What does being lucid FEEL LIKE for you?

**kel** · 03-14-2012 08:14 AM

in LD has anyone ever: stopped whatever they were doing to take a second to breath, and feel what being lucid actually feels like?

I did once, I looked down at my feet, and it felt odd, like I was happily floating around instead of standing/walking. I felt weighless - it was cool.

if you havent, u should try it =P
I want to hear what being lucid feels like XD

**Seroquel** · 03-14-2012 09:12 AM

It's like I'm walking on sunshine.

**Dark_Merlin** · 03-14-2012 09:52 AM

For me the feeling of being within a dream is a key part of how and why I get lucid. If I had to try and describe it, it's almost like a 6th sense in every sense I have. Everything is heightened - my vision is clearer, touch is more sensitive, hearing more defined, smell and taste more delicious and appealing!

For me there is also the strange sense of awareness of everything that is going on around you without having to interact with it. If someone's going to open the door I can feel the door being opened, if someone's coming up behind me I can sense that they're there, etc. To me the feeling of being lucid is all about the heightened awareness!

**Evolventity** · 03-14-2012 10:48 AM

It feels like my body is at 50% opacity, the sun is shinning through me, and falling without the weight in my torso. A place where pain doesn't exist. It's utopia.

**Timothy Paradox** · 03-14-2012 11:19 PM

Similar to the hallucinations you get right before dying. Like you're floating on air, and have become one with the world around you. Awesome feeling, that.

**Blackfox** · 03-14-2012 11:24 PM

I was about to say it feels like i'm on top of the world, but it actually feels like I am the world, and the world is me. It's extraordinary.

**Puffin** · 03-14-2012 11:50 PM

I'm big on DILD, where I become lucid randomly in the dream.

The initial moment when I suddenly stop and realize that I'm asleep is crazy. I feel like I've just had a big epiphany, and it feels like a bunch of oxygen suddenly rushes to my head, my mind being all clear. My excitement at this time seems to be massive. I often shout "yesss!' and dance around for a few moments before flying off - doing these three things is almost an automatic reaction. I've never woken from this excitement, though, which is utterly puzzling.

After that ebbs, I will then mentally run through what I want to do in the dream, thinking up visualizations of DCs I want to summon, or locations I want to get to.

All in all, lucid dreaming feels like I am in control, and that I can influence anything with just my thoughts. Quite extraordinary.

**Mancon** · 03-15-2012 12:05 AM

When you first become lucid, it's a rush of excitement and amazement. Then if you ponder it too long it can get a little weird. You're standing in this dream world where everything feels real (most of the time) yet your physical body is laying in bed. When I was a beginner, the feeling of being lucid was one of the best feelings in the world. After a few years, it's still amazing.

**siuol** · 03-15-2012 12:08 AM

When I first become lucid it is like I just remembered a name that I had been on the verge of getting for a long time. And then my own personal world that I have come to love every single night is open to me, I can leave the pre-set tracks and just enjoy the place I go to all the time. All the things I planned on doing once lucid don't matter, it is just the freedom that comes with it. Its almost like the regular dream is in 2D, and I can only walk in a single direction, and then it switches to 3D and I can suddenly go off to the side where I am not supposed to be. I like to pretend that the dream world is real, and that I am stopping the events and seeing what else was going on while I was preoccupied.

**Queen Zukin** · 03-15-2012 12:56 AM

It feels like being high.

**Linkzelda** · 03-15-2012 02:26 AM

When I am lucid, I feel as if all of the responsibilities and burdens I have to be conscious of in waking life is gone. My mind is relaxed, and my emotions are much stronger. I also feel content knowing the fact that when I am lucid that I can find others and hopefully have shared dreams with them.

The feeling of being with another person you know in a dream, and you know they know you're with them as well makes lucidity even more amazing rather than indulging in personal ambitions.

I find myself to be more open to others if I find them because I do not hold on to that many insecurities.

**LucidDreamGod** · 03-15-2012 03:05 AM

It doesn't feel much like real life, but at the same time it does. I know that in the dream world, I look at the entire scene, where as in the real world I study the details of a scene more. That is the major difference for me. It's like I know what I'm seeing, but don't see the pieces of the picture.

**NrElAx** · 03-15-2012 03:08 AM

I tend to rush around too much, which leads me to waking up. But I always try and tell myself to calm down when I become lucid, but its almost like I get into this autopilot mode and I forget about everything in the outside world(outside my dreaming mind). But most of my lucids..well.. feel dreamy! lol

**Amandaceline** · 03-20-2012 05:14 PM

Same as above...I seem to go on autopilot, so it's not too exciting or fun, but I intend to change that!

**Crucide** · 03-21-2012 01:20 AM

Everyone typically says that they feel a certain peace when they're lucid but I feel something different; a certain awkwardness to it, like I'm out of place. Sometimes the dream feels downright hostile.

Side note: I haven't had the best experiences with dreams in my short life, I'd say about 90% of my dreams are nightmares.

**Sageous** · 03-21-2012 02:42 AM

Originally Posted by kel

I want to hear what being lucid feels like XD

it feels like freedom; like a moment away from the tireless shackles that are corpporeal life. It feels, every time, like a step toward where I know I'm supposed to be every moment of my waking life.

And when the floodgates off awareness are fully open, it feels like a step into a world of promise, progress, and, ultimately, transcendence.

All in all it feels pretty cool...

**fOrceez** · 03-21-2012 12:05 PM

Agree with Sageous, it feels like freedom. It's getting that sudden realisation that you can do anything in 'this world'

**Rothgar** · 03-21-2012 11:24 PM

Feels like my other reality, and I am constantly trying to get there. It is awesome to experiment with what you can do in this 'practice' reality.

**bellatrix18** · 03-22-2012 12:52 AM

I agree with Sageous too. I used to have very fuzzy LDs where I'd worry too much and they'd end very quickly or I'd get carried away back into the dream but after time and practice my LDs are full of possibilities and I feel like there's a world I can enter where I have no limits, no consequences, nothing bad can happen and anything is possible. I love it!!

**Foggy** · 03-22-2012 01:16 AM

Originally Posted by Timothy Paradox

Similar to the hallucinations you get right before dying. Like you're floating on air, and have become one with the world around you. Awesome feeling, that.

The chemical that is flooded into your brain at the moment you die is called DMT. Dimethyltriptamine. It is the most potent hallucigenic in the world, far more powerful than LSD and even Salvia. Some people know it as the Spirit Molecule, and many have basically described it as enlightenment. What's interesting is that DMT is also released when you're born, and there is strong evidence to suggest that it is released when you sleep causing dreams. Have you had a personal near-death experience? There are certainly many exciting stories of them!