Thread: Why don't light's work in dreams very well?

I think it's because light is like a thing that you need to summon. So if you click a swich it's hard for it to turn right on. You need to "summon" it like persons in dreams. Just look for it and it will appear eventually.

I think I see what you mean, how if you flick a switch it is not you doing it.

"Hmmn. I think that a large factor could be that your mind doesn't like it when the light levels change in dreams. I think it is the light that is the problem and not the switch."

"Whenever I want to change the lighting I have to use magic."




Why wouldn't your mind like changing light levels? It changes everything else.








"I think it's because light is like a thing that you need to summon. So if you click a swich it's hard for it to turn right on. You need to "summon" it like persons in dreams. Just look for it and it will appear eventually."




You don't always need to summon people though, just go somewhere, they're usually there, and they're almost always there in non lucid dreams. That and light should be like places in a dream. Wherever you are in a dream, you're somewhere, and it's solid mainly. Lights should be the same way.

Why wouldn't your mind like changing light levels? It changes everything else.

You don't always need to summon people though, just go somewhere, they're usually there, and they're almost always there in non lucid dreams. That and light should be like places in a dream. Wherever you are in a dream, you're somewhere, and it's solid mainly. Lights should be the same way.

Speaking from myself (and others') experiences light levels are a little harder to change than anything else.

Random speculation.

Perhaps it is due to how light alters the appearance of every object that it touches. For instance, your mind has rendered your bedroom with every item in it; however, the lighting is somewhat low. Now, if you were to increase the light intensity then, technically, everything in your environment would have to be re-rendered. This in itself is quite a formidable task for your mind to simply 'do', without 'you' fully taking into account the alteration of every object in the vicinity. To ignore this and continue to increase light intensity would, essentially, be bending a fundamental? law (which, I have heard, can be done with practice).

I have span and the light has increased, and that's most likely because during the spin my vision is of nothing. Thus, it gives my mind the opportunity to render a more light intensive surrounding.

Wow, well done Quark! I think you've nailed it there.

In my most recent dream (and first lucid!) the lights went out. It was realistically dark. I hurried to turn on the light (because I thought someone turned the lights off) and nothing happened. That's when I realized I was dreaming and woke up.

Quark, that's funny. Treating a brain like a computer .

Originally Posted by Venomblood

Quark, that's funny. Treating a brain like a computer .

Ahh, that's what happens when you study too much cognitive psychology hehe.

Originally Posted by Quark

Random speculation.

Perhaps it is due to how light alters the appearance of every object that it touches. For instance, your mind has rendered your bedroom with every item in it; however, the lighting is somewhat low. Now, if you were to increase the light intensity then, technically, everything in your environment would have to be re-rendered. This in itself is quite a formidable task for your mind to simply 'do', without 'you' fully taking into account the alteration of every object in the vicinity. To ignore this and continue to increase light intensity would, essentially, be bending a fundamental? law (which, I have heard, can be done with practice).

I have span and the light has increased, and that's most likely because during the spin my vision is of nothing. Thus, it gives my mind the opportunity to render a more light intensive surrounding.

That makes sense, I didn't think about it like that.

Originally Posted by Barns

Speaking from myself (and others') experiences light levels are a little harder to change than anything else.

I believed that it was a test to check if you are lucid dreaming or not, so today I woke up learning that its not. I tried to change the lights and they did. So I thought that wasn't a dream after all.