Couple of Lucid Dreaming questions

**Kimura** · 08-13-2015 02:58 PM

1.) If you're lucid dreaming and your alarm goes off, will you hear it or will you miss it completely

2.) As you become a more experienced lucid dreamer, do you need to keep doing WILD/WBTB to have a lucid dream, or will you just be quicker to do a reality check during a regular sleep cycle (just sleeping through the night normally)

3.) If I wanted to learn a new skill in a lucid dream like driving a semi truck, would the info I learn there be exactly like real life (like will they way the truck is in the dream be exactly like how it is in real life)

4.) How do you exit a lucid dream?

Just a few questions. I'm kinda new to this. I've been trying for about 7 months now, but I haven't been successful yet. Been trying to the WILD method lately and I'm hoping I will get lucky!

**splodeymissile** · 08-13-2015 03:32 PM

1. If you hear it in a regular dream, you'll probably hear it in a lucid. If you feel particularly paranoid, however, only intentionally lucid dream on days when you can lie in.

2.You seem to be talking about two different methods here. Reality checking is MILD (I think. I'm personally a WILD user). Reality checking can help if a WILD attempt goes awry.

3. So long as you've seen the inside of a truck before and have some experience driving one in reality, you can sharpen your skills in the dream. While the mind can create new experieces (or make them seem new), there's no guarantee that it''l reflect reality.

4.You can just will it. Try forcefully opening your eyes and your real ones will follow.

Any more questions, ask away.

**ToukieToucan** · 08-13-2015 04:17 PM

3) It will look like what you expect it will look like, since dreams are completely private (until we get shared lucid dreaming) everything will act like you subconcious mind will think its like

**Sensei** · 08-13-2015 04:53 PM

1) yes. a lucid dream is just a dream in which you know you are dreaming. So as long as you usually wake up to alarms normally.

2) yes and no. as you get more and more aware in dreams, you usually become more aware of wakings during the night. Everyone wakes up after their REM cycle, but most people don't remember it. I do. So I do WBTBs all night long. This can be a good time to reset intent and awareness. the no part is because you don't "need" it to LD, but it will still help. Things that help you LD will always help you LD. It is up to you whether you can incorporate it.

3) depends on you and the dream. If you know what it is like in waking, then it can be just like it in sleeping. Dreams always seem to have some sort of random element in them as well though, so the semi might just drive like a bicycle instead of a semi truck.

4) You can wake yourself up, most people actually struggle staying in lucids and not getting out of them. When you start LDing you will probably notice this too. You are not eager to wake yourself up, and why should you? It is the same as if you are sleeping, there is literally nothing better you could be doing at this time.

I would recommend this thread for you:
http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews...e-told-me.html

good luck