Thread: How real are your dreams?

I'd say about 79% at maximum, it can go from 40% to 60% most of the time though, fuse it all together and: I can say, about 52% most of the time?

In an unposted lucid dream, I became lucid with very low lucidity. I didn't even know where I was going, or what I was doing. After losing lucidity, I meander until I appear in my backyard. Again, I realize I'm dreaming, but this time deeper. I feel the soft coolness of my ankles in the snow, and a strange warm breeze, despite the wintry setting. I gazed at the night sky, which was incredibly crisp, clear and blue, as if untainted by any manmade chemical. A vibrant teal band of horizon faded into a deep blue that held bright stars and a beautiful last quarter moon in the very center. As I noticed the oddly shaped icicles on the trees, the last detail, the sun flung into the sky, bringing clouds and a sunrise of neon oranges, pinks, and greens not possible on this earth...

Exhilarating. =]

Originally Posted by Abra

In an unposted lucid dream, I became lucid with very low lucidity. I didn't even know where I was going, or what I was doing. After losing lucidity, I meaner until I appear in my backyard. Again, I realize I'm dreaming, but this time deeper. I feel the soft coolness of my ankles in the snow, and a strange warm breeze, despite the wintry setting. I gazed at the night sky, which was incredibly crisp, clear and blue, as if untainted by any manmade chemical. A vibrant teal band of horizon faded into a deep blue, which bright stars and a beautiful last quarter moon in the very center. As I noticed the oddly shaped icicles on the trees, the last detail, the sun flung into the sky, bringing clouds and a sunrise of neon oranges, pinks, and greens not possible on this earth...

Exhilarating. =]

You're good, very good!

I've had a WILD where, visually, it was 110% more clearer than reality. It's difficult to describe, but imagine if you were born with impaired vision, and then suddenly you were equipped with 'normal' vision. You'd be overwhelmed. It was just like this.

However, consider this analogy with the establishment of 'normal' vision to begin with a further increase in perception. The surroundings were more vibrant, sharp and clear than what I usually perceive in reality.

Originally Posted by Quark

I've had a WILD where, visually, it was 110% more clearer than reality. It's difficult to describe, but imagine if you were born with impaired vision, and then suddenly you were equipped with 'normal' vision. You'd be overwhelmed. It was just like this.

However, consider this analogy with the establishment of 'normal' vision to begin with. The surroundings were more vibrant, sharp and clear than what I usually perceive in reality.

I can imagine how that must of been, like life itself had better graphics.

Originally Posted by Abra

In an unposted lucid dream, I became lucid with very low lucidity. I didn't even know where I was going, or what I was doing. After losing lucidity, I meaner until I appear in my backyard. Again, I realize I'm dreaming, but this time deeper. I feel the soft coolness of my ankles in the snow, and a strange warm breeze, despite the wintry setting. I gazed at the night sky, which was incredibly crisp, clear and blue, as if untainted by any manmade chemical. A vibrant teal band of horizon faded into a deep blue, which bright stars and a beautiful last quarter moon in the very center. As I noticed the oddly shaped icicles on the trees, the last detail, the sun flung into the sky, bringing clouds and a sunrise of neon oranges, pinks, and greens not possible on this earth...

Exhilarating. =]

awesome. good writing so that we can experience it a little too. after all, we fairly have to dream up what you wrote in order to understand. dreams like this is one of the main reasons i visit this forum.

as for my most vivid, it was the first few times i lucid dreamed. first i used a card with the words "are you dreaming?" written on the back. my first lucid started when i saw those words i'd seen so many times doing reality checks. but this time they moved. they changed when my eyes looked away and returned. i looked up, noticed i was standing in the summer heat, seeing myself in the reflection of my friends window. i was just about to knock on his front door. i could smell the wood siding on his house, and feel the heat radiating off of it. my heart seemed to make one huge beat that happened at the same time i realised that i was standing in a world that wasn't real. everything went black and i woke up breathing, shaking, a little scared and very thrilled.

there have been some dreams that sneak up after very dull hazy ones in which i'm trying really hard to clear them up! trudging in sludge and slow motion, annoyed at the resistance. dreams that are 100% real, it is almost frightening. i'm sure many people here have experienced that. those ones are the hardest for me to continue in because of how startled i get when i realize it's imaginary. all senses suddenly active, living breathing feeling a second reality.

Normally around 80-90%. Very real! Of course I get some foggy dreams sometimes though. I have

only had 1 LD but mine was like 100% only it was all int technicolor and all sences were

exaggerated and it was almost more real then real. So, I give it like 120%. This might be due to

that I often stop to notice sences throughout the day. Its like haveing a lucid non-dream. When

you stop just going through the day in a trance and stop to see the world around you it all looks so

much more real. You would be surprised, expecially in really good lighting.

The first intentional lucid I had was in a gray parlor...

At first, I was asleep and in a non-lucid state. Then I saw a desk like one in real life, except it was gray-blue in color, with gold trim. I happened to look down at my hands and noticed that I had an extra finger. The realization that i was dreaming cause me to awaken, though I did not move from my sleeping position.

I knew that if I held still long enough, I would go back to sleep... I started to drift, and when I thought I was gone, I imagined opening my eyes, except I opened my real eyes instead of my dream eyes. It didn't matter, though; seemingly as soon as I closed them again, I was drifting down...

My eyes opened and I found myself beside that desk again. I looked all around me and found myself in the parlor of an old house. The walls were gray, a black-and-gray floral wallpaper covering them. I knew I was dreaming from the start, but it occurred to me only then that this place was not real, but inside my mind. I expected the place to waver with the realization, but it stayed solid; it seemed so strange, so extraordinary that I could still be in bed at that moment and be experiencing this place so clearly, with its ornate doorways and windows and velvet wingback chairs... I could even see the hallway and the staircase beyond the main doorway. I could scarcely believe it was all in my mind.

Other times, I have had dreams that I actually recalled as real life. Once, when I was in high school, I cancelled all of my plans one day so that I could finish a project I thought my teacher had said was due the next day. I brought it into class only to have my teacher tell me that it was due the next week. It was then that I remembered the events book-ending the memory, all of them dream images. I had dreamed that the due date had been moved and recalled the dream as a real-life memory.

On average, though, most of my dreams are only about 50% realistic when it comes to clarity and stimulations of the senses.

Theskit - it's true. everything around us really is beautiful but it goes unnoticed.

Semper Erato - thanks for sharing. good imagery in your writing too. came across to me as a sort of stillness, especially when you talked about the winged chairs. very quiet and still.

Originally Posted by Abra

In an unposted lucid dream, I became lucid with very low lucidity. I didn't even know where I was going, or what I was doing. After losing lucidity, I meander until I appear in my backyard. Again, I realize I'm dreaming, but this time deeper. I feel the soft coolness of my ankles in the snow, and a strange warm breeze, despite the wintry setting. I gazed at the night sky, which was incredibly crisp, clear and blue, as if untainted by any manmade chemical. A vibrant teal band of horizon faded into a deep blue that held bright stars and a beautiful last quarter moon in the very center. As I noticed the oddly shaped icicles on the trees, the last detail, the sun flung into the sky, bringing clouds and a sunrise of neon oranges, pinks, and greens not possible on this earth...

Exhilarating. =]

I just took the time to read that more slowly. You definitely have the skills of a writer; the imagery became so vivid in my mind that I literally lost my breath for a moment.

Always too realistic for me. I'd say about.... 85%.

While the content of my dreams is far from realistic (each dream seems to get more random,) when I became lucid and tested my environment, it showed no physical flaws and looked exactly like real life. Also, several time upon becoming lucid, I had to continuously reality check to make sure everything was a dream, because it seemed so realistic that I didn't want to mistake it for a dream, and end up making a fool of myself/get imprisoned.

the most realistic one was one that started out crappy and everything was burry like you were not wearing contacts or glasses. I sat down to this table full of food and I was trying to get over the shock that i was lucid so for that time i was going with the flow of the dream when I sat down I remember clairity( the dreamguide here at DV's) said that to increase clarity you should say it verbally so I shouted out clarity! and everything started to clear soon I could see the fruit on the table with 20-20 vision and I shouted happily yes! sadly the dream ended after that to excitment.

cheers for the advice!

My dreams usually feel real, as in highly vivid, but lots of crazy stuff goes on. But they could probably range from 10% real (crazy stuff going on), to 100% real (FA).

Two dreams I've had lately, one lucid and one not.

The non-lucid one first, which I posted about.

I met John Myung of Dream Theater, and we were discussing bass technique and whatnot (I'm a bassist myself). Eventually, he hands me his Tung bass, a 6-string bass guitar which few hands will ever grace, as but 32 exist in the world. I moved my hands up and down the neck, feeling the wood brush against my thumb. Every note I played sounded flawless, as if it were what could only be perfection for a bassist. I felt the coils of the strings rubbing against my fingers as I noted with my left hand and plucked with my right. It was 100% believable and realistic to me at the time. So real that when I awoke, I actually thought that I had just jammed with John Myung, and it took me a good 30 seconds to figure out that it was only a dream.

Another dream, this one lucid, well more of a lucid dream within a non-lucid dream (fell asleep in a dream then realized that I was dreaming).

Once I realized that I was dreaming, I looked to the sky and effortlessly launched myself to the rainy night sky (some people say they have trouble flying, this was my first attempt, and I had no problem with it, likely because I *knew* that I could do it). I flew around for a bit, I could feel the wind in my hair and the rain against my face. I watched the buildings whizzing by, much like a scene from the Matrix. I tried flying extremely fast (to use a Matrix refrence again, it was not unlike how Neo flew when trying to save Trinity), but the dream began to fade. My surroundings began fading to white emptiness, so I slowed down. I flew about a little while longer, and finally closed my eyes and did a backflip. I knew I was too low and was about to hit the ground, but it didn't scare me because I knew I was dreaming. Right as I hit the ground, I woke.

Sight 20%
Touch 0%
Smell 0%
Hear 20%
Taste 0%

Guess that makes my dreams 40% real.

But if I had to rate how real it felt, I would say up around the 85-100's... It always feels so damn real, until you think "Hmm, did I actually feel the heat of the fire, smell the burnt stuff, taste the whatever?" Otherwise it always feels really real.

Originally Posted by Maeni

Sight 20%
Touch 0%
Smell 0%
Hear 20%
Taste 0%

Guess that makes my dreams 40% real.

But if I had to rate how real it felt, I would say up around the 85-100's... It always feels so damn real, until you think "Hmm, did I actually feel the heat of the fire, smell the burnt stuff, taste the whatever?" Otherwise it always feels really real.

thats EXACTLY y i posted this- (btw- 0+0+20+20+0= 8%, thats how real it is, by your system you could reach 500%..) alot of times in the past alot feelings wend by me and only later i got- like you said- hey i didnt get burn from the fire.. (note that in normal dreams its 100% real most of the time for me) but once i got that and started paying attention to it- i started feeling more and more in the LD..

There are some that felt like they were far beyond real.
It's hard to explain and I'm guessing that only others who've experienced the hyper real lucid dreams can appreciate what I'm talking about.

Mine are pretty consistently about 95%. The only thing that keeps them from being 100% realistic is that I don't really experience pain in my dreams. Instead I experience pain as merely a moderately uncomfortable sensation. Other than that, it may as well be waking life as far as I'm concerned at the time. Additionally, I've never dreamed in black and white or in third person (something I can hardly comprehend).

Frankly I'm a little surprised that people are giving such low ratings.

mfratt, was John Myung more talkative in your dream than he is in real life?? lol. Thats actually one of my goals for a Lucid is to hangout and jam with Myung and see if I can learn any bass tips.

back on topic. Most of my dreams seem just as real as real life from what I can remember. Some dreams (non lucid) I woke up from and for a few minutes i'm still thinking about it like "oh i'm going to do this today" then I remember, "oh shtt it was just a dream".

Originally Posted by TopographicOceans

mfratt, was John Myung more talkative in your dream than he is in real life?? lol. Thats actually one of my goals for a Lucid is to hangout and jam with Myung and see if I can learn any bass tips.

back on topic. Most of my dreams seem just as real as real life from what I can remember. Some dreams (non lucid) I woke up from and for a few minutes i'm still thinking about it like "oh i'm going to do this today" then I remember, "oh shtt it was just a dream".

Yeah I was hoping to dance with Rick Ashley last night, didn't happen though.

Originally Posted by psiiiijay

thats EXACTLY y i posted this- (btw- 0+0+20+20+0= 8%, thats how real it is, by your system you could reach 500%..) alot of times in the past alot feelings wend by me and only later i got- like you said- hey i didnt get burn from the fire.. (note that in normal dreams its 100% real most of the time for me) but once i got that and started paying attention to it- i started feeling more and more in the LD..

20 + 20 + 20 + 20 + 20 = 100
0 + 20 + 0 + 0 + 20 = 40
That's how I meant it, anyways :p

If I had full sight, taste, smell, hearing, feel, then I'd have 100%
Dunno how I should have shown it otherwise.

Originally Posted by DuB

Mine are pretty consistently about 95%. The only thing that keeps them from being 100% realistic is that I don't really experience pain in my dreams. Instead I experience pain as merely a moderately uncomfortable sensation. Other than that, it may as well be waking life as far as I'm concerned at the time. Additionally, I've never dreamed in black and white or in third person (something I can hardly comprehend).

Frankly I'm a little surprised that people are giving such low ratings.

i was actually wanting to start a thread about "how much pain and extremes (heat, cold, falling and breaking somthing) can you feel.." this is what turns most of my dreams to drop form 100%, vision, sound and tast are 100% and better than that most of the time.. but the pain.. ohh the pain..

Last night, I was riding with someone in a red mercedes and I looked at a paper. I read it, and I suddenly became slightly lucid, I also knew it wasn't gonna last. I took the chance to look and see how vivid things were, and honestly, everything looked excactly like in real life...