Thread: How much real is the lucid world?

Hi everyone, just another one of my crazy questions

Haven't succeeded in WILD yet. And have been reading that lucid dreams can be more vivid and clear than usual dreams.

Just wondering... How realistic are lucid dreams?
How much content your brain is able to draw for you? Any details missing?

Like in computer graphics, is the brain able to supply the "bandwidth" required for a realistic look?

For example, in your lucid dreams, if you look at a building, do you see all the windows detailed like real world? Or you just see an approximation of it?
Are the laws of physics 100 percent accurate there?

Any replies would be most appreciated.

Yours.

Originally Posted by graphicsgriffin

Hi everyone, just another one of my crazy questions

Haven't succeeded in WILD yet. And have been reading that lucid dreams can be more vivid and clear than usual dreams.

Just wondering... How realistic are lucid dreams?
How much content your brain is able to draw for you? Any details missing?

Like in computer graphics, is the brain able to supply the "bandwidth" required for a realistic look?

For example, in your lucid dreams, if you look at a building, do you see all the windows detailed like real world? Or you just see an approximation of it?
Are the laws of physics 100 percent accurate there?

Any replies would be most appreciated.

Yours.

Well in my dreams they look more clear and real than anything you would see in real life. So from what you have sad it has bandwidth and then some. Most building if you are just passing by I would say have about 60-80% accuracy but if you really look at them it shoots well over 100%.

I find it's really a large spectrum of possible clarity. I sometimes have "fuzzy" dreams, sometimes more or less like real life, and sometimes a sort of heightened awareness of my surroundings.

Yep, it changes with each dream usually, in some dreams colours are much more vibrant then real life and scenes breathtakingly realistic, other times they can be fuzzy with really poor colour and clarity.
If you dig around you'll find methods of enhancing dream realism and 'picture quality' .

I often comment to myself while lucid that the brains graphics card is awesome, its certainly capable of rendering a very realistic scene fit with reflections, shadows and perfect water effects heh. Apparently the reason for this is that the same part of the brain and the same processes used to model the outside world are also used when modelling the inside world of dreams.

If you think about it, everything you see while awake is just the brains model of the world in your head... your eyes recieve the light, and its carried as electrical pulses through the brain which is then processed and the scene created. In dreams the data just comes from the inside rather then the outside and your brain creates the image just the same.

Just to echo what RooJ said; the images we see when we are awake are processed through the brain before we see them so when we dream our brain brings all the things we see back up so it is possible to see something 100% the same as RL. Also many people seem to exp. increased clarity in some dreams which i guess is the brain sharpening the image for you due to some reason, while others have hazzy dreams which could mean the memory retreval isnt perfect, the other explanation could be how good your recall is of the particular dream.

Just another point on realism in dreams from personal exp. i find that you can exp. everything you can in RL. Now this sounds freaky but you get used to it, it does however in my case fluctuate in how realistic the dream is. Something that springs to mind after last nights strange LD is exp. pain in my dreams. I have felt pain a fair bit in dreams, this was really bad at first as i would wake up and have to check my self over for injuries and that sort of thing as i would stress out about it. These days i just take it for granted, pain is something that comes from the brain interacting with its enviroment so if the environment is a LD then i guess it makes sense that i can hurt in it (you havent been pissed off till you feel like you have paper cut yourself in a dream and wake up due to it).

you havent been pissed off till you feel like you have paper cut yourself in a dream and wake up due to it.

Or you feel like you've been stabbed/peirced through the sides, 3 spears in the right side of your ribcage, 3 in the left... damn that hurts.