Thread: How real are LDs?

Sometimes I have really really vivid dreams and when I wake up i say 'wow that was a really vivid dream' but I don't actually remember BEING there and I dont remember actually feeling anything when it happened (even if phsyical stimulation was occuring)

when you have a lucid dream, are you as conscious as you are right now?

Yes... It's an amazing feeling. But don't get too excited because it can wake you up!

And after your dream? do you remember it like last days morning shower? ^^

Usually better. Lucid dreams are generally more interesting than routine showers, so they tend to stick with you.

Originally Posted by archdreamer

Usually better. Lucid dreams are generally more interesting than routine showers, so they tend to stick with you.

-.- XDDD i just ment if you remember it like your real life?

Yes, if your recall is sufficiently developed.

i just ment if you remember it like your real life?

I've been wondering about that myself, how people remember their lucids.
I find that my memory of lucids is very superficial compared to non-luncids. I can remember the dream but not any of its sensations, and the memory fades quite a lot in a matter of hours. Non-lucids on the other hand seem to retain many of their elements for years.
I wonder if it's a matter of experience...

Originally Posted by Timothy Paradox

Yes... It's an amazing feeling. But don't get too excited because it can wake you up!

I would say don't even think about waking up at all. Usually sometime during the excitement, you realize that your time is limited, and then perhaps you consider that if you woke up, the amazing world around you, and its limitless possibilities would be gone. I propose that it is this process that leads to waking up.

In the land of dreams, everything is affected by what you think about. The extent to which it is effected is based on how much you believe what you're thinking. You can actually wake yourself up on purpose if you're having a nightmare by thinking about waking up. So my opinion is that you can be as excited as you want to be, as long as you keep the thinking about waking up to a minimum, as it is not the excitement itself that causes you to wake up, but the line of thinking that usually accompanies it. My reasoning for allowing excitement is that I have had many dreams where I was very excited, but did not wake up.

So when you first realize you're in a dream, try to think about what you want to do and start doing whatever that is. If you just stand there thinking "wow, I'm dreaming, this is awesome!" for too long, you are a lot more at risk of waking up. I can attest to this from personal experience

Originally Posted by Jurence

Sometimes I have really really vivid dreams and when I wake up i say 'wow that was a really vivid dream' but I don't actually remember BEING there and I dont remember actually feeling anything when it happened (even if phsyical stimulation was occuring)

when you have a lucid dream, are you as conscious as you are right now?

It depends on how lucid you are. I've had my first lucid dream with 100% conciousness and the dream environment was hyperreal....it was realer and clearer than real.

IMJ

Yes when i was lucid about 2 or three weeks ago i still remember it and it was so real. Like in real life.