I would like to hear about your experiences with differing levels of consciousness within a dream.
For example, in dreams I have experienced these;
1) None – I am completely controlled by my dream, I am not aware of any choices that I make, I just follow the dream as it happens around me.
2) Minimal (decision)– I am able to make decisions in the dream (with no awareness that I am dreaming), so I need onions for a salad, so I decide to go and look in the garden.
3) Some (choice) – I may be experiencing something that I do not like so I decide to change it (make the person I do not like go away, or change where the dream is occurring) – I am not lucid as such, but there is a choice occurring, with a feeling similar to what I get when I make choices in waking life.
4) More (action)– (again, not yet lucid) I decide I want sex, so I look around me for someone attractive, and then go and, um, well... you know... Or I want to meet a friend, so I make them just appear in front of me
5) Some lucidity – I am aware that I am dreaming, but things happen that are beyond my direct control – I want a pair of sunglasses and notice a DC (dream character) wearing some nice ones, so I ask him for them, but he says no and I have to convince him to give them to me.
6) Full lucidity – I am aware that the above-mentioned DC character is not real so I make him give me the sunglasses just by thinking it. Or I just make some appear in my hand. At this level of lucidity I can control everything – change scenery, make people appear or disappear, fly, do anything I want etc
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