Thread: What is it like?

I'm just curious, for those frequent lucid dreamers, what is it like to know you can lucid dream? The sense of knowing that everything when you lucid dream is in your control and you can bend with naught but your mind? That it has happened and will happen again? Is it as if it happened in waking life as clear and crisp as that? Or fuzzy like it happened a long time ago? What does the feeling feel like?

Originally Posted by Kaotic

I'm just curious, for those frequent lucid dreamers, what is it like to know you can lucid dream? The sense of knowing that everything when you lucid dream is in your control and you can bend with naught but your mind? That it has happened and will happen again? Is it as if it happened in waking life as clear and crisp as that? Or fuzzy like it happened a long time ago? What does the feeling feel like?

It's not the same every time, sometimes if you're about to wake up the dreamscape changes rapidly and it can be very confusing... most of my lucids are crystal clear though.

I did have one strange one were everything had a sort of static-y look to it- like the slenderman effect.

As for being able to lucid dream, it's like knowing that tonight you get to have some time in god mode every night where you can do anything you want without consequence.

It bears no difference from my waking life. When I lay down I just continue my day, and taking my beliefs in accordance it is no different from being awake all the people are the same. And there are no laws of nature that affect me. It's like living two lives. And sometimes I'm not sure which one is more real.

Although i normally have 2-3 lucids a week on average and have had most of my life, my control of
them has always been at best poor but mostly nonexistent.
For example if i imagine someone i want to see is behind a door or just around the corner 9 out of
10 times there's nobody there and one the odd occasion when there is someone there it is either a
different person or at best someone who only vaguely resembles the person i have being trying to
cause to appear.
So for me anyway frequent lucids does not give me god like powers.

Originally Posted by Kaotic

I'm just curious, for those frequent lucid dreamers, what is it like to know you can lucid dream? The sense of knowing that everything when you lucid dream is in your control and you can bend with naught but your mind? That it has happened and will happen again? Is it as if it happened in waking life as clear and crisp as that? Or fuzzy like it happened a long time ago? What does the feeling feel like?

I think its always clear and crisp as in waking life. As someone already mentioned, sometimes you do not know whether it was a dream or it happened for real.

Feelings.. depends which dream you had, you might even have stronger feelings from your dream then you ever experienced in your waking life.

And when I got bored with everything that I could do in my lucid dream, I got into beyond dreaming part, doing a lot of experiments and theories and so on. Never ending process

While I can't say I have frequent lucid dreams, but after I have had lucids it varies a lot: I've had lucids that were as clear as waking life and I retained the memory of them easily for 20 years, and I have had lucids that were fuzzy. Vividness is not a prerequisite for lucidity. Lucid dreams are about awareness not necessarily vividness. And while it is true that high awareness clear lucids can be as clear as waking life and one can improve clarity in lucid dreams and often the very act of becoming lucid makes a dream more vivid, but there are lucid dreams that are fuzzy and that does not make them non-lucid.

To know you can lucid dream? It feels great. Makes you feel happy about yourself in waking life, just because it's another goal that you've achieved and you can be proud of pulling it off. Being lucid, whether it's fuzzy or not, just feels like waking life to me. It's a strange realization when you notice you're in a dream, but I think the feeling you get depends on awareness.

If you're not very aware, you could simply go, "Oh, I'm dreaming. Oh well," and then continue on with the dream, hardly lucid at all. If you are aware then it can be an amazing sensation of, "Oh my god, I'm dreaming! How can this be a dream?!"

In short, it's great.

Sounds awesome can't wait until I have my first real one. I'm trying really hard.

I didn't have that many lucid dreams yet (about 20) but from those I had I can tell you it's something extraordinary. Most are as vivid as real life for me, with some being blurry and not very memorable. I'd love to lucid dream every night, this is my goal, as right now I'm having my lucid dreams every now and then, and it's just not enough. I wish you best on your path to becoming a lucid dreamer