Thread: Trapped in dream world

Originally Posted by The Wig

That concept was in the game Oblivion actually. It was neat concept, but you could die and stuff, which wasn't cool (it was for a game).

Don't worry about it though.

I liked that part of the game.

- Your body can only sleep for so long before it's forced to wake up.

Originally Posted by Lucid Seeker

Call me crazy but i wouldn't mind being in a lucid dream for an incredibly long time, forever would be just on going madness but you can't exactly get bored with the amount of stuff you can do and try out.

Well... If you don't think much about your waking life during that last longing lucid I guess it would be fun...
It would be useful to lucid dream if I got in a coma... But I don't think it's possible... What a boring state!

This concept is part of the movie Waking Life. Like people have said, maybe this happens when you die; who knows. I can imagine worse fates than being stuck in a lucid dream, however

I also have that "fear", I mean I know I have to wake up sooner or later (specially when you are enjoying the dream) but I think he refers trapped as in the dream lasting too long, I mean toooooooooooooo long so long its not funny anymore XD, like sleeping 8 hours in WL, but somehow the dream time was extended to say 1000000 hours or whatever.

I once went insane in a dream. Literally, it was only when I woke up that I realised I had gone insane

Originally Posted by Fordy

I once went insane in a dream. Literally, it was only when I woke up that I realised I had gone insane

So, are you still insane now?

Originally Posted by Matt5678

i know it sounds stupid but i have a fear that once i become lucid in a dream ill never be able to leave. anyone else have this fear? and how did you defeat it

If you have this fear, make sure you never try LSD or mushrooms I'm not sure how you could combat this fear - being trapped in a LD forever sounds pretty sweet to me. I usually have the opposite problem...

Just think - even though this is an impossible hypothetical, if you actually were trapped in a LD, you could just recreate the world and stick yourself in it, and you'd never know the difference anyways

iv been stuck in a ld a few times(pretty damn scary.) Iv read it depends when u have your ld, if u have it early in the morning it's hard to stay in ur ld, but if u have your ld early in the night sometimes it can be very hard to wake up.

Originally Posted by MrGrEmLiN

So, are you still insane now?

Nope. In the dream I was trying to resurrect my cat and I ended up stuffing him and then pretending he was alive

It's impossible to get "trapped" in a LD literally, your body has to come out of that REM cycle sometime... unless... unless you got bit by a tsetse fly, or went into a coma...

Nevertheless, what's with everyone saying they wouldn't mind "living" in lucidity? There is a real world out there, and frankly, I'd take reality any day.

Originally Posted by Silvanus350

It's impossible to get "trapped" in a LD literally, your body has to come out of that REM cycle sometime... unless... unless you got bit by a tsetse fly, or went into a coma...

Nevertheless, what's with everyone saying they wouldn't mind "living" in lucidity? There is a real world out there, and frankly, I'd take reality any day.

Yeah, I don't think I'd like to stay in one forever either... Lucids can be fun, but after some days, not being able to turn the lights on and off would get pretty annoying!
Plus, you can't check the time... So you can't really recreate a normal life...

I think lucidity would only be fun to live for us because we live in reality and it is different.

If we lived in lucidity our whole lives[hypothetically] then woke up into real life we would find it extraordinary about how certain everything is, we'd love it!

.. but we wouldn't want to get trapped here

I dont think anyone would ever want to be in a lucid dream longer than a week. Imagine if you were in a lucid dream for what felt like a hundred years and then you woke up and it had really been only 2 hours. It would be almost impossible to get used to the limitations and laws in real life that werent there in a dream. It would be like 100 years of your life meant absolutely nothing. I'd be a shivering nervous wreck if that happened. A whole day might be fun but years would be too much.

Maybe I'm speaking out of ignorance, but whoever said they lived in a dream for 100 years is fool of it. In lucid dreams, you control space, and what does space directly relate to, children?

Time! Very good kids!

So time manipulation is very plausible just as space manipulation is. You felt a dream table and you felt 100 dream years fly by, but when you wake up, you know the table wasn't real and you know the 100 years wasn't real. But you don't go around saying, "Hey guys, I totally just touched a table in my dream!" and you don't go around saying "Hey guys, I totally just lived 100 years in my dream!" You just go around saying, "Hey guys, it FELT like I touched a table and it FELT like i lived 100 years." What happens and what feels like it happens are different, and I think this guy is just mucking up the difference.

Again, maybe I'm speaking out of ignorance.

a lot of people say it would be fun to be trapped in a dream for a long time, but I think I would go crazy after a couple of days. Maybe even just after one day. Dreams can get pretty distorted, and like some other people said, not being able to turn on and off lights, not being able to check the time, only talking to idiotic DC's... not to mention not being able to wake up if you tried... but I dont think you should worry, the chances of that happening are unbelievably slim if it's even possible.

It would be quite nice being God for a few days.

As a matter of fact I've actually found myself unable to awake from the dream several times. Two of the dreams in question were lucid, and in one of them nothing, not even the old trick I've came up with as a child (namely, to close my eyes and jump from a relatively high spot - instead of hitting the ground I'd find myself waking up in my bed) did work for me. If not for the cat who happened to pound at my bedroom's door (he wanted to get in) the dream would last even longer. Even before I've started to dream lucidly, in my early teens, I'd experience vivid false awakenings, some of them leaving me with a desperate feeling that I'd never awake.

Care to hear about these two lucid dreams? I can post them to the "Lucid experiences" section if you're interested.

"The sand that is a dream cannot kill me, and there are no dreams within dreams."

J.L. Borges

Originally Posted by Kacper

As a matter of fact I've actually found myself unable to awake from the dream several times. Two of the dreams in question were lucid, and in one of them nothing, not even the old trick I've came up with as a child (namely, to close my eyes and jump from a relatively high spot - instead of hitting the ground I'd find myself waking up in my bed) did work for me. If not for the cat who happened to pound at my bedroom's door (he wanted to get in) the dream would last even longer. Even before I've started to dream lucidly, in my early teens, I'd experience vivid false awakenings, some of them leaving me with a desperate feeling that I'd never awake.

Care to hear about these two lucid dreams? I can post them to the "Lucid experiences" section if you're interested.

"The sand that is a dream cannot kill me, and there are no dreams within dreams."

J.L. Borges

post them!

These were quite a while ago, so I can't really remember them too well, but I have had nightmares in the past that seemed like they would go on forever. The one that comes to mind was something like, I wanted to get out of the house and my parents were chasing after me for some reason. I don't know why, but anyway. When they were about to get me, I would "wake up"... and it'd start all over again. it was a short, 30-45 second scene that repeated itself like that for 5 or 6 times! I did become lucid from all the repetition, of course, but I still didn't really have any power over what was going on. Anyway, it's a bit scary at the time, but after I woke up I was fine. The others are right of course, you can't really get stuck in a dream even if it feels that way. And, uh, sorry I derailed the thread a little.

There was a story a while back, might have been here or on ld4all cant remember, but the guy said half way thru an LD the scene dissolved to blackness and he was suspended in blackness unable to move or wake up for what he felt like "days." It was pretty scary but I think in the end it turned out he was bs'ing. No worries, you'll always escape the dream world, for me I close my eyes real tight and focus on waking up and that gets me out everytime

hmmm.

someone needs to learn how to do this for when they go to jail.

that would actually be almost like living free.