Questions about how dreams are viewed

[Jayfeather]

I've always had this question in my mind: When you have a lucid dream, do you feel as if you're seeing it through your EYES or in your mind? Whenever I try to have a lucid dream (WILDing particularly) I'll begin to doze off, and really fall into a dream, but I can never see/visualize it through my eyes. For example, today, while attempting to WILD, I began to have this dream that I was texting a friend. After a while I woke up, and I never actually saw what was happening through my eyes, but more as a thought in my mind. However, I don't think it was a daydream, because when I woke up, I was convinced that I actually WAS texting my friend. Why do you think this is?

[fOrceez]

Fixed your title for you Personally I find the more experience I have with lucid dreaming, the more realistic the dream feels. It can also depend on how stable the dream is, naturally. PS Welcome to the board!

[DreamingGod]

It sounds like you were semi-lucid. In a Lucid Dream (mines at least) my perspective is just about the same as it is in real life yet I can make the distinction between how I seen things in my dream compared to real life. It's a weird almost unexplainable thing. I can recollect a lucid dream just as if it was any other memory but it's different from my real life memories.... I know this sounds confusing and I am sorry that I do not have a clearer way of explaining this. Just keep LD'ing and you'll understand the premise of what I attempted to explain. - Hope this helps

[Jayfeather]

Thank you fOrceez! And thanks DreamingGod, I understand what you mean.

[Sivason]

Hi Jayfeather, I ithink you may be talking about 1st person vs 3rd person viewing. In 1st you experience the vision you normally have and are inside your head looking out.This is the avarge way many dream. It gives you an advatage of feeling and experiencing what the dream body does. The Third person is less common. You see the sceene in which you are involved as if you were just watching from a short distence off. If you find you dream this way, you can still practice dream control, like directing a movie. Use both were it is helpful. I will give an example from one of my dreams. In 1st person. I walked about inside a tower and it has nice views of a sea. I go into an open bar and grill, a band is setting up, I talk to a woman. I say 'Did you know the ocean is just out side?'' She says' lets go to the balcony' We are way up above a pretty beach and what looks like a sea cave. How to get down? I looked at the beach imagining I would see us walking there, and sure enough we caan see the two of us walking on the beach. My body diffuses. Now I am in that 3rd person role, watching myself walk. I drift down to where they are and get inside this dream body. So one small use was doing a teleport that brougt both people, but not a intense teleport style. It kept the romantic mood, and on the dream goes.