Thread: This Idea Confuses Me

Originally Posted by DrTechnical

I'm no psychologist, but isn't this simply a manifestation of the subconscious mind?
I've always considered conversations with dream characters as convdersations with my
sub-conscious. Sometimes they offer very profound insites. This too is not surprising if you
believe that humans never really forget anything, and that your subconscious has access to
the totality of information that you've accumulated over the years.
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That would be my bet too. Also, as normalish humans we don't expect to be able to read eachothers minds, and you expect the person you are talking to not to say something you knew they would say unless you're asking an obvious/rhetorical/stupid question. This I assume manifests in your dreams and because only what your mind expects deep down will happen in a Lucid unless you tell it what to expect (like an island behind the door), so since you expect people not to say something you know they will say, you don't know what they will say. I think this is the same thing that causes the island behind the door type thing to be challenging because you have to overcome a deeply ingrained expectation that, for example, behind a door there is a room.

Originally Posted by PenguinLord13

That would be my bet too. Also, as normalish humans we don't expect to be able to read eachothers minds, and you expect the person you are talking to not to say something you knew they would say unless you're asking an obvious/rhetorical/stupid question. This I assume manifests in your dreams and because only what your mind expects deep down will happen in a Lucid unless you tell it what to expect (like an island behind the door), so since you expect people not to say something you know they will say, you don't know what they will say. I think this is the same thing that causes the island behind the door type thing to be challenging because you have to overcome a deeply ingrained expectation that, for example, behind a door there is a room.
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When I talk to people in my dreams, they speak with a vocabulary that I never use, it's almost like it's someone else having my dream, it's crazy. It's amazing how dreams can manifest your creativity and you can think of something that you would never come up with while being awake.