Thread: Not sure I get it

i kinda see what you mean.

you're just different.

LD is when you know when your dreaming.
and obviously you know that all the time.
but for noobs or just ppl who arent like you, cant tell if they are in a dream or not.
like if I was in a dream, i would think its real life until i wake up in my bed.
but basically you can tell the difference between dreaming and your waking life (which is extroadinary by the way)
any way i hope this clears thing out for you.



"You know, they say that dreams are real only as long as they last. Couldn’t you say the same thing about life?"

- Waking Life (the movie)


Edit: oh by the way could you tell me how you can tell your dreaming in your dreams all the time? cause its hard for me. is there some sort of secret that you dont tell ppl or something?

Thanks - I would really like to figure out how I do it so I can share it with others. I wasn't sure if I was understanding the concept of what lucid dreaming is.

I see four different aspects of a lucid dream, each as a continuum.

1. Awareness that one is dreaming (this is usually the one standard people use to call something "lucid")
2. Control of your surroundings
3. How clear and realistic things appear
4. How aware you are of the outside (real) world

It is this last one that people don't seem to touch upon much. It does figure in to the monthly "tasks," since you must remember the specifics of the task and recall it in the dream.

But the most intense LDs I've had have included this last component in a way where if I want, I can take a moment within a dream to remember things such as what date and day of the week it is in real life, what I ate for dinner that night, what is on my schedule for the next day, etc. Making this connection between the dream world and real world feels to me like having an intense level of understanding of what is going on.