What's Lucidity Like?

I am very interested!!

What is it like, having a Lucid Dream?

If i was good at lucid dreaming, i would make scenarios for myself, action movie style, like me being part of a swat team, fighting bad guys (so stereotypical lol).

Or i could be the enemy, taking on each and every single swat guys :bigteeth: :bigteeth:

Is that stuff possible?

Ps. Offtopic: I told my mom about Lucid Dreaming, and she said, that you should be tired after the dreams, because technically, the brain isnt resting. Is that true also?

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Originally Posted by rooky

I am very interested!!

What is it like, having a Lucid Dream?

If i was good at lucid dreaming, i would make scenarios for myself, action movie style, like me being part of a swat team, fighting bad guys (so stereotypical lol).

Or i could be the enemy, taking on each and every single swat guys :bigteeth: :bigteeth:

Is that stuff possible?

Ps. Offtopic: I told my mom about Lucid Dreaming, and she said, that you should be tired after the dreams, because technically, the brain isnt resting. Is that true also?
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Imagine being in a hyper-realistic computer game, or the Matrix, or something, with the feeling from being able to do whatever you wanted, and thats what its like, I reckon!

You kinda get a bit tired, but its more to do with the excitement than being more conscious. LDs can't last a huge amount of time, so you won't notice any tiredness anyway, I'd think

And everything will feel real? I mean, i've read posts where people felt wind, burning , etc!!

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Originally Posted by rooky

I am very interested!!

What is it like, having a Lucid Dream?

If i was good at lucid dreaming, i would make scenarios for myself, action movie style, like me being part of a swat team, fighting bad guys (so stereotypical lol).

Or i could be the enemy, taking on each and every single swat guys :bigteeth: :bigteeth:

Is that stuff possible?

Ps. Offtopic: I told my mom about Lucid Dreaming, and she said, that you should be tired after the dreams, because technically, the brain isnt resting. Is that true also?
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I'm not the most qualified person to answer this, but I have had 1 lucid dream, so I guess it's alright. :) It's a very strange feeling. For me it was like. . .the difference between being drugged and groggy and being at the top of a mountain. Everything suddenly felt crisp and clear, like I was seeing the world for the first time. I was dreaming I was at work, so the view wasn't spectacular, haha, but still, it was a great feeling.

From what I hear, with practice you can do almost anything you can imagine in a dream. I think the problems are probably a) trying not to lose lucidity while planning the whole "scenario," and b) not trying so hard to create something that you wake up. I guess someone who's more advanced in dream control could probably better explain it, but that's what I gather from the people I've talked to.

Also, I get where your mom is coming from, but I don't think your brain gets much "rest" in that sense, ever. I mean, most of the time, dreams are pretty crazy and involved, and they happen to us every night, so it's not like our brains shut down. The only difference with lucid dreaming(even though, since we're self-aware beings, it seems like a HUGE difference) is that we realize we're dreaming. Even if, when you're lucid, you create a galaxy or fly across the country or destroy a mountain, your brain is still getting the same amount of rest because it would be making up crazy dreams whether or not you were lucid.

On a personal note, I feel just as rested, if not more so, today after my LD, so I don't notice any immediate sleep deprivation effects. Except that I want to go to sleep so I can try again! :yumdumdoodledum:

~Jacqui

Thank you!

Last night i had my first lucid dream. It was great, there no after effects like sleep deprivation or something. And i agree with Jacqui, the only drawback is you wanna go to sleep again and try it again! :lol:

Anyway, on with the question...
When i first became lucid in my dream i got a weird feeling, i cannot explain it, it was just a weird pleasant feeling. Then i tried to test my lucidity and flew! That was amazing, it was such a great experience. then i decided i should talk to my dream characters. That was weird, i knew they weren't real, you see..

I guess the best thing about it would be when you get good at it you could make up scenarios and things like that! Maybe after you've found your dream-guide!

Thanks laconix buddy, i can't wait to find my DG, but first, LD's lol

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Originally Posted by rooky

I am very interested!!

What is it like, having a Lucid Dream?

If i was good at lucid dreaming, i would make scenarios for myself, action movie style, like me being part of a swat team, fighting bad guys (so stereotypical lol).

Or i could be the enemy, taking on each and every single swat guys :bigteeth: :bigteeth:

Is that stuff possible?

Ps. Offtopic: I told my mom about Lucid Dreaming, and she said, that you should be tired after the dreams, because technically, the brain isnt resting. Is that true also?
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YOU HAVE NO IDEA!!!! It's very hard to explain. Imagine the funnest thing you have ever done times 10 and being absolutely free of anything and everything and being able to do ANYTHING you want. Your just going to have to experience it for yourself. :) GOOD LUCK :wink:

Wow that's like trying to describe what an orange tastes like to someone who has never tasted it. You can describe it all you want, but when it happens you still think, "OH... see I thought more like an apple."

If I were to describe what it feels like, I'd have to say... Like underwater reality. The thing about lucid dreams is that they seem to always be a memory. Like regular dreams, the details fleet so quickly that it's hard to remember them with the clarity that you have other memories. But when you're in them, everything is so wild and realistic. The difference is that EVERYTHING is so unstable in a LD. Your hands will not look like your hands. They'll have an extra finger, or a couple of them look like toes. Or you have no reflection, or a distorted reflection.

Electronic items don't work properly most of the time. You have to figure out workarounds for a lot of things that you want to do.

The first description--being in a hyper-realistic video game is pretty close to what it's like. You *generally* don't control "everything", but you can come pretty darned close if you get skilled at it.

My advice to the learning to LD is to RC, RC, RC ALL THE TIME. If you have good dream recall, then dedicate one ENTIRE day to doing RC's every few minutes. I know it seems extreme, but I promise you that it will work. After you've dedicated an entire day to it, I almost guarantee you that you'll have a LD that night. The other advantage is that if you get into the habit of doing RC's all day, you'll have LD's much more frequently. The more you do something in a day, the more you do it in your sleep. That's why we so often dream of work/school.

The "brain not getting enough rest" is a very controversial topic here.... There's no evidence either way. So until some studies have been done, we really don't know for sure. The *general* consensus on this board is that it's completely harmless.

Good luck with your LDs!

IM NO EXPERT IN ANYTHING HERE

NEVER HAD A LD

(I HAVE BEEN RCING EVERY FEW MINUTES THE WHOLE DAY HOPE I GET MY FIRST LD TONIGHT)

ok so what i think is are you tired when you wake up from sleeping normally?

No

than why when you have a ld. the only thing different than a ld and a dream is a ld has you consioucse or somwht.

doesnt drain energy or anything right?

No lucid dreams dont drain your energy. (atleast not for me :wtf: ) anyway when i wake up from a LD i feel like someone injected liquid crack into my jugular. So no, i wake up better than normal. :banana:

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Wow that's like trying to describe what an orange tastes like to someone who has never tasted it. You can describe it all you want, but when it happens you still think, "OH... see I thought more like an apple."

If I were to describe what it feels like, I'd have to say... Like underwater reality. The thing about lucid dreams is that they seem to always be a memory. Like regular dreams, the details fleet so quickly that it's hard to remember them with the clarity that you have other memories. But when you're in them, everything is so wild and realistic. The difference is that EVERYTHING is so unstable in a LD. Your hands will not look like your hands. They'll have an extra finger, or a couple of them look like toes. Or you have no reflection, or a distorted reflection.

Electronic items don't work properly most of the time. You have to figure out workarounds for a lot of things that you want to do.

The first description--being in a hyper-realistic video game is pretty close to what it's like. You *generally* don't control "everything", but you can come pretty darned close if you get skilled at it.

My advice to the learning to LD is to RC, RC, RC ALL THE TIME. If you have good dream recall, then dedicate one ENTIRE day to doing RC's every few minutes. I know it seems extreme, but I promise you that it will work. After you've dedicated an entire day to it, I almost guarantee you that you'll have a LD that night. The other advantage is that if you get into the habit of doing RC's all day, you'll have LD's much more frequently. The more you do something in a day, the more you do it in your sleep. That's why we so often dream of work/school.

The "brain not getting enough rest" is a very controversial topic here.... There's no evidence either way. So until some studies have been done, we really don't know for sure. The *general* consensus on this board is that it's completely harmless.

Good luck with your LDs!



Wait, if its just like a memory then whats so special about it?

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Because memory is everything. Every experience is just there for an instant, and then it becomes a memory. Think of the past day. If you didn't remember it, it would be like it never existed for you. What you consider "the past" you don't think of as purely a memory, even though "memory" is the only way you can experience it now.

Now imagine that you could do ANYTHING today, and you became aware that everything you saw was yours. That's a pretty darn good memory.

Lucid dreams feel diffrent at diffrent times for me, sometimes I could be 10% sure it's a dream and run around doing very boring stupid stuff, sometimes I'm super lucid and I still doubt it, thats all they are is just like real life, or like normal dreams if your not lucid enough, my friend says their stored in long term memory that somehow makes them feel diffrent when you wake up, that might be how people with good long term memory might remember them better, and why the far past can seem like a dream, so basicly imagen a very vivid memory from childhood and thats exactly how it feels.

As for the "brain doesn't get enough sleep" theory it is completely false, the brain NEVER sleeps, inless your dead of course, were all conscous in are dreams it's just do we know it is a dream that is the only diffrents.

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Originally Posted by mystqjaq

Because memory is everything. Every experience is just there for an instant, and then it becomes a memory. Think of the past day. If you didn't remember it, it would be like it never existed for you. What you consider "the past" you don't think of as purely a memory, even though "memory" is the only way you can experience it now.

Now imagine that you could do ANYTHING today, and you became aware that everything you saw was yours. That's a pretty darn good memory.
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haha thanks for clearing that up for me...

well yeah i agree the brainn never sleeps, it works works works works and works, but does it ever complain,,,, nooo we should give our brains the day off lol :)

After an LD, especially a WILD, I feel 10x better than if I just slept, or slept and dreamed (no LD). And it lasts the whole day.

My wife things the same way, that any type of dreaming will make her tired. I think she thinks that because every time she dreams, she forces herself awake.. thus, not getting the most important part of sleep. Dreaming!

Wow thats whciked interesting.

AWEOSME! COMPLETLY AWESOME IN ALMOST EVERY WAY! That is what it's like.

I've always had more LDs than not and I have noticed many differences between them.

- When you realize that you are dreaming, your brain seems to expand and feel like its more open. My theory is that your concious feels more control, thus putting the brain more at ease.

- You become much more calmer. You feel like nothing can go wrong, since, unless you let it, you can't get hurt.

- You have a lot of fun because you can create what you desire. You wake up better because you weren't fearing loss of control in your dream even if that dream went well.

- It's just like thinking, only what you think comes to life.

That is really the best way I can compare to a non-lucid dream. I don't have many non-lucid dreams, but I am glad I don't have them. I like being in control.

As I have said before in another post, while in a lucid dream, it feels like my spine was replaced by a fluorescent light filled with marshmallows. I've also noticed that I feel very central - like I'm standing at the bottom of the inside of a globe. It's extremely vivid. Just think how the world around us, in real life, is viewed through our eyes. Then, take that and instead of going through the eyes or other senses, the world is produced directly in the brain without any external visual processing. It's like existing in an idea. Everything is EXACTLY the way you think it should be. That may or may not include things that make sense.

It's a daydream to the MAX.

Lucidity? Imagine your environment being real as usual, then add extra reality to that. That is lucidity. Nothing compares to it.

I think the feeling of being lucid is a completely new feeling.
A mixture of Subconscious and Conscious = SUPER MEGA EXQUISIT ULTRA FEELING

lucidity for me used to be like The coolest feeling ever. An alternate reality. Now i dont have the extreme feeling right when i become lucid, but its still the coolest thing ever :) (besides that extreme feeling almost wakes me up! ) The best lucids for me are from WILDs because you didnt become unconisous at all.

had two lucid dreams! well it was exciting... (read dream journal) (posting second ld soon) i was excited, but stayed calm and they both laster very long. um it basically the feeling of being around somone u really like. ur so excited, that good description?

lucidity is cool, especially when it's so life-like you have do several reality checks just to make sure

Lucidity is a unique mode of consciousness in it's own right (by almost any definition), so it can be hard to explain, and given that it is completely introspective, presumingly highly subjective.

Yume's descriptin of a sudden 'opening' is very good. It is certainly a revelation every time, it's just like a switch that turns on, and the dream becomes clearer and you're suddenly given control.

These raves about "hyper-real", though, are optimistic. So far my LDs have still been dreams, and therefore seem slightly detached from your head, but it still is by any meants a solid, tangible, and realistic environment, in which you can have a lot of fun.

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Originally Posted by TripleX223

had two lucid dreams! well it was exciting... (read dream journal) (posting second ld soon) i was excited, but stayed calm and they both laster very long. um it basically the feeling of being around somone u really like. ur so excited, that good description?
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I never thought of it this way, but you're right! I think back to "first dates" or no being able to wait to get to school to see a certain person (girl.. lol) just to "see" them. But you're right, that feeling is very similar to lucid dreaming. Again, unless you've done it, it's hard to explain, but this one rang true for me. Good job.

Blueman also hit something on the head. When youre doing something that doesn't feel real. My family just went to Arizona a couple weeks ago (I had a DILD while there! woohoo!) But I remember driving to the airport, waiting in the airport, flying there, and getting there I kept plugging my nose and breathing. My wife finally asked what I Was doing. I said "reality checks" because I don't travel much, and have anxiety. She looked at me and said "oh.. that lucid stuff...." like I was nuts.

Oh well! If she never does it, she'll never know! :) I was just hoping one of those times I would have been able to breath. Except two times.. one when we got to ride ATVs in the Imperial Sand Dunes all day (Glamis) and the next when we got home... I like traveling (minus the anxiety), but I LOVE getting home. :)

Well for me, it's kind of hard to explain.

Everything is much more alive than in real life, it has a strange sort of energy. Looking at your hands in an LD, you can see all the tiny lines and pores of your hand identical to real life. I seriously can't tell the difference. In one LD I studied the dream world just by sitting in a chair and looking at the surroundings, and in the LD I realized it's exactly the same as real life.

So basically, it's the same consciousness you have in real life... except with the knowledge that you control everything and it's all created by you. It's really amazing, and I can't believe not many people know about this, or just shrug it off. I really still can't believe some of the things I've seen/done in my LDs.

lucid dreams are like being really drunk or high and walking around a fantasy world

I'd say that lucid dreaming's like being tipsy in real life except it's all under your control. You do what you want when you want and most of the time you have fun or feel plain out happy.

If you want to walk through walls and talk to a ghost, you can do it and it'll feel just like how it would feel if it were to happen in real life [which in such an example it shouldn't happen IRL but it does feel very real]. The only exception to that are low quialty or short lucids where I tend to lose the dream over all.

LDs wouldn't make you tired, I mean, at the most maybe you'd be a bit tired mentally from an action packed dream but that feelings never lased long for me, unless I wake up from an alarm during an LD, I feel so energized that I'm happy to take on the day.

It's probably different for everyone, but I will say what it's like for me.
Imagine the world and your awareness of it. Imagine it amplified by 100%. This makes it like reality on a little better, however I am not saying we should devote our lives to dreaming, because they are better things that can only be done in real life.
Imagine that the world is a little hazy, and that you can't really see it, you can sense what's there. Vision isn;t the primary sense in an LD, you have to think about things to do them. you can't just move your leg, you have to think about it.

For me when I'm luicd everything is calm , peaceful and quite I just get a sense of it kinda like everthing is alright and simple :content:

From my personal experience, lucidity releases an entire second consciousness; an astral conscious borne not of the physical plane, but manifested in its entirety by energy. The feeling itself is hard to explain, but to say the least, it it extremely surreal (especially at first) and also very addictive; when I first began experiencing lucidity, I found myself yearning for more throughout much of my waking life.

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when I first began experiencing lucidity, I found myself yearning for more throughout much of my waking life.
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Yeah, sometimes even now I yearn to just LD instead of be awake but I don't want to always use it as an escape and therefore make my life suffer in ways, it's more like therapy in ways I guess since I never remember what stresses plagued me while LDing, just the good things so I never carry that bad feeling from one day to the next by having it exist in my sleep.

I agree with deepthought here, like another conciousness and extremely surreal. I amy have only had 1 "proper" lucid dream but the feeling is amazing.

To me, the first Lucid I had, I had a this weird feeling in my stomach, its hard to explain. But everything seemed just extremely clear, and sharp.

Now when I have a Lucid Dream, since im so use to it, it just seems like everything else in my waking life, the only difference is that I can do what I want.

I feel GREAT when i wake up from an LD and am usually a lot more introspective and outgoing. I feel like i have an ability to analyze thing more thouroughly and make sense of most problems.

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And everything will feel real? I mean, i've read posts where people felt wind, burning , etc!!
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There was this one movie called umm i forgot but it began with a 'p'. I didnt come out long ago, but these people could do whatever!

Now I've got the ultimate explanation to what it feels like to become lucid:

Imagine you are watching your dream on TV. You don’t feel very excited because it doesn’t feel like you are living inside the TV, you’re merely observing it. Suddenly you remember your intention of becoming lucid and then it feels like you’re pulling your conscious mind into the dream world, inside the TV.

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Originally Posted by rooky

I am very interested!!

What is it like, having a Lucid Dream?

Is that stuff possible?

Ps. Offtopic: I told my mom about Lucid Dreaming, and she said, that you should be tired after the dreams, because technically, the brain isnt resting. Is that true also?
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Question 1: just like a regular dream except you know you are dreaming, and therefore if you are skilled enough (not me) can control what happens. It may or may not be more vivid than a regular dream, and becoming Lucid normally comes with a feeling of ecstacy, but other than that it is just like another dream, except you aware of the fact that this isn't reality, and your subconcious is making everything.

Question 2: Yes, AnYTHING is possible in a Lucid Dream if you have enough skill and experience. The first time you achieve lucidity you may not be able to achieve all the stuff you mentioned, but with practice, absolutely!

Question 3: False. That is complete BS. You are still experiencing your REM sleep, and are therefore just as relaxed, if not more, because good dreams tend to leave you more rested. There is the possibility that maybe lucid dreaming occasionally might (in other words nothing to worry about) interfere with your subconcious sorting things out, but under those situations your subconcious won't give you any control, and will do what it pleases whether you like it or not, so basically, there is no risk to worry about from Lucid Dreaming.

My very first lucid experience was exhilarating to say the least. Now-a-days, they are still very awesome but in some ways the novelty has worn off. Rather than simply being in awe of the fact that I'm able to do it I'm more prepared to do what I have planned to do. Remaining calm certainly goes a long way towards achieving your goals.

I liken LDs to having a recording of your wildest dream, viewing said dream via virtual reality goggles and assuming any role you can muster the volition to embody. All the while, knowing that you can tweak the controls and do amazing things. That description is more cryptic than anything else but the fact is that different dreams and - in fact - different dreamers are different. Your level of control varies from dream to dream, as does your level of awareness. For example, you may be aware that you are dreaming yet still be convinced that the "world" and "characters" around you are external reality as opposed to being mere constructs of your own mind. Once you reach that level of lucidity (where you are aware that it's all in your mind) you have new doors opened to you.

One unique quality of LDs (well, all dreams) is that you have the faculty of spontaneous knowledge. By that, I mean that you may be in your "room" or "school" and you know that you are. The catch is that many times you "know" you are when, in reality, the environment may not resemble your actual bedroom or school at all. My point is that in dreams we often simply "know" rather than "find out" - as we do in real life - by taking clues from our environment. Dream knowledge is simply taken for granted.

And finally, I find that when I LD I wake up refreshed and filled with a sense of well-being and accomplishment. Never a tired awakening from an LD. At least, not for me. Lucid sleep is believed to be at least as restful as normal sleep.

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And everything will feel real? I mean, i've read posts where people felt wind, burning , etc!!
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Yes, everything feels real. And you can feel too, as long as you think you will feel, which you most likely will think due to everything feeling so real. It does not feel as much as it does in reality, though, not for me at least.

you can even taste its so cool:)

The feeling is really awesome! Everything seems so real, it's hard to believe it's just a product of your imagination. Even the things that can't happen in RL feel real! You can feel the wind, and everything else as well. And no, it doesn't make you tired, it actually makes you feel refreshed in the morning when you wake up, and sever hours (sometimes days) afterwards.

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Originally Posted by rooky

I am very interested!!

What is it like, having a Lucid Dream?

If i was good at lucid dreaming, i would make scenarios for myself, action movie style, like me being part of a swat team, fighting bad guys (so stereotypical lol).

Or i could be the enemy, taking on each and every single swat guys :bigteeth: :bigteeth:

Is that stuff possible?

Ps. Offtopic: I told my mom about Lucid Dreaming, and she said, that you should be tired after the dreams, because technically, the brain isnt resting. Is that true also?

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It's incredible, but I can't explain how it feels... It doesn't feel like being awake and aware.

As to what your mom told you, that's not true. Not in my cases at least. It certainly makes you WANT to go back to sleep to get back into the dream, but it doesn't make you tired.

Lucid dreams can be weird... It's like the rules change, 'cause sometimes I can fly, cast down fireballs and meteors, and then the next time I have a lucid dream I can't do anything I want.

I've had too many lucid dreams to count, but I STILL find it very, very difficult to become lucid. Haven't had a lucid dream in at least a month so far... *sighs* That's unusual.

Oh, and lucid dreams, at least for me, are far, far, ffffaaaarrrrr easier to remember than a normal, non-lucid dream.

Whats Lucidity like? Well thats easy it's like being awake, but being able to do whatever you want WHATEVER YOU WANT.

It's exactly like the name: Extremely lucid...

Imagine a dream, it's like a movie, you just see it, and there is nothing you can do... Now suddenly, there is this incredible, lucid sensation, it feels as if you've just been enlightened or something... You feel bright, all is clear... It is really an incredible feeling once you finally realise you are dreaming... The word "Lucid" is the only way to describe it.

Now AFTER the realisation, the real fun begins... You can indeed do EVERYTHING you want... It might take some practise though...

I hope that answers the question...


Cheers,

Me

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What's it like having a lucid dream?



Is that stuff possible?

Ps. Offtopic: I told my mom about Lucid Dreaming, and she said, that you should be tired after the dreams, because technically, the brain isnt resting. Is that true also?

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having a lucid dream feels like you're awake. I usually get the full feeling of it when I do FILD even though they dont last very long. But yeah, anything that your imagination will allow you to do when you're lucid is possible. And dreaming doesnt make you tired, because everyone dreams every night whether you remember it or not, and it's just your subconcious doing all the work. And the brain doesn't really rest anyway because it has to be sending signals to your organs to keep your body alive or else your heart would shut down and you'd die.
hope i helped answer some questions!:D

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you can even taste its so cool:)

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can anyone taste in non-lucid dreams? cause i haven't been able to until this past year when I had a dream that i was eating brownies and i could really taste them, maybe i had a problem before or something! i dont know

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dude everything is posible in a dream, you can do things that normal people would kill to do (just that they dont know about LDs)
and you can also improve your senses in your dreams,
its better than matrix (movie)
(even though is pretty much the same thing)

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Wait, if its just like a memory then whats so special about it?

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dude.... its not like a memory you are living the it at the moment , the thing is that if it is a non-exelent lucid dream, when you wake up you dont remember all details

Let me explain some things...
As said, LDing is definitly 'living in the moment.' It's not like you wake up, remembering having done things. DURING the dream, you are there, deciding to do things. It's not just a memory. And no, it doesn't make you tired. You are just as awake. In fact, I personally am always a lot MORE awake. Lucidity is great. it feels amazing.

I dont have many skills at lucid dreaming but its still one of the most fun things I ever do in life. Pretty much anything you can do for fun in real life you can do in a lucid dream.