Thread: Thinking in a LD

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”.