Quote Originally Posted by Rothgar View Post
To further the thought...and even if you believe me, you won't necessarily relate when I say how REAL it is. You will be thinking it is more like a dream, because it is called lucid dreaming. So like watching a movie, maybe....you try to explain with words like.."no, you are present in the moment" but how can they relate when "reality" is the only other similar experience?
The reason why I think lucid dreaming should theoretically be easy to understand is the fact that it can actually feel like a waking life experience;
if you tell someone that a lucid dream can be exactly as vivid as a moment in waking life, then that is a pretty good example of what a lucid dream is like.
This should be a very intuitive thing to grasp for people, because everyone obviously experiences waking life (at least mentally sane people) and therefore it shouldn't be too hard to get the concept "okay, lucid dreaming feels like being awake and aware, but during a dream".