Thread: How lucid is to be lucid in a dream?

Originally Posted by fenix777

I was just reading about how would people feel when LD'ing, and it got me thinking about how lucid people can get In a Dream and how concious about the dream can we be when Awake. I know recall of a dream is important but how Real a dream can get while lucid that we can feel we were "In the dream" and in control of the dream.

In comparison with Our Waking Life, how real can we experience our LD's that we can say we are living in two diferent realities? I hope i explain my point here because i would love to hear from the experienced ones.

I think that lucid dreams can parallel reality in realism. However with regard to "two diferent realities", they cannot. There is simply no continuity or consistency in dreams. Its like trying to live a noraml life while you your memory is wiped every morning. Every lucid dream is like a clean slate.

Thought in lucid dreams varies. In some LDs, mugginess of dreams cannot be helped--it's just how your brain is functioning. In others, the clarity in dreams is perfect. In some LDs, the memory is functioning as well. These are the best dreams, because they enable you to follow through with whatever goal you set. I've had dreams with perfect realism, where thought and setting are highly stable and true to life. These dreams are the rarest, but the best.

Originally Posted by psychology student

I think that lucid dreams can parallel reality in realism. However with regard to "two diferent realities", they cannot. There is simply no continuity or consistency in dreams. Its like trying to live a noraml life while you your memory is wiped every morning. Every lucid dream is like a clean slate.

Have you tried to get consistency? That has been my main goal since starting the practice of lucid dreaming. To help, I go on dream adventures, which are many dreams long. While consistency isn't perfect, it's suitable. If you believe that the dream characters will reappear, they will. Eventually you'll get to a point where setting will settle into common themes (forest is my strongest location in dreams, The Base is also easy for me to find). It's taking less and less effort for me to summon familiar DCs, and one of them has been coming to me on her own.

Consistency is like any other type of dream control. It takes practice, will, and belief. With enough time, the consistency between lucid dreams will become quite usable.