Can you really do anything?

Hiya, I've known about lucid dreaming for years, in fact, as a kid, I remember having quite a few. Anyway, I haven't had one for a long time, and just recently I've started to try getting better sleep and some lucids down the road.

Now, I want to ask you guys who can LD, is anything really possible? Is taste a sense that you have when you LD? If I wanted to eat ice cream in an LD, would I feel the flavor and the coolness in my mouth?

Or say I wanted to walk through a wall, beat people up, punch my grandma in the face (just kidding).

Haha I think I know what most of the answers are gonna be:

"Yeah, depends though if you're really lucid or semi lucid"

"Well, yes but you might wake up from excitement (hopefully not of knocking your granny out).



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Lucid dreams are the same as dreams, they are as vivid as real life.

When you are in a dream you can use all 5 senses so convincingly that you will not be able to tell the difference between dream and reality merely by vividness.

And as for doing things, there is absolutely nothing you cannot do in a dream.
When you are lucid you become an omnipotent God, whether you choose to do anything or not is up to you.

Yeah, you can really do anything. You can do things that aren't possible in any sort of life (be in two places at once) and stuff like that. And all feelings and senses are real.

It's quite cool, huh?

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Originally Posted by Barns

And as for doing things, there is absolutely nothing you cannot do in a dream.

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This is very important. No-one can tell you what you can or cannot do, they are just telling you what THEY can or cannot do. Everyone is different, and the only limit is the imagination.

Nothing is impossible in dreams.

That's what's so good:boogie:

Does making 8000 foot high marshmallows count.

I had sausages in a dream once. It wasnt lucid but it tasted perfect.

Ive walked through walls alot aswell. But i seem to dream about flying every night.

Yeah you can .... i wish i could LD at will

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Originally Posted by Barns

Lucid dreams are the same as dreams, they are as vivid as real life.

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Funny thing is that one of my LD (one of the first actually, and very short, only second or two) was, honestly, more vivid than real life. That's why I believe there's something more about dreams then just "our imagination" or something...

Everything is possible, you just have to put your mind to it! And yes, you can eat ice cream as realistically as in real life; you can even make it a flavor that doesn't exist!

Best of luck in dreaming, and I hope you have a wonderful time with your senses.

Well, yes but you might wake up from excitement (hopefully not of knocking your granny out). ;p

I don't think you can get 360 vision though, its just to mind boggling.

Yeah, I believe you can do anything your mind can perceive.

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Originally Posted by pakistan

I don't think you can get 360 vision though, its just to mind boggling.

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Yes, you can

I once had a dream where I was Bear Grylls, and ate a bug, which tasted like a gooey potato chip. :P

Well you can't do ANYTHING; you can't create a new color and you can't die!...
as for the rest well yeah =P

I punched my sister in the face. :)

If you have the appropriate control, the only limitations are your imagination, the amount of REM sleep available, and to some extent, how varied your experiences are in the real world.

Since the brain uses information already obtained as a basis to construct things, the wider a range of experiences you have, the more realistic the feeling.

For instance, with flight, it's fairly easy for the brain to produce the sensation since most people are very familiar with the feelings it would create; acceleration, gravity, air resistance, wind, etc.

If no information is available to generate something, the brain will take elements from other sources, but this 'interpolation' is essentially a shot in the dark.

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Originally Posted by Tmer

you can't die!...

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I've died a few times in my dreams. I just always come back to life after that.

Yes, if you're in control then you really can do anything (as long as you don't get scared and wake up, or get stopped by dream characters.)

I was really excited when it happened, but it didn't wake me up.
And yes, usually you can do anything.
(even though I was powerless in my last few LD's)

so say i wanted to have sex, would it feel real? both the sex and the drug? can you engineer drugs in dreams? like made up drugs?

could i say mix 2 of my fav drugs into 1 super drug and do it in-dream?

would the sex in the dream make me feel like its real? would i wakeup with a mess down below? lol


Could i theoretically goto other planets? leave the earth? fly around the universe? would my dream self suffocate outside the atmosphere?

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Originally Posted by guerilla

would the sex in the dream make me feel like its real? would i wakeup with a mess down below? lol

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Usually, yes. :)

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Originally Posted by guerilla

Could i theoretically goto other planets? leave the earth? fly around the universe? would my dream self suffocate outside the atmosphere?

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You can leave the atmosphere, but its quite difficult to stay lucid with nothing around you. You may have more success teleporting to other planets than trying to fly there.

Imagination and the boundaries you set for yourself is the limit. Past those things you can do anything.

No, only things that you can imagine.

I haven't really gotten the tasting food as it should be in dreams (I always wake up to me trying to eat my pillow were a nice big drool sopt it lol), but form what I hear from a lot of people is if the dream is super vivid then the taste of things are as if you were actully eating them while awake. One of these days Iwill actully have food with out eating my pillow.

As for that what you can or can not do, I think that is mostly limited by your self. As in a dream anything is possable as long as you believe you can do it or 'know' you can do it.

Take Care,
Anna:jester:

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Originally Posted by Zera

Hiya, I've known about lucid dreaming for years, in fact, as a kid, I remember having quite a few. Anyway, I haven't had one for a long time, and just recently I've started to try getting better sleep and some lucids down the road.

Now, I want to ask you guys who can LD, is anything really possible? Is taste a sense that you have when you LD? If I wanted to eat ice cream in an LD, would I feel the flavor and the coolness in my mouth?

Or say I wanted to walk through a wall, beat people up, punch my grandma in the face (just kidding).

Haha I think I know what most of the answers are gonna be:

"Yeah, depends though if you're really lucid or semi lucid"

"Well, yes but you might wake up from excitement (hopefully not of knocking your granny out).



:banana:

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I've tasted things in regular dreams...like a chocolate bar, and it was delicious! So i'm sure it's possible in a lucid.

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Originally Posted by Photolysis

If you have the appropriate control, the only limitations are your imagination, the amount of REM sleep available, and to some extent, how varied your experiences are in the real world.

Since the brain uses information already obtained as a basis to construct things, the wider a range of experiences you have, the more realistic the feeling.

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If what your telling me is true, then how does my brain know what sex feels like when I haven't even had it before?

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If what your telling me is true, then how does my brain know what sex feels like when I haven't even had it before?

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But you don't know what it really feels like by definition!

The brain is very good at constructing things based on existing information. For instance, flight is something many people can create a vivid sensation for, despite having never experienced self-propelled flight. The reason is that they've been exposed to acceleration, gravity, wind, etc, and so it's quite easy to take these things and reuse them.

The brain is also quite good at interpolating information and creating sensations for new experiences in dreams. You might be able to create a vivid sensation of sex, and for all I know, it might be completely accurate compared to it in the real world, but the point is that it's basically an educated guess based on what you know and your expectations.

But we all know the sensation of body heat, and countless other things that would be involved in sex, so the fact that people can create the sensation is not surprising.

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Originally Posted by Photolysis

But you don't know what it really feels like by definition!

The brain is very good at constructing things based on existing information. For instance, flight is something many people can create a vivid sensation for, despite having never experienced self-propelled flight. The reason is that they've been exposed to acceleration, gravity, wind, etc, and so it's quite easy to take these things and reuse them.

The brain is also quite good at interpolating information and creating sensations for new experiences in dreams. You might be able to create a vivid sensation of sex, and for all I know, it might be completely accurate compared to it in the real world, but the point is that it's basically an educated guess based on what you know and your expectations.

But we all know the sensation of body heat, and countless other things that would be involved in sex, so the fact that people can create the sensation is not surprising.

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Wise words:)

has anyone really tasted something in a dream. i know its possible but i seem to always get a bland taste if i eat something. honestly who here has really ate something and enjoyed it?

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Originally Posted by Photolysis

But you don't know what it really feels like by definition!

The brain is very good at constructing things based on existing information. For instance, flight is something many people can create a vivid sensation for, despite having never experienced self-propelled flight. The reason is that they've been exposed to acceleration, gravity, wind, etc, and so it's quite easy to take these things and reuse them.

The brain is also quite good at interpolating information and creating sensations for new experiences in dreams. You might be able to create a vivid sensation of sex, and for all I know, it might be completely accurate compared to it in the real world, but the point is that it's basically an educated guess based on what you know and your expectations.

But we all know the sensation of body heat, and countless other things that would be involved in sex, so the fact that people can create the sensation is not surprising.

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Well said. Are you some sort of scientist which studies the brain?:D I bet half of you on here are cos you seem to know a lot.

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Originally Posted by aceboy

has anyone really tasted something in a dream. i know its possible but i seem to always get a bland taste if i eat something. honestly who here has really ate something and enjoyed it?

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LOADS AND LOADS of chocolate ice cream and the funny thing was; when I woke up I felt full. Really good method of having you fav food but yet still losing weight by not eating it in real life. It tasted fine, maybe cos I believed it would.

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Well said. Are you some sort of scientist which studies the brain?

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Haha, thanks.

I understand a bit about how the brain works at the most basic level; how signals are conducted along nerve fibres for instance, but I definitely don't study it.

It is clear though that the brain works by modeling things and updating the model based on new experiences. It's actually quite awe-inspiring when you realise that everything you see in the real world is simply a model constructed by the brain, and how powerful it is in this regard.

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Originally Posted by aceboy

has anyone really tasted something in a dream. i know its possible but i seem to always get a bland taste if i eat something. honestly who here has really ate something and enjoyed it?

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The taste thing doesn't quite work for me either. Also smoking; I had a lucid cigarette once and it felt I was like inhaling fine, cool powder.

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Originally Posted by pakistan

I don't think you can get 360 vision though, its just to mind boggling.

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I've had 360 vision. It is possible, and yes, it is pretty mind-boggling.

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Originally Posted by aceboy

has anyone really tasted something in a dream. i know its possible but i seem to always get a bland taste if i eat something. honestly who here has really ate something and enjoyed it?

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Yea, I've eaten cookies and other things in non-lucids. I've remembered what they taste like only a few times, but they really do taste real. I only remember eating once in a lucid and it was still real tasting. I think it tastes how you expect it to taste. You may as well expect that it will taste real, right?

my quick answer to this question is no - because you are limited by your own consciousness/imagination

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can you manifest as 50 people, and see out of each of yourselves in first person? probably not, more than likely 49 of yourselves will be third person perspective

is anything possible in a lucid dream? yes, but only if you can break those limitations

All that is possible is all that you can imagine. I notice posts on this thread about having experiences in dreams that you havent had in waking life... yes its correct that our brain models and maps out our reality from our experiences it and stores it... it uses this information to construct dreams and can be fairly accurate in synthesizing new experiences from existing information. Obviously the more information you have on the subject, the more accurate the experience will be. It is possible to experience vividly a full range of senses. Sometimes in dreams (non-lucids) I eat things that I would never eat in waking life (like chocolate, I dont eat it on principle) and it tastes very real.