LD Sports

I heard a lot about how people use LDs to practice a sport... but I never tried. So I was wondering... is it more effective to practice in an LD or in real life? Also, what's it like playing a sport in an LD?

Definitely in waking life, for the reason that you actually get the physical work out in waking life. While dreaming you can work out strategies and plays perhaps, but you need to remember its all based in your mind.

Not to mention you may inadvertently "cheat" and do some super impossible throw/kick/goal of other sort completely by accident.

But it still has its uses, but I think actual sports play would be more effective in waking life

In LD your abilities can be better than IRL so it could be misleading.

Yes, but muscle memory, which is very important in many if not all sports, has been basically proven by Laberge himself to be possible to develope in an LD. Practicing in a LD can develop muscle memory, but sometimes (according to a friend who is proficient at LDing) it doesn't carry over into RL.

I have been wondering if anyone has tried to create an extremely realistic dream environment that is exactly the same as RL. If this is (which it probably is) possible, and you have good enough dream recall to make it carry over into RL than I can see no reason why you couldn't practice sports or anything else in LDs and benefit in RL (except for the physical aspect of it).

I've trained Taekwondo forms in my lucid dreams before, I still do now and then. I did this quite often when I was new at it, and I was complimented over my skills considering how new I was. I do think it might have been a little because of all that lucid dreaming practicing.

Well, scientists are trying to get more into LDing because of this. It can be great to additionally practice when sleeping, even though the conditions might not be totally perfect, it's better than nothing.

But I've never tried it.