Lucid dreams make dreams real-life real

[0Beechlgz]

I'm just curious if I'm alone in this or not as it's not a complaint but a blessing... keeps the scary stuff away. What I experience when I become aware of the fact that I'm dreaming is that any weirdness or craziness in my dream just goes away. Everything becomes completely normal and realistic. If I was dreaming I was on another planet and stop and think "hey, this is a dream", it might switch to me being in my living room or something (for example), with my grandmother talking about very normal things. I know she isn't real in the dream and neither is everything else, but she will act and respond exactly as she would in real life. The strangest it gets is that she might not hear me or notice I'm there, but that's not really too strange. The laws of physics become very real. I find this is a blockage in manipulating my dreams, as the laws of physics act as they would in reality, even if I'm not consciously thinking about it. A few exceptions are being unable to activate light switches, or finding that lights don't actually illuminate a room, or clock displays/text messages showing garbled nonsense. But these are relatively minor things that don't affect the overall picture that much. Overall, things behave as you would expect them to in reality, such as liquids flowing as it should including at the correct viscosity, or things succumbing to the normal effects of gravity, including myself. Pain simulation is quite realistic too, as long as my brain has experienced that level of pain at some point before in my life. If I've never experienced it before, such as being stabbed, it is painless (sometimes real fears do manifest when I'm aware I'm dreaming). But you bet stubbing my toe in a lucid dream hurts! I've read of other people lucid dreaming, and their dreams seem to remain just as crazy even after they've become aware. I too can play with my lucid dreams but within the constraints of real life boundaries. I did once manage to levitate, I had to focus on creating an area of very high pressure air beneath my feet. It took a while but I managed to float around a room for a few seconds on this platform of highly concentrated air. This is about as far as I have been able to manipulate a lucid dream outside real world boundaries. Am I alone in this or is this more common than I think?

[0Beechlgz]

Since it won't edit my post I'd like to ask... I just noticed over a hundred views but 0 replies, and would like to know if I have said something offensive or against the forum etiquette?

[dutchraptor]

Since it won't edit my post I'd like to ask... I just noticed over a hundred views but 0 replies, and would like to know if I have said something offensive or against the forum etiquette? Haha nope, there are over three hundred users constantly on the site who are not registered members, the majority of those views are from them. Your situation is actually quite common and it mainly comes down to it that you are not fully grasping the concept of "you are dreaming". You have to know and reassure yourself that since it is a dream there are no restraints upon yourself, the only way to improve this is by stabilizing the dream and by focus and intent. Stabilizing a dream can be done simply by yelling "clarity" or "I can do anything" or by trying to focus on all your senses and by consistently reality checking. Learning how to use focus and intent can help you to learn dream control, before any action you consider difficult tell yourself that it is a dream and try to really focus on achieving what you want. Don't settle for an alternate medium of using air pressure for example to fly, just make yourself fly by commanding your brain. For me the rule applies "the simpler the better" because I can achieve almost anything in my dreams just by thinking clearly and reinforcing my awareness.

[0Beechlgz]

Hm... I don't think I understand what you mean by intent and focus, either that or I don't really know what intent or focus mean in this context. But I will try simplifying things... kind of difficult since I have an analytic mind and I think about the physics of everything in my waking life (not in a mathematical way, but just in the way your brain naturally learns it) so maybe it's hard to break this pattern of thinking, especially since it's saved me a few times I don't want to break that pattern in my waking reality. Only in the dream. I think it's possible but might just be quite difficult, since I will have to think in different ways in different circumstances. Sounds like it could be a good mental exercise though.

[dutchraptor]

Okay I will try explain it. Do you know that feeling when you are trying something in real life but just can't get and take a second or two to rest and reassure yourself that you can do it? Well in dreams we often neglect doing this and instead of forcing our mind to do what we want we turn to tricking it using some medium. The laws of physics become very real. I find this is a blockage in manipulating my dreams, as the laws of physics act as they would in reality, even if I'm not consciously thinking about it. A few exceptions are being unable to activate light switches, or finding that lights don't actually illuminate a room I think this is where your problem lies. The best way to get the lights to work (or anything for that matter) in a dream is for you to take a step back and tell yourself that the lights will turn on when you want them too. It however seems like you are not taking the time to do this and instead feel that it would be easier if you tricked your mind by using something its used to. Like this for example I did once manage to levitate, I had to focus on creating an area of very high pressure air beneath my feet. Flying in a dream should not require an excuse for your brain. It shows that you are still constraining yourself with real life logic, you must always try to tell yourself that you can fly just by wanting to. In a way you must just accept that in a dream there is no need for an explanation, it may seem unlogical but it is actually the opposite. Thats why I said you do not fully grasp the concept of being lucid, because you haven't fully accepted that there is nothing holding you back in a dream but yourself and your expectations. Once you convince yourself that in the dream reality everything is equally possible and achievable tasks will become progressively easier.