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Can a person ever get so wrapped up in lucid dreams that they eventually don't realize the difference between dream and reality? Like if you LD so much and you're so occustomed to reality checks, and one day in reality your light bulb burns out and you go to turn on the light and it doesn't work and you say "I must be dreaming". Then you go jump off of your roof to fly and you end up falling to your death.
Does anybody else see these dreams as being somewhat dangerous?
i guess it could happen there are people who go crazy obsessed over all kinds of things, i guess its not totally out of the question
When I was younger, I used to go lucid a lot in dreams. It mostly happened during nightmares that were insanely over the top, I guess I unconsciously did a reality check. One dream in particular I remember hanging from the Golden Gate Bridge (somewhere I've never been) while someone stomped my fingers. After realizing it was a dream, I let go, and promptly woke up.
That was all a long boring preface. :roll:
When I was around twelve, I went on a campout with several friends to a campground near a river. We decided to go tubing, and on the trek upstream, we had to take a winding path along a steep embankment which with the help of gravity could almost certainly lead to death, or if one was lucky maiming. It had started raining hard, but we continued anyway, because getting wet didn't really hinder tubing. After much horseplay, I found myself hanging from the edge of the drop, pulling up a companion who'd gone after his tube. After helping him up, I looked down, and this strange feeling of calm came over me, because I was positive that this was a dream. Situations in which one clung to a tree and gazed down at a deadly fall simply didn't occur in real life, and besides this was a dreamsign of sorts for me.. For about ten seconds, I was entirely convinced that I was in a dream state, and wanted nothing more than to let go of the tree, and jump off, into the rocks below. Luckily, by that time, my friends were already pulling me up, and it didn't really matter, but it was scary all the same.
That was all a long boring anecdote. :roll:
In short, I could definitely see how some sort of fatal accident could occur as a result of someone believing they were in an LD.
I think in a way, you 'know' that you're awake when you are. You do the RC's as a habit or whatever, but deep down, you know you're awake (except after a potential false awakening hehe).
That's why I like to confirm that I'm dreaming by doing something that would be impossible in waking life, like floating off the ground, or breathing through my nose while I'm pinching it.
Although, I must say that I've never even come close to being convinced that I'm dreaming when I'm not. Then again, if your grip on reality is not all that firm to begin with, you may be susceptible to this type of thing.
A light not turning on is not a sufficient reality check. Floating off the ground is. Never jump out of a window just because a light wouldn't turn on. The best way to fly is to float off a solid, large surface, not to jump out of a window. Don't start out doing anything you wouldn't do in the waking world. Always begin a series of behaviors with caution.
IM pretty sure I could tell, If I wanted to jump out aeindow ina dream I would walk up to the windo and there weould prolly not be any glass or window jsut a hole in the wall where a window wwould be, andthen I would just be in the window, I wouldnt have tyo open it, then climp up and lean out.