Non-lucid dreams are quite interesting

This morning i attempted a WILD but fell asleep without keeping my conscious. Anyways a little backstory i work at a small pizzeria and i ended up having a dream where the pizzeria was the setting, only this one was about 300x as big (not exaggerating). And its interesting how if you are not lucid in a dream, you play it off as if you are still in reality, not fully noticing that what you are experiencing is far from what you experience in reality, like my pizzeria example. Any science lovers out there that can explain this? I know it has something to do with your conscious and subconscious but id like someone to go into further detail.

Yeah, I must admit this aswell.
Even if my WILD attempts make me end up falling unconscious then those non-lucids are kinda awesome aswell.
The thing that i like most about dreams are Dream Characters,
They are kind, suprising, emotional and just like real people,
I just love them :yeah:

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Originally Posted by 420Lucidity

Any science lovers out there that can explain this? I know it has something to do with your conscious and subconscious but id like someone to go into further detail.

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I'm a little confused what question you are asking. Maybe i'm just too tired to notice it :yawn:
It'd be great if you could show me it :-P

Non-lucids are sometimes better than lucids. :P

^^ What anime is your sig pic and avatar from? o.o

I agree that non-lucids can sometimes be better than lucids too. Sometimes they can make you believe some pretty awesome things for a while.... Or sometimes they're just downright bizarre which is reason enough to like them. :chuckle:

Just recently I had a dream where I kept seeing the same people over and over again in different towns and immediately knew that this was because they were all copies of the same people who lived independent lives never interaction with each other to keep these towns active in a magical homeostasis. I've also had dreams before where I can see the same person in two rooms which exist in the same place but you go back and forth between them through a door, and in one room they're very skinny and in the other they're very obese, and I just know that it's because I'm viewing them from two parallel dimensions. I've also had dreams where I died and ended up in an eternal afterlife paradise. Those are fun while they last, and I'm not even religious.

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^^ What anime is your sig pic and avatar from? o.o

I agree that non-lucids can sometimes be better than lucids too. Sometimes they can make you believe some pretty awesome things for a while.... Or sometimes they're just downright bizarre which is reason enough to like them. :chuckle:

Just recently I had a dream where I kept seeing the same people over and over again in different towns and immediately knew that this was because they were all copies of the same people who lived independent lives never interaction with each other to keep these towns active in a magical homeostasis. I've also had dreams before where I can see the same person in two rooms which exist in the same place but you go back and forth between them through a door, and in one room they're very skinny and in the other they're very obese, and I just know that it's because I'm viewing them from two parallel dimensions. I've also had dreams where I died and ended up in an eternal afterlife paradise. Those are fun while they last, and I'm not even religious.

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Our own ignorance turns into our entertainment. :P

It's from Date A Live. Pretty weird show, but I enjoyed it.

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Originally Posted by 420Lucidity

This morning i attempted a WILD but fell asleep without keeping my conscious. Anyways a little backstory i work at a small pizzeria and i ended up having a dream where the pizzeria was the setting, only this one was about 300x as big (not exaggerating). And its interesting how if you are not lucid in a dream, you play it off as if you are still in reality, not fully noticing that what you are experiencing is far from what you experience in reality, like my pizzeria example. Any science lovers out there that can explain this? I know it has something to do with your conscious and subconscious but id like someone to go into further detail.

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I think there are a few explanations for this phenomenon, though all of them seem to pose questions to me.

Consider this: if you were not a lucid dreamer, and a tiger suddenly ran down the street, your first response would probably be to run first, and worry about why there is a tiger in your neighborhood second. To the mind, seeing is believing. If we can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch something, then we assume it is real, even if it seems weird.

The second is something I have come up with independently, though I may be wrong. If you allow yourself to slip into hypnogogia, and then wake yourself up before falling asleep, you will experience wonderful trains of thought that made perfect sense as you were falling asleep, but when you snapped back awake, if you could remember any of it, little of it probably resembled anything close to sense. This is the stuff dreams are made of. We know that in many dreams we are supplied with back stories and false memories explaining why we are in a place; I think it is perfectly reasonable to think that dreams normally provide this information, and that we simply aren't activating that information actively in the dream state.

For instance, it is perfectly normal for us to go to work, get totally caught up in what we are doing, and never once consider why we are at work, why we are doing the thing we are doing, or why this thing matters at all. Dreams create realistic enough scenarios that we simply behave as we normally do in waking life--sound asleep :)