Thread: Moving My Physical Body in a Lucid Dream

yeah totally normal

Originally Posted by Joon

yeah totally normal

Oh, Ok. Yay! Normalcy!

It's totally normal - and often an illusion. Several times where I've thought my physical body was moving and I would wake myself up, after I thought about it once I actually woke up for real, I realized that the movements I thought I was making were actually impossible to do while asleep. I'm a sleep walker, so I know that my sleeping body is actually pretty clumsy. I have been foiled by a baby gate. That's how I knew when one lucid dream, when I thought I was lifting my physical hand up and waving it in front of my face, I couldn't possibly actually do that while I'm asleep without smacking myself in the head. Once I woke up, I wasn't even in a position where I could have done that anyway... the position I was sleeping in was actually completely different from the one I thought I was in when I thought I was going to wake myself up.

I've learned to check the location of the light on my ceiling when I think I'm opening my "real" eyes (and worried it'll end the dream). Is the light on? False awakening. Is the light in the wrong place? False awakening. Is the room actually nothing like my actual bedroom? You get the idea. And I still often mess up, and later realize - d'oh - it was a false awakening.

Even when it's not, and I wake myself up... there'll be other lucids. I'd rather just wake myself up trying to do what I want, rather than being afraid of doing anything. The more you practice, the less likely it is that you'll accidentally wake yourself up in the future, and the more likely it is that you'll learn to recognize false awakenings.

Originally Posted by Bubble

It's totally normal - and often an illusion. Several times where I've thought my physical body was moving and I would wake myself up, after I thought about it once I actually woke up for real, I realized that the movements I thought I was making were actually impossible to do while asleep. I'm a sleep walker, so I know that my sleeping body is actually pretty clumsy. I have been foiled by a baby gate. That's how I knew when one lucid dream, when I thought I was lifting my physical hand up and waving it in front of my face, I couldn't possibly actually do that while I'm asleep without smacking myself in the head. Once I woke up, I wasn't even in a position where I could have done that anyway... the position I was sleeping in was actually completely different from the one I thought I was in when I thought I was going to wake myself up.

I've learned to check the location of the light on my ceiling when I think I'm opening my "real" eyes (and worried it'll end the dream). Is the light on? False awakening. Is the light in the wrong place? False awakening. Is the room actually nothing like my actual bedroom? You get the idea. And I still often mess up, and later realize - d'oh - it was a false awakening.

Even when it's not, and I wake myself up... there'll be other lucids. I'd rather just wake myself up trying to do what I want, rather than being afraid of doing anything. The more you practice, the less likely it is that you'll accidentally wake yourself up in the future, and the more likely it is that you'll learn to recognize false awakenings.

An illusion? That actually makes a lot of sense, because when I would wake up, I would be in my bed laying on my stomach, hands under my pillow; not laying on my back hands flopping about. I definitely have felt like I was opening my real eyes! You're right, I should just wake myself up trying to do what a want.

Thanks for the help!