Thread: How long did it take you to have your first LD?

Are Lucid dreams really as vivid as real life or look like real life? I think a problem is that part of me is having trouble thinking that this amazing thing could actually happen. I feel like my subconscious is too small to actually encapture an entire world?

Originally Posted by kamenriderbaron

Are Lucid dreams really as vivid as real life or look like real life?

Most of my LDs are as vivid as real life, so yes they generally are. Some LDs can be cartoonish (literally look animated), others might be foggy and not as vivid, and sometimes they can even be more vivid than real life. I mean, I know that this is a large thing to swallow unless you've experienced it yourself, but yes, some can be more vivid even. Sometimes the colors will be brighter, or resolution greater, or a greater field of view, or some extra-sensory input, or even some kind of feeling of, hmmm, purity or knowledge - it's really hard to describe in words.

By the way, with sufficient control you can change the vividness of the dream.

I feel like my subconscious is too small to actually encapture an entire world?

What you see in real life isn't the entire world - it's merely your interpretation of it based on sensory input (vision, balance, time perception, etc, etc) and a very complicated set of heuristics and feedback loops ("logic" and "emotions")...

If you call your interpretation of the entire world just "entire world", than it shouldn't surprise you that your subconscious can encapture it - in fact, it does this very same thing every day. Your brain does this while you read this reply, and essentially it does this in the background every fragment of a second from a few weeks after your conception up until the brain dies. That's the role of our brain - to create a "native" simulation of reality.

If the brain can do this for hopefully 120+ years, than why can't this happen while dreaming!?