Originally posted by Ev
This question was bothering me when i just started LDing. There were several experiments I performed to find an answer.

1) I've been trying to read a number plate on a random car outside. At least 3 experiments failed - number plates were just a bunch of random numbers

2)There was a girl I liked by never spoke to in real life. 2 times I asked her to tell me about herself. Both times I was very highly lucid. And both times she told me a bunch of random crap (for example she told me something like I'm 4'2\" I like so and so, but actually she was about 5'6\" and the thing she told me doesnt exist).
I've performed similar experiments with my father and my mother, they also failed.

3)Few times i've felt like I was sharing a dream with a special DC. They seemed aware that they were dreaming. So I asked them for their email adress. Needless to say that *all* adresses were fake! Once I even caught a DC lying to me in a dream. That bastard soon was running for his pathetic dream life

4) Several times I've read some books in a dream and remembered their titles. Googling them returned 0 results...
Well, many of the OBE (out of body, astral projection, soul travel) Gurus (Oliver Fox, Robert Bruce...) have advanced the notion that the Astral Plane, where it overlaps the material plane, is a close facsimile of the Material World, but many of the details become subjective... because the details themselves are fluctuating, or because the apparatus of our perceptions have trouble focussing on any one objective concrete fixed form.

I once 'read a book' about hallucinogenic drugs, which could induce a state of mind in which perceptions, while seeming real, were understandably delusional -- the grain of wood would undulate, paintings of snakes would slither, the designs on Persian Carpets would kaleidascope... but not 'really'. so it is in the Astral World -- we see things with our Minds and not our eyes, where meaning trumps reality in many instances.