Changing Light Levels In Dreams

[jerichom]

I had this dream when I COULD turn on the light. It went like this: I was fighting some zombies and they were too strong for me and my sidekick to fight. So we hopped in a tank nearby. But it was dark in there. My sidekick said look for the lightswitch and I did. I found the switch and actually turned the light on. In every website about lucid dreams they said its IMPOSSIBLE to change light levels. But I just DID. can someone explain this to me?

[goku4ever]

its not impossible to change light levels in dreams, its just not normally doable through a light switch, because in a dream your brain cant comprehend the action of flipping a switch changing the level of light. At least, thats what someone else on here said before

[Jalexxi]

Changing light levels somehow seems very troublesome in dreams. Usually, when a light level in a dream is set, it does not change untill it has an opportunity to do in a radical fashion (i.e. total scene switch). Dreams seem to avoid changing light levels in dreams in view of the dreamer, for some reason. I personally have had a lucid where everything was getting darker, but for the darkening to occur my dream used all sorts of tricks to obstruct my vision of the light. For example, I was looking at a window from which light came, and the light level remained the same throughout. Then suddenly a door closed between me and the window, and when I opened it again the window was a whole lot darker. I don't know why adjusting light levels is a problem, so I'm not sure what it means that you can. Maybe you can describe in more detail what happened? I'm pretty sure it couldn't have gone like in real life.

[jerichom]

it was like in real life where I was trying to find the switch because it was dark. And when I found it I turned it on and the tank slowly got brighter. After that I put my hand out the window and said "This is stupid if it wont work" and suddenly a black dragon popped out of my palm.

[Awhislyle]

I turned on a lightswitch in a lucid about a week ago. I laughed after I did it too, because I thought it was funny that I just disproved quite a number of sources.