Thread: Some interesting LD questions for you

1)How do you know you're not just dreaming of yourself having a lucid dream? Maybe you think ur lucid, but in fact you're having a dream where you're having a dream that you are controlling, know what I mean?

2)In regards to the last question, I think there is a certain feeling you get when you become lucid, but than again I'm not sure, because when I look back on my LD, it's hard to remember exactly what I felt (though it's easy a few seconds after I have it). So I have another question, how do you feel after your LD? Do you remember your LD as truly being in control and being able to make decisions, or do you remember it as just an ordinary dream where you thought u were LDing, like in question 1? For me it's more the latter.

Lol, if that makes any sense whatsoever, I'd be curious to hear someone's response.

thanks

Originally posted by strifer
1)How do you know you're not just dreaming of yourself having a lucid dream? *Maybe you think ur lucid, but in fact you're having a dream where you're having a dream that you are controlling, know what I mean?

2)In regards to the last question, I think there is a certain feeling you get when you become lucid, but than again I'm not sure, because when I look back on my LD, it's hard to remember exactly what I felt (though it's easy a few seconds after I have it). *So I have another question, how do you feel after your LD? *Do you remember your LD as truly being in control and being able to make decisions, or do you remember it as just an ordinary dream where you thought u were LDing, like in question 1? *For me it's more the latter.

Lol, if that makes any sense whatsoever, I'd be curious to hear someone's response.

thanks

Lucid Dreaming is not defined by "being in control". Lucid Dreaming is being aware that one is dreaming while one is dreaming. It was a myth that got started by Seminar Promoters early on when Lucid Dreaming became popular, that Lucidity would bestow an absolute ability to control everything in and about the Dream Scene. It simply is not so.

Take a look at some of these essays:

http://www.sawka.com/spiritwatch/tableof.htm

You will see that after 10 years of study and experiment that those who insisted that Lucidity equated to total dream control were probably only putting forward some very optimistic hypothesises in order to sell more books are book more seminars.

The true utility of being Lucid in a Dream is in order to give one's waking perspective a chance to influence the choices made in Dreams which would otherwise have been made by the more primitive dream self. Indeed, it does not take much reflection upon the actions we take in our dreams to realize that our Dream Self's behavior hardly is an exact match of our waking behavior. In most cases, our waking behavior has a more civilized and moral caste to it. What Lucidity helps to accomplish, is the integrating of Moral and Civilized behaviors upon the primitive dream self -- it is a step in the direction of making the Dream Self more exactly into the person we truly are. Also, perhaps it works somewhat the same but in the other way around -- that the Dream Self has certain skills and behaviors, emotions and attitudes which the Waking Self can profit by exposure to.

But, no, the overriding existential purpose for Lucid Dreaming is not so that we can pull rabbits out of our dream hats.

In many dreams, you make decisions.
Think of first person dreams, you always make all the decisions, thinking that i'ts real life.
This means you are in control of yourself, and so, you can realise things!
You can realise that it is a dream, and still make all the decisions, it's just like thinking in real life.
Third person dreams however...altough, you are not in actual control as much there.
They tend to show you doing things you would never think of doing in real life.

Example: (Really bad example, but still very good.)
I had a dream where i was in a room, the door closed and locked, the key was still in, but i didn't use the key.
I started trying to pull the locked door open, even though the key was in the lock 5 centimeters in front of me.
That is typically stupid, and i would, of course, have used the key if i was in control.



The end.

I think there is a certain feeling you get when you become lucid,[/b]

this probly depends on the person but in the only lucid dream i remember, at the point i realised i was dreaming i felt intense vibrations all over.the kind you get from WILDing