Thread: Using Lucidity to Practice Fighting

Someone said that you could use lucid dreams to hone your technique. I disagree with that. Maybe for a beginner that's the case, but anything above 5th kup should not be mental anymore, it's about muscle memory. Muscles don't get activated in your dreams.

When you practice any technique, a pathway is created and reinforced, and if you practice it enough it becomes so reinforced that it becomes second nature. LDing can create and reinforce pathways as commands are sent to the muscles like when you are awake. Muscles don't 'remember' anything, it's pathways being built up.

Lucid dreams can't make muscles or other parts of you physically stronger unlike actual physical training, but it can certainly be used to practice techniques, and there are plenty of stories in La Berge's book on the subject. You're going against a lot of evidence, anecdotal or otherwise with your claim you know.