Thread: LDing when awake?

This may or may not be related, but when one of my LDs were about to end, I could see the dream world in one eye and my room in another. It was very strange.

Yes yes.. Actually this is a coincidence. I just started thinking about this a few weeks ago. I guess you could say I just..remembered it. When I was a kid, about the age of 5 to 15, I used to be able to have extremely vivid daydreams. It's hard to explain but when I daydreamed, I was THERE. I was no longer in class, or in the car, but I was wherever I wanted to be, and I could do anything I wanted to. It was amazing at the time.

I used to think I outgrew the ability to do it though, until now. For a few weeks now I've been trying to do it again. Trying as hard as I possibly could to have one of those daydreams. At first, it was nothing. I would be ripped back to reality in a heartbeat. It was extremely frusturating knowing that I used to have the ability to do something amazing, but I cant do it anymore. But yesterday, I got a little closer. I daydreamed for a good 10 minutes, not completely vivid, but I was "in deeper" if ya know what I mean. It was clearer, and I wasnt distracted by the outside world.

This is why I think now that it's not an ability you grow out of with age, it's an ability you lose through disuse, just like any other skill. With practice, I may be able to get close to what I used to be able to achieve, if not completely.