Thread: If you have some Disability, can you lucid about not having it?

Originally Posted by Eonnn

I'd say it's possible but I've been blind in one eye since age 4 and don't really recall what it's like to see with 2 eyes.

In my dreams I have the same prosthetic eye I have in real life, and I've actually tried a few times to see again through 2 eyes but it never works. I know it's possible though because there have been times when I have closed my eyes in a dream and created a new dream without opening them, kind of like creating a new eye. But because you are seeing things in a dream through your mind, your eye's aren't real they are more like a concept or fabricated body part. Your mind is what does all the work, your dream body doesn't exist and isn't necessary to do things it's just something we are familiar with. However, I'm so familiar with having just one eye to see through in waking life that it carries over into my dreams, and it's very hard to change.

I have heard people experience much more bizarre things in dreams.
Alan Worsley once tried splitting himself in half in a lucid dream, and some people have reported dreams where they turned into rain or a dolphin.
So I definitely think it is possible to experience things that aren't very intuitive if you have the slightest hint of what it could feel like.

The only things you cannot lucid dream about IMO are the things that are completely unavailable to you - like for example learning a new language without any prior knowledge.