? how would it feel then? If you've never experienced it, how would your brain know what it feels like?
Has anyone tried doing such a thing? like I dunno, dive into water (in a LD) without ever having done it in real life?

I'm pretty sure most of you who did have LDs had flied .. and I've done it too, but I don't really remember how I felt in the dream.
How can you feel it in the dream if you've never felt it in RL? You can't fly in real life ..

For those who did fly (or did anything they haven't done in RL), do you think it felt right? I mean, the same way it would feel in RL?

Does the brain kind of know already how everything feels?

I happened to have a lot of dreams where I fall from some high place (not LDs), and I wake up right before I hit the ground ... my whole body feels shaken, as if I was really falling, and I feel like I've just landed on the bed!
I also once dreamed about being shot with a bullet in my hand, I wok right away, and I felt like something just hit my hand.

So, can you do things while LDing even if you've never experienced them in real life?

If you had such things, please share them!

the more one dreams, the more normal it seems to be dreaming. As one repeats certain dream experiences, such as flying, the more it seems real that one is flying. Little occurs that would make one doubt that one is really flying. A common Reality Check is to repeatedly suggest to oneself that if one is flying than one most certainly must be dreaming. but I am such an eternal optimist, that whenever I levitate in a dream, I simply assume it is Real and that finally I have discovered how to levitate in real life. so I go about my ordinary dream actions while performing little levitation and psycho kinetic tricks, which doesn't disturb the dream flow anymore than perhaps whistling while one works ... it just being something fun to do while doing everything else..

Can move things by just thinking about it.

These snossberries taste like strashberries !!! [/b]

(A quote from "Supertroopers" )

Anything is possible in a lucid dream, and it will feel 101% real.
A year ago I pushed a finger through my palm in a LD. Surprisingly, it felt absolutely like a "force-field"... That's quite interesting, cause I've never experienced force fields in real life, yet it felt so familiar... I had dozens of similar experiences, but this one stands out.

Another cool thing about LDs are "false memories" - you can "recall" just about anything (such as history of a dream town or what you did in that dream before it even started and so on.... )


Sometimes lucid dreaming is somewhat like a psychedelic trip - I've seen things I cant comprehend or put in words ... :/

...I ate a table onece... tasted like bacon.

But yeah, like these people have said, anything is possible in a lucid dream, things happen that one can't comprehend in real life. The only limit is our imagination.

In one of my most realistic-seeming dreams I was flying, and when I flew down sharply I could feel that unpleasant stomach-ache feeling you feel when you go down a fast bit on a rollercoaster. I reckon that when doing things youve never done in dreams, your mind will just cobble together bits of experience you do have, partly based on what you expect (consciously or not).

Yeh Ive also heard of things such as you cant do in a dream what you havent done in real life... Not sure if this is true in a regular dream, but it is definantly not true for lucid dreams.

I have done plent of things and FELT plenty of things I've never done in real life. I've never had sex, but when I did in a dream (multiple times), it felt just like I would imagine it must feel. I think your brain simply puts into effect what you have always imagined something feels like...like jumping into a large swimming pool of whipped cream. I can feel it now. I could REALLY feel it if I were in an LD.

you might be suprised how easily your mind can make up scenerios, like flying for example, heres some things that we all experience that your mind could incorporate into flying:

riding a bike fast,
riding a rollercoaster and getting the feeling of G forces on the body,
watching a bird fly,
watching superman fly in the movies,
being in an airplane or watching a movie of being in an airplane,

all these things could be used by the mind to easily set up a scenerio where they are all combined in a split second.

I believe this is what it does because of an experience that Iv had, it goes as follows :

I dont live around snow and had never seen it in real life before, and also have never skateboarded or surfed, BUT, I have played videogames about snowboarding andf im an incredibly fast learner especially by watching, anyway last winter I went up to where there was mountains with snow for the first time, I rented a snowboard and got on it remembering what I had seen in the videogame I incorporated this into my snowboarding, after falling ONCE, I had learned how to turn and go really fast almost all the way down, and after only one day I was jumping ramps and doing 180s and things while all my other companions were still learning how to turn, and yes I did fall many times but that was only because of how the snow was hard then very soft, I also had stopping all the way down by the end of the first day,

also its important to remember that neither me or my companions had a guide to show us how to snowboard and absolutely no one helped me. ( felt proud to do the black diamond course the day after I started boarding )

and also on a side note, snowboarding and the snow felt exactly how I had imagined it.

if you believe some thing can happen in a lucid dream it can

that was extremely scientific... im proud of you.

Thanks for the replies.

Just to clear things up, I wasn't asking whether it's possible or not, I was just asking how it would feel.
I know you can do anything you want in a LD, but what if your LD experience of X (where X is what you do) is not like how you would experience X in RL.