Thread: How real are LDs?

Yea i know i do this too much but here's another matrix quote. This movie answers so many questions about lucid dreaming.


What is real?
If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain

In a dream, your brain comes up with it's own electrical signals. These are often identical to those experienced in real life. This means that dreams have the potential to feel exactly, and i mean exactly like reality.

Originally Posted by Dizko

In a dream, your brain comes up with it's own electrical signals. These are often identical to those experienced in real life. This means that dreams have the potential to feel exactly, and i mean exactly like reality.

Perhaps even more real than 'reality' due to the elimination of the need for those signals to be sent along neural pathways. Also, any imperfections in your neural network would not affect how you experience your senses. It's all in your brain, which is what makes you you.

Rather, not how real it is, but how much consciousness is experienced?

I think this question needs to be answered carefully. There are different levels of awareness and lucidity in LDing, and so to answer this you have to take into account what sort of LD we are talking about. I'm going to answer for my fully lucid dreams, as opposed to the lesser lucids.

In higher lucids everything is 100% vivid, if I concentrate on it. Things don't exist if you aren't paying attention to them, so my "peripheral sensations" are usually much hazier than in real life. Things I AM paying attention to are amazingly vivid. Sort of like looking at a good HDRI photo as opposed to a regular photo (look up HDR photos, I am partly in love with them because they remind me so much of my dreams: you can see all details, nothing is over or underexposed http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1374/...c1ea1a2165.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Dupont-HDR.jpg http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs32/i/20..._by_funk86.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._night_HDR.jpg They have to be done properly or they look fake and like shit, though). Taste can vary.

My consciousness is just as real as in waking life, the only problems I ever have are sometimes with remembering small details. I am very much aware and conscious, but I often have trouble remembering lucid dream goals. Ironic, huh? It's like when you find yourself in the grocery store, and you know you made a list of groceries, and you know it's on the kitchen counter by the microwave, and you know the first thing was "asparagus" and the last was "eggs", but you just can't remember what was in between those two.

There is something about remembering dreams that is just difficult to do. When I first wake up they usually try to fade on me, but if I take a moment to recall them they suddenly come back, and I will never forget any of my good lucids. They are some of the best, most vivid, and important memories of my life.

As always, Shift runs in with the perfect words.

It does vary from person to person though, some people have trouble seeing right unless they induce a WILD, while others seem to be able to see them as though they are waking life. Everyone is different. All in all, I do remember myself being there just as normal life, albeit it's a little foggy sometimes.

Originally Posted by Scarhand

As always, Shift runs in with the perfect words.

I wasn't aware I had that reputation haha

Those pics are very interesting shift, they really are the closest things I've seen to replicating what dreams look like.