Thread: Feelings and sensations.

Originally Posted by Mellanhavande

In lucid dream, is it possible to feel sensations/feelings/taste that you have never experienced in reality?

I have been thinking a lot about this, because in my dreams I've tried many things (e.g. get really drunk, sniff cocaine, do some bizarre sexual activities (don't quote me on that )), and always felt interesting sensations. Before I got drunk in LD, I never was drunk in real life, so I couldn't possibly know that feeling and shakiness. After that dream I decided to try and really get drunk, and it was shocking, because sensations were exactly the same as in the dream. Of course I won't test the cocaine, but some other experiences were the same... How is that possible?


Sorry for my terrible english.

Well, even though you never experienced them in waking life, the subconscious has a powerful way to expect how something would be like by using what you know about it.

It can definitely create new experiences you never felt before, and create them accurately.

I actually like to leave some LD experiences I never experienced before to my subconscious to create and interpret how they would be, without me overthinking how it would feel or be, but sadly it failed me the last time when I was receiving oral sex and it felt like soap and foam

Originally Posted by LouaiB

Well, even though you never experienced them in waking life, the subconscious has a powerful way to expect how something would be like by using what you know about it.

It can definitely create new experiences you never felt before, and create them accurately.

I actually like to leave some LD experiences I never experienced before to my subconscious to create and interpret how they would be, without me overthinking how it would feel or be, but sadly it failed me the last time when I was receiving oral sex and it felt like soap and foam

Well then our brains are truly amazing.

And about oral sex - for me lucid dream was extremely close to reality, the taste, feels and all the rest... I don't even know where my subconscious came up with that.

Hey Mellanhavande!
Actually you can and that is the main way to keep lucidity. What I mean is to forget about your fisycall emotions. You should explore your lucied dream. As you said feel new things, smell new things, taste new things ect. You should forget about your body laying there stilpl in bed and emerse your lucidity!
Good luck in your next lucid adventure!

Originally Posted by chance7hope

Hey Mellanhavande!
Actually you can and that is the main way to keep lucidity. What I mean is to forget about your fisycall emotions. You should explore your lucied dream. As you said feel new things, smell new things, taste new things ect. You should forget about your body laying there stilpl in bed and emerse your lucidity!
Good luck in your next lucid adventure!

Actually I would disagree that you should forget about your sleeping body. While you should emerse in the dream and keep stimuli flowing from it(you don't have to but this makes staying lucid easier, more like stabilization though), you should also keep in mind that you are inside a dream and that none of this is waking life and that your physical body is really asleep in bed. If you let the thought of "I'm inside a dream and this is not physical reality" slip off your mind, you will lose lucidity (at least as a beginner only, then when you get used to this idea, it becomes in the back of your mind when lucid, allowing you to stay lucid with less to no direct conscious constant reminder of it.

I tried to have a lucid dream right when going to sleep a while back and I ended up just having a short vivid dream but I felt the sensation of being sucked into the dream. It was really cool.

I've always wanted to try drugs or alcohol in a lucid dream. Weird how it felt exactly the same, even though you never done it before. Probably due to your perception of being drunk was pretty much dead on how it actually feels.

Yes!

The brain is amazing at being able to (quite accurately) model things you haven't yet experienced but can take a good guess at what it would be like. Like take for example ice cream, you might never have had it before but you know it's cold, you also know what chocolate tastes like and a bunch of other experiences that lie deep inside your mind you might not even be aware of. Even while awake you can accurately predict what chocolate ice cream would probably taste like, it might not be 100% perfect but you can get a good notion of it.

Inside a lucid dream this natural ability is just turned up to ridiculous levels, with a few minor exceptions you get pretty close results.

Of course if you do some research and gather more information on what you want to do you'll get an even better description, even while we are just watching something visually we invoke a lot of other senses, if for example you watch a lot of porn you can probably model a pretty accurate idea of what everything would look / feel / sound etc... like.

If we weren't able to do this I think it would be very bad for our survival, it's part of being able to learn from others by watching / listening and mixing it with our previous experiences to pick things up faster or to know what will end up being dangerous because we can see the result in our mind.

Originally Posted by Memm

Yes!

The brain is amazing at being able to (quite accurately) model things you haven't yet experienced but can take a good guess at what it would be like. Like take for example ice cream, you might never have had it before but you know it's cold, you also know what chocolate tastes like and a bunch of other experiences that lie deep inside your mind you might not even be aware of. Even while awake you can accurately predict what chocolate ice cream would probably taste like, it might not be 100% perfect but you can get a good notion of it.

Inside a lucid dream this natural ability is just turned up to ridiculous levels, with a few minor exceptions you get pretty close results.

Of course if you do some research and gather more information on what you want to do you'll get an even better description, even while we are just watching something visually we invoke a lot of other senses, if for example you watch a lot of porn you can probably model a pretty accurate idea of what everything would look / feel / sound etc... like.

If we weren't able to do this I think it would be very bad for our survival, it's part of being able to learn from others by watching / listening and mixing it with our previous experiences to pick things up faster or to know what will end up being dangerous because we can see the result in our mind.

Yes, it's especially amazing because we LDers can look up and read on new stuff and BAM we can experience them in our LDs! Even better that we need only one experience of something so we would have it perfectly all the time in our LDs! Imagine wine tasting... Have a small glass of 100 year old wine and it's not just gonna be a once in a life time experience, but instead every time in a LD dinner party!

Hmmhmhmhmmh......... *twitches and shivers on the idea that most people can't understand the heaven that is LDing!!*

*now has a happiness orgasm remembering that we're lucky we do know this joy!!!!*

ÒWÓ

Your brain is indeed amazing, you can feel in a dream. I tend to not feel pain when I become aware its a dream: