Thread: Has lucid dreaming changed your perception of reality?

Do you feel more enlightened regarding consciousness, life & death, or religion?

Honestly, yes, I feel more aware. Lucid dreaming (Mainly ADA, All Day Awareness) has taught me to live in the moment, not to worry about tomorrow, just the present. It really does relieve stress and let me think more clearly. Having to question my reality really is an odd concept to most I mention it to, but in general I have become a more creative person, curious, if you will. I have recaptured that creativeness that I had as a child, but on a much more mature, grander scale.

Lucid Dreaming also got me into meditating, which I now use daily.

As far as life & death, yes. Something just feels more connected after I started lucid dreaming.

Couldn't agree more with Dezz. A major increase in Awareness is one of the many benefits I have experienced since I've began LDing. However, there's always the equal and opposite force acting here, maybe not COMPLETELY equal , but there is definitely down sides.

I'm more aware ever since my first LD because you can't be too sure, Lucid Dreams feel real and i do RCs way more now.

Yes, it definitely has. On the one hand I have learned to really enjoy the moment and take it in in all its facets and on the other hand I have learned to look behind the face of everything and trying to see how all those facets interact and come into being at the same time So all in all my awareness has improved heaps and I also take things easier and don't stress too much.

hmm.. nice question. I must say that at the moment i am avoiding beeing lucid. I know it sounds strange on this forum to not try beeing lucid, but i dont do any reality checks. At the moment i just want to enjoy dream recall, to get some unknown inspiration. Musical and visual. Im trying to find out how my subconcious looks like. For me it gives me the trill before i go to bed, and a nice excitement when i wake up. I could say that i am more relaxed, but in other words, im not so connected firmly to this world, because i think of the dreamy world during the day. But it hasnt really changed much according to life and death. I will think about death when im dead. Life is what we should think about and how to get the best of it!

Originally Posted by wolfgarr

hmm.. nice question. I must say that at the moment i am avoiding beeing lucid. I know it sounds strange on this forum to not try beeing lucid, but i dont do any reality checks. At the moment i just want to enjoy dream recall, to get some unknown inspiration. Musical and visual. Im trying to find out how my subconcious looks like. For me it gives me the trill before i go to bed, and a nice excitement when i wake up. I could say that i am more relaxed, but in other words, im not so connected firmly to this world, because i think of the dreamy world during the day. But it hasnt really changed much according to life and death. I will think about death when im dead. Life is what we should think about and how to get the best of it!

Dude, I did the same thing when I first started out. I focused more on the recall part of LDing before I started getting into actual LDs...

Originally Posted by evo315

Do you feel more enlightened regarding consciousness, life & death, or religion?

Nice thread! oh indeed. it had huge impacts on my life! i don't have much LDs but i feel the obvious changes in my personality and belief as i have started my daily practices to become lucid. for example meditation which is an important skill for some LD techniques (which i am not good at it. LOL) has made me to spend many times alone with myself and explore my inner negative feelings and face myself . although after months of practice, i only have overcome a small amount of my surface negative feelings and sometimes i really stuck in it but even this little progress in my LD practices has made me less competitive (i mean its negative aspects), more enlightened to my life's goal and most importantly, it motivates me to create a world according to my real wishes!

for years i loved to meet my favorite characters in real life and i could create them in one of my lucid dreams. now i forget them because i did what i wanted! if i knew lucid dreaming some years ago then i wouldn't waste my time thinking about them a lot! so LD can avoid many hours to be wasted!

Originally Posted by evo315

Do you feel more enlightened regarding consciousness, life & death, or religion?

"reality" or the Physical world seems to me to be one long serial dream.

Life and death: Seems like Death is one Long Dream, and the people who are Lucid in the afterlife can do epic shit, while the non-Lucid souls go to whatever world they think their religion says they deserve to go to.