Thread: Thinking in dreams

When you are in a dream, do you think within the dream or are your thoughts fused with the actual dream world?

ie.
If you think " what if the sky was green?" does the sky turn green or does nothing happen

Depends. In LD's I like to experience what the dream has to tell me. Once in a while I will try things just to see if it will happening. For example, when I thought about flying in a dream I was able to fly, and when I thought about going to a specific place I visited that location within the dream. So it probably depends on what you are interested in doing.

I would dare say that non-lucid dreams are a result of what you are thinking or imagining as your mind wanders in sub-consciousness. Although your alert self has no place in the coarse of events in a non-lucid.

However, in a lucid dream it appears that we have a different way of thinking which regards dream content as a seperate entity. For me, if I wanted to change the color of the sky, I would really have to will it to happen. I would have to suggest to myself things like, "look, the sky is green!"

I was actually saying if you just stop and think about somthing in a dream ,not neccisarily intending to do it, would it affect the dreamscape?

Originally posted by Jrels
I would dare say that non-lucid dreams are a result of what you are thinking or imagining as your mind wanders in sub-consciousness. Although your alert self has no place in the coarse of events in a non-lucid.

However, in a lucid dream it appears that we have a different way of thinking which regards dream content as a seperate entity. For me, if I wanted to change the color of the sky, I would really have to will it to happen. I would have to suggest to myself things like, \"look, the sky is green!\"

Yeah, thats kinda what I was thinking.

Something sort of like that happens for me. If I'm just flowing with the dream, not paying a lot of attention to some things, I won't notice a lot, and it won't be there. For example, I usually don't actually hear people speaking in my dreams - I just know what they're saying, sort of like I can read their mind. If I actually listen for a voice, I'll hear it. The same holds true for a lot of background details.

This happens to me a lot in non lucid dreams, where for instance Id be in a store and worrying about getting caught shoplifting (though Im not) and keep thinking about it and on my way out they bust me cuz they think Im shoplifting. Or Im thinking about how much I would like to drive this nice Beamer and then later the owner asks if Id like to take a drive. Stuff like this happens to me all the time. Where what Im thinking about ends up happening. Though like jrels said in a lucid one Id have to think about changing something and make it happen rather than the dream just following my thoughts automatically.

Originally posted by ledzepplin
When you are in a dream, do you think within the dream or are your thoughts fused with the actual dream world?

ie.
If you think \" what if the sky was green?\" does the sky turn green or does nothing happen

I thought, planned and pondered in many a dream.

In one of my most important Dreams, in which I was confronted by the Very Angel of God, I 'thought' about trying to speak to ask a question, and was actually able to get it out. In another Spiritual Dream, I discussed with another devotee the possibilities of approaching the Guru for a favor. It is quite ordinary to 'think' within a dream.

However, refer to "Legend's" recent Post (his avatar is the Chinese Character for The Dao or Way). He indicates that thought should be confined away from analytical mathematics and written words and such. Apparently Lucid Dreaming hangs somewhere either between the two hemispheres of the Brain, or it prefers the Right Side of the Brain. Any mental activity that would pull Consciousness all the way over toward the Left Hemisphere tends toward breaking down the dream.