Thread: Can you really do anything?

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?

Originally Posted by Barns

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

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

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

Originally Posted by Barns

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

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.

Originally Posted by pakistan

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

Yes, you can

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

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.

Originally Posted by Tmer

you can't die!...

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?

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

Usually, yes.

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?

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