Thread: Subconscious Limitations

Hello everyone. So I've constantly been asking myself a couple of questions which seem to be on a daily cycle of 'forget when needed & remember when not required'. Lately, I've grasped some new concepts and changed my viewpoint on many things including spirituality, life & death, lucid dreaming, etc. And with that, I came up with some questions that I cannot get a concrete answer to due to lack of experience. I lucid dream once every few couple of months and only about last month I had my latest amazing lucid dream, so it is a rare occurrence to me. But anyway, I know this topic has probably been discussed before on the internet many times but I couldn't find anything specific to answer my particular set of questions - the limitations set on the subconscious mind, if any.

With that, due to my recent existential crisis, I came up with some... different... resolutions. To me, because of everything that points it towards, I've gathered some of my own, personal ideals and conclusions to life after death. Now I don't want to turn this into a 'what happens after you die' thread, so I'll just skip my whole concept and get to the juicy part; the questions. The general idea is that you are lucid dreaming forever, and your mind is awake as you would be in real life - if not more. You realise that you could do anything, or close to anything anyway. So my questions are:

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1. Could you simulate reality in your dreams to the point of no flaws? Let's say you're lucid dreaming right now, your entire life is in fact a lucid dream. Would that be possible in a dream, to achieve such stability? I am fully aware of the environment in lucid dreams, everything is as real as it gets. But that works on our senses, what if we were to use our logic? Instead of flying around from location to location, looking in the mirror and seeing your disfigured self, or just generally finding things that just trigger you to question your logic, basically to say, sometimes the subconscious takes over and does things that just aren't real instead of performing like life itself. So the question again is; would it be possible to achieve such stability and realism in a lucid dream to the point where you would never EVER be able to recognise the difference? Every single individual acts as expected (and sometimes unexpected of course, but not to the point of breaking realism). The only difference being is that you have this knowledge.

2. Changing yourself. I haven't seen much topics of this but it's quite important to me. All we ever do in lucid dreams is explore, play around, or become at peace with oneself - occasionally experiment, I guess it's up to the individual. But what if we were to CHANGE ourselves? Change the way we think, change our memories so we forget specific things, choose to become smarter, basically change our entire identity. I understand these things are probably not carried into waking life, but my question remains within the lucid dream itself, and I'm talking permanent change - not temporary.

3. Asking your subconscious to 'design' or 'choose' the BEST answer. Let's say you wanted to think up, or create, a certain individual using your personal preferences. Using the example of attractiveness, if you were to tell your subconscious mind to think up the most attractive individual you could EVER possibly think up of, would it work as expected? I'm sure this changes from time to time, so it is interesting to me when at some point you believed that to be perfect, but now you find that it is no longer perfect anymore. So perfectionism is impossible if it keeps changing. Either way, the question to ask is if anyone or anything could come as close as to what you believe is perfect simply by asking and demanding. Here is another example; a perfect place or environment you would want to be in. No flaws whatsoever except those that come in time, I presume.

4. This question goes well with the 2nd question. I was wondering if you could 'permanently' change your emotion. So let's say you want to always be happy or even depressed forever, would that be possible? I believe so, though I haven't tried.

5. Have you tried asking the subconscious mind about reality and the way things work? Asking things such as certain chemical elements or the way a chemical ingredient would react with one another. I'd expect things to act the way you'd expect it to act. But try some of these things in waking life and see if it is true. Almost as if 'borrowing' information from life itself.

6. This one is a more personal question. If you had the knowledge that everyone and everything around you was a projection of yourself and you were in a lucid state, able to do anything you want, would you be able to cope with it for all eternity? Knowing that in 'reality' you're really the only person there. Forever. Alone. Unable to escape. Or would you be happy? You have your own little 'dimension' to play in for eternity. Assuming my 4th question is possible, you'd be happy forever... and if you're happy, who cares, right?

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Thanks for your time, honestly. Especially if you actually read through all of that. And to further my questions, what do you believe would be the limit to your subconscious mind?