Is it all possible?

[rookybeats]

I haven't had one yet, but from reading other posts... ANYTHING is possible in lucid dreaming.. Sorry for making threads one after the other, I'm just getting excited lol. Is it true? Can anything be achieved?

[Hazel]

Well, ALMOST anything is possible. Most of it depends on your level of control, but some things just can't be done. For instance, you couldn't come up with a new color, no matter how hard you tried.

[Spamtek]

I've heard of somebody who dreamed of a new color once (I think it was best described as being yellow and blue simultaneously without being green), and people who AP often experience colors, sounds, and other sensations that the brain by all understanding shouldn't be able to perceive. If you interpret APs/OBEs as being particularly vivid/spiritualized lucid dreams, then it does seem seeing a new color could be possible. I think remembering what it looked like after the fact might be a difficulty, though.

[BeSomebody]

I disagree, based on the fact that I first posted the colour theory and will never go back on my word.

[seeker28]

Well, ALMOST anything is possible. Most of it depends on your level of control, but some things just can't be done. For instance, you couldn't come up with a new color, no matter how hard you tried. Actually I did dream about a totally new color. The only problem was that when I woke up I couldn't remember what it looked like. Yeah, pretty much anything is possible. Your imagination is the limit.

[Oneironaut Zero]

I haven't had one yet, but from reading other posts... ANYTHING is possible in lucid dreaming.. Sorry for making threads one after the other, I'm just getting excited lol. Is it true? Can anything be achieved? Yeah. Pretty much anything. There are (few) exceptions, of course. I think the color thing is one (I don't really comprehend being able to perceive colors that are not mixtures of the colors that we already have. Not to say it isn't possible but...meh..). As far as most physical things, though (Flying, creating objects, walking through walls, telekinesis, pyrokinesis, bullet-dodging, superstrength, teleportation, changing scenery...pretty much anything) they are all possible in lucid dreams.

[wisp]

Dream images are make believe. They're not even real images, one could say. Often in movies depict dreams with a lot of detail. But if dreams could ever be translated into something visually animated, we could get disappointed. We think of dreams like a movie, but they are not. They're more like txt than mpg. The richness is in the way we perceive them (like when we're reading a book). In our dreams we walk through signs and symbols. We think we experience a detailed dream, when most likely we read a collection of signs saying "here is a tree", "dog", "street", "house, house, house, house, house", "very detailed picture" (and we are amazed of how detailed the picture is), or (why not?) "screen displaying a color never seen before". Dreams are very effectively encoded, so our ram is optimized. Most of it isn't image, or sound, but the experience of an image/sound. I once dreamed about a "very detailed" equation showing how 2 + 2 equals 5 (it's true). I was a little kid, and i was deceived. I woke up and tried hard to remember how it went with (as you might have guessed) no success. So those are not real limitation to the dream experience. The toughest real limitations i can think of are also relative. I've been able to read a short text, from time to time... In my dream i tend to think it's awesome, but when i wake up i realize that it's "awesomeness" was part of the dream (in other words, it sucked). But if we could wake up another parts of our brain, maybe we could do even that. Write a book in our dreams. In some dreams i've experienced a "whole lifetime". That also isn't "real". What the dream really gave me was "i owe you a lifetime, but i give you these few sensations, including some vague feeling of having experienced a lifetime". Well, i'll better cut it off now...