Thread: LDing when awake?

You cannot "dream" while awake. That's called hallucinating. The only situation where you dream while awake is due a specific disorder in which the person can be wide awake and still experience dreams. As you may have guess, it's quite a radical experience (and quite some conflict between internal and external sensory input).

Also, one role of serotonin (among other neurotransmitters) is to prevent mental projections to interfere with your central nervous system in which external sensory input is the predominant, and there's pretty good reasons why that happens. That's why you don't really see people talking about "waking life like" visualization. Maybe it's possible, but it's certainly not something you can attain naturally.

There is research suggesting that dreams and non-physical experiences actually aren't dependent on you being in REM sleep, but rather that your focus of awareness is in another frequency of existence. So let's think of the REM sleep as just a way for our mind to easier attain this focus of awareness.

Not trying to pick an argument, but that research seems extremely unreliable Dreams never were dependent on REM sleep to begin in. In fact, quite a significant amount of N-REM dreams are totally indistinguishable from REM dreams. Maybe you could point us that research out and we could discuss it here