Thread: How real does a lucid dream feel?

I haven't got one myself yet (I'm going to use some techniques tonight..).
But I'd like to know how does it feel to have a lucid dream?
Does it feel very real or what?

Also do you really have the feeling of being yourself in such a dream?
Like I'm not always myself in a normal dream, and I may do weird stuff..
(A.K.A. one of my worst nightmates ; breaking out of a mental care and riding from a cliff with one of the mental care vans...)
Do you feel in controll of yourself?
I can't imagine myself being aware of a dream..
It's such a weird idea!

It varies, but my dreams can super real. Like exactly like real life real. In my lucids, I often just look around, exploring how wonderfully real things are.

Like jonathan said, it varies. Some don't seem very vivid or real at all, others can seem even hyper-real where your senses seem to have sharpened, and colors are more vibrant. That's often what WILDs are like for me.

They don't feel like dreams, believe me, it feels exactly like you're in real life but can do anything.

It's not always the same. Sometimes it looks and feels just like real life, and sometimes the surfaces look like textures from a game from 1999. Still, what you see is not everything. The whole feeling of being aware that it is a dream, surfaces feeling like they should (wood feeling like wood, metal feeling cold), being able to feel the wind through your hair or feel the temperature rising when the sun appears, it's great! I once moved some clouds aside with my hands to reveal the sun and it made everything brighter and it felt warm.

It's awesome when everything looks and feels realistic.

It depends. Some dreams I'll realize I'm dreaming but still feel like there are certain aspects I can't control. Some dreams feel more realistic. I almost always end up flying at some point during every lucid dream...this doesn't generally happen in real life.

Originally Posted by Deaf Cow

I haven't got one myself yet (I'm going to use some techniques tonight..).
But I'd like to know how does it feel to have a lucid dream?
Does it feel very real or what?

Also do you really have the feeling of being yourself in such a dream?
Like I'm not always myself in a normal dream, and I may do weird stuff..
(A.K.A. one of my worst nightmates ; breaking out of a mental care and riding from a cliff with one of the mental care vans...)
Do you feel in controll of yourself?
I can't imagine myself being aware of a dream..
It's such a weird idea!

Sometimes while your flying high above the city your amazed at how your mind can create every single building, tree, person, etc that you fly over.
You definitely cant do this in real life so I'd say it's like getting to be a baby again, and experiencing a new world all over again.

Oh, I forgot to answer your question about being other people . . .

Sometimes I am other people in my lucids just like I am in my normal dreams. And I know that I'm not really that person but will act as if I am and do things that I wouldn't normally do . . . But if I really didn't want to do something I wouldn't do it.