Thread: Thinking in a LD

Hmm, now that I think about it, the only time I 'had trouble' thinking while lucid was many LDs ago. It wasn't even actual trouble, I was just still very new at LDing and I was afraid that if I think too much, I'll shift my focus from the dream and it will disappear. Other than that, thinking in lucid dreams is pretty much just like in waking life for me.

My experience is that whenever I start thinking about my physical body I start feeling that I have to struggle to stay in the dream, and usually I lose grasp of the dream and wake up.

Also, I tend to be more on "autopilot" in lucid dreams;
I know that I am dreaming, but I tend to be more impulsive and be like "yeah, I am in a dream, time to rub my hands until the dream stabilizes --- okay, finished! now I will go here and try Dream Goal X!".

Originally Posted by Yuusha

Also, I tend to be more on "autopilot" in lucid dreams;
I know that I am dreaming, but I tend to be more impulsive and be like "yeah, I am in a dream, time to rub my hands until the dream stabilizes --- okay, finished! now I will go here and try Dream Goal X!".

I've often been the same way. In some LDs I tend to just sort of do different things as quickly as possible without thinking much about it, whereas in real life I tend to plan virtually everything I do in advance, even if by only a second or two. I'm working on changing that, though, since I seem to be generally more productive when I make more conscious decisions (especially if something unplanned happens). On the other hand, I've come up with a lot of creative things to try in “auto-pilot mode” that I might not have thought of if I had been more “conscious”.