Hello everybody! Not too long ago from making this post a user by the name of darkmatters commented on my recent post in this sub forum about the subconscious mind.


"Do you believe that spirit guides are just dream characters? or do you believe that they are actual spiritual beings that can connect to us in dreams?

... if i believe it is just a part of my subconscious, i wouldn't really expect the guide to have beneficial information (because if i don't know things consciously would the subconscious be any different?) and if i believe that it is an actual messenger, i would expect a very intriguing answer, something that would be very important to my lucid dreaming life."

Quote Originally Posted by Darkmatters View Post
If you would remove the word "just" from both of these statements then I can agree with them. As a student of Carl Jung I believe that spiritual beings, if they exist, can communicate with us only through the psyche, which is what his extensive clinical experience suggested, and what he experienced for himself as well.

"if i don't know things consciously would the subconscious be any different?"

Why would the unconscious and the conscious be identical? By definition the majority of the mind is unconscious, since you are not consciously aware of what's going on in most of it. This means that the conscious mind is a small part of the total mind, the unconscious being vastly larger. People who wave off the unconscious as something trivial have no understanding of its immense power.

It contains repressed and forgotten memories, plus a great wealth of information that just isn't available consciously. And of course it also includes the archetypes, which Jung believed were what people actually experience when they report encountering God or some other spiritual entity*. But of course clinical research and psychoanalysis can only go so far in studying the depths of the mind - beyond a certain point it's only experienced by one person. No instruments can go in there and tell us anything. So whether the visions people experience are 'real', or are only imaginary, or are something else entirely is up in the air. But when you've studied the workings of the mind enough you realize that in a sense it doesn't matter if it's 'real' or an image conjured by the unconscious - if it carries a powerful message that's transformative to a person's life, what's the difference?

* Let me rephrase that. Actually Jung said that we can't know whether God and other spiritual beings are simply archetypes within the mind, or if the archetypes are somehow connecting us to something greater that's entirely beyond our understanding. And that's where I stand as well.


Now this has me got me thinking a lot about the subconscious and what it can *really* do in lucid dreaming, since both the conscious and the subconscious are both linked, we can therefore directly tap into it's power and experience it for ourselves.

Well I've only experienced some of amazing things that the subconscious can do, so i'm going to pose some intriguing questions about what the subconscious mind can do in lucid dreams, and hopefully some people who have experienced an answer to these questions can tell me and you about them

1. Is it possible to have a stable lucid dream when you ask for 100% *conscious* (not subconscious read carefully) control of the dream

2. (This maybe a dumb one but) Can you tell your subconscious in a lucid dream to make the dream look a certain way?
Now there are many definitions for "certain ways", but mainly focused on completely altering the look of the dream.
Examples include:
Making the world 2D and with 8 bit art
Making the world anime styled art (old, new, or like a cartoon)
Making the world semi-transparent
Making the world 3D with 8 bit art
Making the world look like a video game with 1080p resolution and 4k graphics (Something that is slightly not photo realistic)
ect..

3. For the people that feel their normal bodies and dream bodies at the same time in a dream (including me) is it possible to ask the subconscious to not feel the normal body and make the dream body feel exactly like the normal body?

4. Could you tell the subconscious what your ideal lucid dreaming world would be like and it automatically makes things up fitted to that specific mold you set for it?
Examples include:
Making a world where everything is based off of an ancient civilization like the Egyptians and Persians (so that nothing like a cellphone would randomly appear in 5000 B.C )

Making a world where only yellow materials and stuff are used in everyday life (things like a green apple wouldn't appear in this world).

and plenty more examples..

5. Can you tell your subconscious once in a lucid dream to always return to the previous dream and build dreams off of that?

6. Can you make a lucid dream feel like a day has gone by? (this is semi answered because of the time dilation in dreaming concept, but can this be used to such an extreme like this?)



Those are the main questions that I have about the power of the subconscious and it will be very interesting actually seeing how many people experienced these things in a lucid dream.

Thanks for reading