Thread: HOW REAL?

when you are in a high level of lucidity how real is everything? e.g can you touch,smell,see,hear and feel everything around you

As soon as I have the dream I asume everything is real but then after a few seconds when i become lucid I can see little things that arnt real, like maybe I only have 4 fingers and just little things that are weird but once I become lucid I guess you can make anything seem as real or as fake as you desire, haha

Some are very real, my last were I was floating just above an asphault road and I asked a dream character what it was like to be a dream character was very real. I was floating so close to the surface of the road, I could feel by skin brush against it occationally.

Others are very poor. In a LD I had back in Jan. I had almost no visual, almost all I could see was just a green blur, and dream spinning did not help much.

It depends on the dream. For many, lucidity and realism vary just like waking world consciousness and detail. If you're not paying any particular attention to a sound, smell, or view of an object, while awake, they can become obscure, and fade away into everything else.
Same thing with dreaming. If you're fully attentive to your senses while lucid, things can take on a supernatural clarity because, even if you don't know you're doing it, your mind can Create more detail than you're used to seeing in waking life. Sounds can be more crisp, smells can be stronger and detail can be so clear and precise that, if you made the conscious effort to, you can see the molecules that make up your dream scenery around you.

It all depends on how aware you are. Like when you're awake and something terrifying and/or dangerous is happening, sometimes you can be so reflectively aware that time can seem to slow down and your senses sharpen. Your perception deepens because of how attentive you are to what's going on. Your dream senses can fluctuate in the same way.

In my lucids, everything seems absolutely real, and tangible. I can smell, hear, taste, feel, the whole works. It's wonderful. Other than that, though, I think it depends on who you are.

high level lucids are more real than waking life sometimes (greater clarity, intensity of lines/colours/senses).

yet at the same tame lower level lucids can be very vague and fuzzy.

there is an entire continuum of lucidity.

ya it all depends I remember getting stabbed in the arm and hit hurt so much that I didn't even decide to stab him until I was over the pain.