Thread: Are Lucids as fun as you say they are?

Reading some of the posts here, it seem as if you don't actually "experience" the Lucid Dream, it's more like you remember the Lucid Dream after waking up, like you would a normal dream. That kind of ruins the whole fun of trying to get a Lucid Dream, to me.

Can anyone clear this up? When you're actually in a Lucid Dream, will you remember everything as long as you're conscious?

For me it's like any experience, after it's done I only have the memory of it. But it's still a real experience when it happens.
I suppose the main difference is that I may forget details, or have trouble remembering them sometimes. But I often forget things in my waking life too.
I'd say if you wake up right from a lucid dream, you have a good chance of remembering most of it, if not all of it.

You experience a fully lucid dream just like you experience waking life.

You remember details more clearly if they are more important to you. Since lucid dreams are important to most people, they tend to be much easier to remember than non-lucid dreams.

Originally Posted by insideout

For me it's like any experience, after it's done I only have the memory of it. But it's still a real experience when it happens.
I suppose the main difference is that I may forget details, or have trouble remembering them sometimes. But I often forget things in my waking life too.
I'd say if you wake up right from a lucid dream, you have a good chance of remembering most of it, if not all of it.

Originally Posted by dolphin

You experience a fully lucid dream just like you experience waking life.

You remember details more clearly if they are more important to you. Since lucid dreams are important to most people, they tend to be much easier to remember than non-lucid dreams.

Thanks for the replies guys. This was just a thought I had that was a little worrying (haven't my first ever lucid yet, but I'm trying again -- hopefully this is the time I stay dedicated enough).

Originally Posted by Buckey

Thanks for the replies guys. This was just a thought I had that was a little worrying (haven't my first ever lucid yet, but I'm trying again -- hopefully this is the time I stay dedicated enough).

First time becoming fully lucid is worth everything.
It's amazing, good luck it will happen.

Thank you! Stuff like this keeps me motivated.

Whoa duddeeee it's actually the most fun thing doing magic stuff in real life (it feels soooo real). They are honestly so fun and even during the lucid dream, if you're conscious or barely, it still feels like real life, later in the day if you're doing something, you randomly remember your lucid dream, and you are like "wow". It's such a nice and realistic thing to LD, I felt the same way like you but I am glad I'm always able to a get a few LD's here and there, back to on topic if I was getting off topic a bit... Woops

But they seem more easy to remember than a regular dream, once you do remember them it's a nice feeling knowing you achieved it, believe me, once you do you'll feel way more motivated, and when you're conscious even in a dream, you can possibly say mantras in the dream saying you'll remember it way more easier once you wake up, anyways... Good luck and have a nice time lucid dreaming

A lucid dream is like a waking life experience, lets say you went to a part last night. The memory of that party is the same as a lucid dream is, when your in the dream its a full experience. Fully conscious. You can feel, taste, hear, smell, see, and its basically a real experience but with no limitations. Hope this helped

As everyone have mentioned, it is like a waking life experience. It's like being at this awesome party, where you got yourself one to many drinks, so you remember partially some of the details, and other details is more vivid memories than other. But you will always remember how you felt about that dream. So if you felt that it was awesome, then you wake up with just that feeling of awesomeness and some vivid memories along with that.

A feeling of surprise/excitement is often the first reaction you get when you get lucid, especially more so when you havn't had any yet. So it will be like that you realize that you suddenly woke up in another world where the rules are more or less flexible to your imagination depending on your state of mind of course. Nonetheless, you dont need to do much to ge absolute fascinated by anything really. Here is a little mini exercise you could try, that actually could be a lucid trigger for you if your lucky. While you are reading this text, imagine that you just realized that what you are reading right now, is just in a dream. And you start to look around at how real everything seems to be. You thought that this text was read in your waken life, but you just got caught off guard. And all things around you is just pure imagination things.. You could take this letters and try to taste them if you wanted. You just realized that pretty much anything is possible in this moment. How would that make you feel? I can tell you that your effort will be worth that feeling, and what I described is pretty much how I felt when I one of my first lucid dreams. So dont worry to much about if it will be worth it, just go for it and see for yourself. Good luck to you with you LDing Bucky!

Originally Posted by Buckey

Reading some of the posts here, it seem as if you don't actually "experience" the Lucid Dream, it's more like you remember the Lucid Dream after waking up, like you would a normal dream. That kind of ruins the whole fun of trying to get a Lucid Dream, to me.

Can anyone clear this up? When you're actually in a Lucid Dream, will you remember everything as long as you're conscious?

A low-level lucid dream can be a bit like that;
those lucid dreams are more indistinct, and you can feel kind of groggy in a bizarre way in them - sort of like when you are extremely tired and try your best to stay awake, except for the unpleasant exhausted feeling.
You do realize that you are in a dream, but you are also more "on autopilot" in low-level lucids, and make fairly lazy decisions like "hey, let me go there and try this...!" and you are just sort of drawn there more by instinct than by conscious choice.

However, in high-level lucid dreams, you feel absolutely exactly as "awake" as in waking life, no kidding.
It might sound like an exaggeration, but it isn't, you really do feel exactly as awake in those dreams as you do right now, and the dream environment is just as vivid and convincing as your current surroundings in waking life.
This is one of the reasons why lucid dreaming is so awesome - it is literally like stepping inside the holodeck in Star Trek and being able to summon things and interact with them (although it admittedly does take some practice to be able to summon things with great success - most beginners have problems controlling their first lucid dreams, and a good starting point is to simply walk around and observe the dreamworld for what it is).
The reason why lucid dreams are so convincing is because your brain tries its best to simulate things from your expectations - for example, if you see a wall in a lucid dream, then you immediately expect it to be rock-hard and solid, and this will make it feel solid, because this is what your brain expects it to feel like.
Same goes for everything else in a lucid dream (and in any dream in general, for that matter) - you can feel wet when you are swimming in a dream ocean, you can feel body warmth when you make out with an attractive dream character, and you can feel the wind on your face when you fly.

Sounds quite amazing, right?
Well, it is.

Originally Posted by Yuusha

However, in high-level lucid dreams, you feel absolutely exactly as "awake" as in waking life, no kidding.
It might sound like an exaggeration, but it isn't, you really do feel exactly as awake in those dreams as you do right now, and the dream environment is just as vivid and convincing as your current surroundings in waking life.

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Very good explanation Yuusha

Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?

Originally Posted by Buckey

Reading some of the posts here, it seem as if you don't actually "experience" the Lucid Dream, it's more like you remember the Lucid Dream after waking up, like you would a normal dream. That kind of ruins the whole fun of trying to get a Lucid Dream, to me.

Can anyone clear this up? When you're actually in a Lucid Dream, will you remember everything as long as you're conscious?

As others have stated, a real lucid dream is one you experience in the moment. I too had the same fear as you when I was first starting. I had multiple false-lucids (Normal dreams where your dream selfs runs around proclaiming lucidity without you actually attaining awareness). This caused me to believe that lucid dreams were just normal dreams in which people thought that they were aware but were instead completely unaware of their situation.

Then, I had a real lucid dream. I was only lucid for about 4 seconds but in those few moments everything I believed about lucid dreaming changed. I experienced true awareness. I wasn't watching a stupid version of me. I was ME. I had my intelligence, my emotions, and my initiative. I was as in the moment then as much as I am in real life. This is totally unlike a normal dream where it seems more like a movie that you don't control or are even aware that you are watching.

Are Lucids as fun as you say they are?

Yes.

for me 1/3 of them are very short so for those excitement equals high but fun equals low

1/3 of them are me mostly fighting to become stable and not really winning, the fight itself can be exciting or lame and can be fun or lame (watching my hand become fractal or something super fun) watching my fingers flash into and out of existence (so / so) becoming hand paralyzed in the void while rubbing my hands then fingers then dying in the void super lame

1/3 of them are good, I either don't need to stabilize or succeed, or even survive the void , then it is off to do 3-20 minutes of fun tho I may have set 100s of goals, I usually just do something based on where I am or pick some particular goal that wasn't even high on my list and go for that

Fun aside, my dreams always fight back, luckily I always have problem solving skills in lucids, am always armed in them if need be, and don't mind abusing mean rotten DCs

In my most epic Lucid I was messing with DC galore, then dream police showed up to arrest me, after killing / forcing them to retreat I destabilized, survived the void, re stabilized and cleared up the dream in nearly identical dreamscape and then continued messing with DCs

I had lots of powers like flying, ability to rip off dream police head with bare hands, bullet proof / instant healing, ability to grow and shrink, ability to summon and clone DCs, demand lighting changes, demand clarity, demand DCs look better (should have demanded them to act better)

'crimes against dremanity my azzzz'
The dream police actually were among the best behaved DC I'll never forget the quote of the survivor as I toss his partners head over my shoulder "I'm very sorry Sir, but I'm afraid your still going to have to come with me" (previously was "we're afraid your going to have to come with us" he he

If this isn't fun, what is, I'm sure I'll get better and remember to command DCs to behave