Thread: why dont light switches work in dreams?

I believe it is because the brain has difficulty producing sudden bright light in our dreams. When I have had light switches work in dreams the light is either dim, or comes on and slowly gets brighter.

Or it could be because one person had trouble with lights, he told his friends who now believe that lights won't work in their dreams. They have a dream the light switches don't work because they remember their friend telling them that light switches don't work in dreams. They experience it and they tell their friends, who tell their friends etc. You see it could just be snowballing of a commonly known lie that is affecting people's dreams.

Well said Goldney. You may well be right, infact I think that is probably the correct answer to at least half of all the questions ever asked on this forum.
Apart from our bodies physical limitation's in what dream sights, sounds and feelings it can produce the rest of the experience is subjective expectation.

i cant remember trying lights but my comp always crashes, BSOD or jsut 60+ popups when i turn on, usually i have to use it to save the world and i panic and just run away.