Thread: Some of the limits and unknown features of lucid dreaming...

When you are having a lucid dream, you get the feeling that you are god, sort of. You can fly, you can make things appear out of no where, go anywhere, even create new places and people and things, you can even make things spontaneously combust; aka, explode on the spot (aaahhh, good times). But there are some things that you just can't do.

For instance...

If you want to smell a food that you have never smelt before, or smell a flower, or eat a food, or touch lava or something crazy, but something that you have never done before, it won't work. It won't work because when you touch something in a dream that you have touched before, because you aren't really touching it, your brain has to associate the feeling of touching it in the real world with you touching it in your dream. So if you haven't touched something ever in your life, your brain won't know what to do and it will probably feel like something that has no friction and won't stick to anything.

Another thing that you shouldn't rely on in the real world is simulating a scenario. Say you want to ask someone out, but you don't know what they will say, so you have a lucid dream, make yourself appear at work or something, spawn that person next to you, and ask them, and they say yes, then that's probably just what you want them to say. It's impossible to know what someone will say unless everyone had no personality at all and everyone was insanely predictable.

Anyway, on to some of the cool, unknown features of lucid dreaming. Your brain is a very smart... thing. It does things sub-consciously that you don't even know about. These things can expand the limits of lucid dreaming enormously, if you know how to use them. For instance, sight is probably the only exception to the rule above. When you see someone for the first time, you might not have a vivid image of what they look like the next day, but your brain will have sub-consciously taken in what they looked like, and stored it somewhere. In a normal dream, your brain will use that image that it stored away as the one that you see, and it will be a perfect replica. So although you might not be able to think about someone during the day, you can see them perfectly in a dream.

Your brain is also smart enough to create entirely new objects, people and places. But remember, you aren't god, you can't do everything. But you can do a hell of a lot!!






I'm going to post some of the things that i have created and i want you to post some of the things that you have created as well so that other people can enjoy them. Please make sure that someone hasn't posted the same thing as you already.

For the most part I believe this is correct, but I think your mind can make up the feelings for some things, for example, getting stabbed by some maniac will make you feel the pain. Or is that just adapted from a pain you have felt elsewhere?

I think it's just adapted from pain that you have felt before. Say if you have tasted caulliflower but not broccoli, and you eat broccoli in an LD, then you will most likely taste caulliflower, it's not the same, but it is the most similiar. The thing about pain is that it's all the same, it's just in a different area and more or less severe. So being stabbed with a knife would probably just feel like a thin piece of metal being shoved into you and then lots and lots of pain. Your brain doesn't totally rely on experience.

From what i've experienced and heard, your brain always implys the laws of physics in your dreams, unless you are in an area that doesn't require it like space, or you are on earth and you are LDing and you make it zero gravity or something. A good thing to test in an LD would be getting an injection, i hate them so i might experiment with that tonight.

same here, nerve blocks hurt like hell so thats probably my most severe pain related memory for my mind to go on. But i'll try tasting something i havn't tasted before next time i have an LD

and physics are a pain in the --- LOL

Tell what happens when you eat something. I want to know. I think it might just taste like your favorite food or something that you have had so many times that you remember the taste all the time. I think my first project will be to get a cube and play around with it. Maybe i should try to make it into a perfect circle.

Created? A planet, new specie (Walms, thats from where I got my user) animals in general, crazy food that tasted... weird <.< Armors based on polimers, some were weak some were strong enough to shield you from a nuclear explosion at certain distance of the core, new "materials" to do swords, current materials and experiment with them. Thats some.

If you eat something in a dream that you have never tasted before, it will usually be 1 of 2 things

1: It will taste like you imagine it would taste

2: It will taste like something similar

I dont imagine why you would be teleported or stopped from interacting with something like that. The same thing goes with smells, It will either smell like you think it will smell, or smell like something similar.

Sight is a tricky one though, im not really sure what to say about that

Originally Posted by Risos

For instance, sight is probably the only exception to the rule above. When you see someone for the first time, you might not have a vivid image of what they look like the next day, but your brain will have sub-consciously taken in what they looked like, and stored it somewhere. In a normal dream, your brain will use that image that it stored away as the one that you see, and it will be a perfect replica. So although you might not be able to think about someone during the day, you can see them perfectly in a dream.

This is incredibly interesting, and honestly, I've wondered this before. For example, I've studied pictures of people before in hopes of creating more accurate representations of them in dreams. That got me thinking that you might subconsciously know exactly what someone looks like. Sometimes I can't remember the details, but then I thought that I must know what they look like because I always recognize them. Good to know!

If you want to smell a food that you have never smelt before, or smell a flower, or eat a food, or touch lava or something crazy, but something that you have never done before, it won't work.

I disagree with this as well, but it depends on what you mean by "it wont work." and if you expect it to fail, then it most likely will.

Hmm well I have gotten new videogames that I have never played before in dreams and my brain made the game how I would expect it to be.

I got stabbed and broke bones in my dreams. Never in real life. I have to say it was pretty convincing. Especially the excruciating pain part of the thing.

The body associates feelings it makes itself with things that happen you to in real life. it already knows what getting stabbed feels like, getting stabbed just triggers the feeling. but when it comes to food, you may not get the right taste, but only because your brain doesn't know what it tastes like, not because it doesn't know the taste.

If you've been chainsawed before or hit repeatedly with a knife or been shot, can you feel the same thing in your dream??