Thread: Breathing underwater in a LD..Whats it like for you?

Whenever I go underwater in a dream, I don't feel any pressure. I just see the water around me.

normal

It's just like breathing in air. Haven't tried going from air to water in the same breath though...

Feels like normal breathing, because it is.
For the same reason the nose hold reality check works.
No matter what you do, your still breathing in your bed.

Actually to me it was different, I could feel the water gonig up the nose but it would do the same as the air; and yet I didn't realize i was dreaming...

I feel water flood into my lungs. It is like drowning, but I never need to take a breath.

Its like being a fish of course, water enters, air gets divided from it, then bubbles go out, so funny to play with your breath when underwater <.<

Hey Kelly08, I've only done it once but it was pretty cool. I was in a lucid dream and I saw a beautiful pool of crystal clear water so I got into it and went under the water and breathed. My breathing felt normal but the whole experience was wonderful because I could feel the soft, swirling water all around me and yet there I was breathing! The water felt so nice and it was the perfect temperature. Come to think of it, I must add 'swim with dolphins' to my dream goal list...

From my personal experience, I wait in the water until I am forced to breathe at which point it feels like I am enhaling water, however the property of water is almost identical to air. In other words to put it simply it's like breathing liquid air?

From my personal experience, I wait in the water until I am forced to breathe at which point it feels like I am enhaling water, however the property of water is almost identical to air. In other words to put it simply it's like breathing liquid air?

Thats right on it

I had a semi-lucid dream that started out underwater. I saw the water all around me, but didn't feel any of it on my skin, nor did I feel any water entering my nose when I was breathing. I imagine if I had been fully lucid, then moved into a body of water, things would have been different.

It feels warmer than air, to me.

If I am non-lucid, my breathing in real life may become restricted or altered (I might attempt to breathe out underwater, and breathe in when I swim up for air, deepening my breathing).

for me its weird, you know when you dive into water and you immediately breath out and you feel an air bubble? well i get that anyway, it felt like that, exept i was breathing.

I've only breathed underwater once, in a normal dream. It was pretty funny, because I convinced myself it was fine, as long as you breathed slowly. I think my breathing even sped up, and it didn't occur to me I was dreaming.

Originally Posted by Brandon Heat

From my personal experience, I wait in the water until I am forced to breathe at which point it feels like I am enhaling water, however the property of water is almost identical to air. In other words to put it simply it's like breathing liquid air?

That's what it's like for me, except sometimes I don't have to hold my breath.

I had many dreams of breathing underwater, to me it was more dificult to breath, and struggled a little.
but that because I was terible afraid of water in my dreams, It was too difficult to control

Breathing in dreams is tied to your real breathing, so usually it should be the same as breathing normally. This is why the nose-plug RC is so effective.

One time I was in a normal dream and swimming in a pool and I was under water and realized i could breath and that's how I became lucid ...such a cool experience

Wow... This thread has been necro-posted twice in it's history. That's impressive!

Tis' a sad, sad thing, sire. The necromancer's forces grow stronger by the day.

Anyway, I was swimming underwater once, and I was just breathing like normal, but with my mouth closed. Then a mermaid showed up, then exploded. It was a strange, strange dream.

i have never tried breathing underwater. In the real world i can't swim well so if i find myself in water i will just fly to get awy from the watrer. I had one dream where i could actually swim perfectly and for me this was better than flying

I's really fun splashing into the water in a dream. I could feel the water going through me then going out. It was really cool.

The water almost always has a slight chill to it for me. As for the breathing, it's a little more dificult that breathing air, very similar to breathing through a fine fabric or something.

I've never had a problem with breathing underwater, and it shouldn't be a problem for anyone, for the reasons Stirred noted above. But here's something to consider should you ever take the plunge:

One of the major symbols of the unconscious is water. Since ancient times (and straight through to modern archetypical dream interpretation), bodies of water in your dreams have been seen to represent the underworld, or in modern terms your unconscious. Perhaps when you next find yourself breathing underwater, you might hold still for a moment and think about where you are, and what secrets might be floating in the darkness around you.

...just a thought.