Thread: Bringing objects back from dreams

I have two questions about LDs that I'm really just curious if it occurs with anyone else. First of all, when I have lucid dreams, I often find myself deciding to fly... but I can actually "feel" that it takes effort. It takes a lot of focus and almost feels like it strains my mind. Does anyone else notice this tension in controlling your dreams??

Also, this applies to both LDs and regular dreams. I constantly find myself trying to bring something back from the dream world to real life. It's been a variety of things... from pictures to leaves to specific thoughts... for some reason I always seem to think I should be able to do this. It kind of feels like I'm trying to break through some mental barrier.

Anyone have any thoughts or maybe can relate??

In fourth grade, I drempt I could fly with the power of a white marble. I woke up with the marble in hand, and began floating above my bed. How disappointed I was when I truly awoke! I didn't despair for long, because I knew I had brought a treasure with me after all--memory. I wrote the dream down, expanding upon it for twenty pages.

It shouldn't take effort to fly. That is a mental barrier.

When I was learning to fly in dreams it took so much effort! As the years have passed I've gotten much better at it, and now flying is often effortless, but sometimes I still have to fight to fly.

Thinking you can bring something back from a dreams is classic! Even when I am lucid I still sometimes think I might be able to do this! Just another illogical dream belief.

I remember reading something somewhere ( i completely forget...) that people and scholars have ben trying to bring things back from the dream world for a long time. Anyway, I often find myself grabbing something like a coin or cup in my LDs (mostly when I was a kid) only to wake up having my hand squeeze really hard. It was as if i was holding the object and it just vanished... Oh well It is fun to think about.

uhh flying is the easiest thing to me to do in a dream, in my first dream i just pointed my arms foward(like superman) and started to fly instantly, it was so easy =p

I've always have trouble flying too. I think that it has to do with the fact that I get less and less lucid as the dream wears on. My very first lucid in which I stayed in the dream for more than a half second I was flying fine at the beginning only in small vertical circles and less and less as time went on. Looking back on it I was only in control for a short time in that dream. I agree with abra that it shouldn't be that hard for us. What we need to realize is that it is only a dream, and more importantly it's our dream in which we are in absolute control. That's easy to say but if you truly believe that it should help. It's a "there is no spoon" sort of deal. He he I hope that made sense to someone other than myself.