Thread: I AM TOO ACCEPTING OF THE UNNATURAL!!!!

Dream logic is crazy. Nothing ever seems out of the ordinary unless you think about it.

It's like that for everyone, so far as I know.

It's like that for everyone, so far as I know.[/b]

Yes. At least it's like that for every I know in real life.

Seeing illogical things is a great dream sign.

Exactly. Everyone has that. If we didn't, pretty much all of our dreams would be lucid. The trick is to "train" your mind not to accept everything just like that. Whenever something even remotely strange happens in your waking life, don't rationalize it. First, ask yourself if you're dreaming and do a reality check, even if you're certain you're awake. Doing this will make your mind more critical.

Yep, I'd say that's something that virtually all of us go through. You wake up thinking "how could I have not known it was a dream?" And then, for me at least, I'll become lucid in the most natural-type dreams that I have. It's weird, but there ya go.

Originally posted by SanCho14jfm
Recently my dream recall has been very good but it has shown me that I am just horrible accepting something as reality...
I am just a way too accepting person. I thought I would share that.

I have the same characteristic, but I do not think it is a bad thing. You can make it work for you. Most people want lucidity for dream control, or so they can do a specific task. However, because my mind is so out there, I will expect wild things to happen, and they do when I don't even have control. People will whine "I wish I could have a lucid so I could do this" and then I laugh because I say "I did that and I was not even lucid".

It's the same for me, and probably for the most other people aswell.

It seems like in most dreams we go with the flow, and don't question anything.

There's some zombies - I better run.

I'm a different person, a different sex, or a different animal, oh well isn't it fun?

I agree with TygrHawk that's its surprising when we have very realistic dreams and we become lucid over a minor detail.

I think that's whey so many of use try WILD, so that we carry with us awareness into the dream, rather than trying to provoke it from within a dream.

(Although I've only had lucid dreams successfully from MILD)

Originally posted by Asclepius

I agree with TygrHawk that's its surprising when we have very realistic dreams and we become lucid over a minor detail.

Prime Example: I've had some Really crazy dreams...People shooting at each other for no reasons, zombies, PLaying myself as a Third Person video game....etc. Yet one of my moer recent Lucids happen when I saw a Light flash in my room, and realized there was no real source.

Id like to stab myself sometimes..

Originally posted by SanCho14jfm
Recently my dream recall has been very good but it has shown me that I am just horrible accepting something as reality. For example several nights ago I had a dream that I was stranded in Rome, yet I was under the triumph arch of paris, and there was an avalanche running thorugh the city...an airplane landed in the avalanche, then i woke up. Last night I had a dream that I had thousands of glove-compartments in my car and inside each of them were different western guns, mind you I am not a gun-owner nor have I ever seen a real gun. I accepted both of these absolutely ridicoulous situations without question!

I am just a way too accepting person. I thought I would share that.

Well, the most important thing that you need to understand is that your Dream Self is not exactly identical with your Waking Self -- as psychological and spiritual structures, there is a lot of difference. The purpose -- the true purpose -- behind lucid dreaming is in the fascilitating the integration of the Waking and Dreaming 'selves'.... what Lucidity does is it brings waking insight and perspective to the Dreaming Self. Before the civilizing influence of Lucidity, the Dream Self is likely to be primitive and amorphous. Oh, but I should mention that, years ago, without knowing much about Lucidity, dreamers did largely the same thing but simply through 'suggestion' -- people would will themselves to have more 'coherent' dreams.

Just recently I had a dream in which a sense of reality and perspective were being 'calibrated' into my dreams -- I had the sense that there were two separate flows entering into my mind and perceptions -- one flow was the raw information and details, but there was a second flow of data consisting of quality, dimensional or degree measures to be applied to the pure details of the dream. I remember years ago having dreams about tiny toylike cars, that I could nevertheless still enter into and drive -- paradoxical, no? Well, with 2nd input line going into my dreaming, conveying a sense for degree and dimension, such disproportions should no longer occur.