Thread: How well can you visualize and lucid dream? Possible connection between those two.

Okay, I'll add my 2 cents worth:

I am probably an 8 on your visualization scale (particularly my visual and auditive and tactile imagination ability is well developed, but I can't imagine smells at all), and I have at least one LD per week.

I have actually experimented with visualization during lucid dreaming, and my experiece is that imagination works exactly the same in dreaming as it does during waking reality. In other words, the visualized image appears on a separate "plane of existence" from the lucid dream, the same as it appears separate from waking reality. Consequently, I do not believe that imagination (or visualization ability) and lucid dreaming are closely related.

Originally Posted by Voldmer

Okay, I'll add my 2 cents worth:

I am probably an 8 on your visualization scale (particularly my visual and auditive and tactile imagination ability is well developed, but I can't imagine smells at all), and I have at least one LD per week.
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I was going to mention that about the scale. While I am a 10 for the ability to fully immerse in imagery and daydream, I can not actually recreate any form of smell and only vaguely the sense of taste. Sageous once purposed this is due to the sense of smell being wired to stay active in the real world while the other senses can be free to dream. Basically animals need to wake up when they smell something wrong, so perhaps the wiring is very different. Taste on the other hand is more than 50% composed of smell. Taste is both smell and input from taste buds. I am not sure anyone can max out visualization that involves smell. In dreams I have worked very hard to actually smell things and at best it is like having a bad cold.