Thread: The truth behind Lucid Dreaming - Experienced Lucid dreamers are needed

You could call them the laws of absolute reality too, not just lucid dreaming. You've stumbled into a great truth, which is fantastic to see!

Definitely a powerful realization for lucid dreaming. But it's powerful for much more than that, just keep that in mind. If you don't see it yet, you will.

But yeah, nice one.

Originally Posted by slash112

You could call them the laws of absolute reality too, not just lucid dreaming. You've stumbled into a great truth, which is fantastic to see!

Definitely a powerful realization for lucid dreaming. But it's powerful for much more than that, just keep that in mind. If you don't see it yet, you will.

But yeah, nice one.

Hahaha

I am not sure are you praising me or being just sarcastic. Anyway these laws are only usable in our personal lucid world. I wanted just to correct you, so that other people won't misunderstand them. If one understand them correctly, they can lead to perfect lucidity!

I am not answering a particular question here, but I will comment about the original poster message + comments in general.

For me, lucid dreaming is not about "why" I want to have lucid dreams. All my life I had lucid dreams. In fact, only 2 years ago I discovered most people don't have lucid dreams frequently (or that many actually don't even believe lucid dreams are a real thing).
About reality checks... they don't work for me. Either I know I am dreaming, and may or may not have control over the dream, either I don't know I am dreaming, and any kind of reality check will work exactly as it would in wake-life. I can see my own reflex in mirrors, I will not pass through objects, gravity will work exactly as I expect etc. I can do the opposite, though, and when I am having a lucid dream I can do reality checks that will either work or fail (that depends on both the kind of dream and my desire... I usually want dreams to have unexpected things happening to me).

Yet, one important thing, is that I like dreams, as strange and as unexpected they might be, to keep reality traits to the point that anything I might be able to learn in a dream, to be applicable in real life.
This particular case didn't happen to me, but I heard a story of a boy that was trying to learn how to use the bike without the extra wheels (those for kids). After he was feeling almost confident, he kept having dreams where he would ride his bike without support, and fell. Yet, the day he was able to ride it correctly in a dream, he felt confident enough to try it for real, and he was able to ride it without issues.

To me, similar (but not so obvious) things happened. Some of them helped me even avoid some car accidents as I had been "training" for those situation in dreams. Yet, even if it is fun to fly and similar... simply flying without seeing any connection to an actual equipment that helps me fly will not be beneficial and, on the contrary, can potentially make things harder to do for real if I simply want to "fly" in real life the same way I do in dreams.


So, to me dreams are a very interesting kind of game and simulation. The better they simulate real life things for me, the more I can learn/practice my skills while sleeping.
Also, when trying to learn things that I considered hard in the past, it was common to get the answer in dreams, even if somebody else in a dream gave me the answer and the explanation. Somehow my subconscious had found the answer.