Thread: Quiet , serene lucid dreaming . Is that possible ?

This question has been on my mind a while , but i am not Lucid so i've got to ask you experienced ones . Is something like that even possible , or do you always have to DO stuff in your dreams ? What i mean is , for you experienced lucid dreamers out there that have the possibility to set yourself a task , can you just imagine a nice beach with a sunset , sit there and look around abit and enjoy your surroundings ? And sortoff keep it like that ? Whether you want it like that is ofcourse a different question i guess...

If i am thinking too simple , just tell me know nothing about it naturally

But i hope you know what i mean , i always read about you people fight dragons , fligh to the moon , shoot fire out your arms etc . This is a bit the opposite , you just stand there and look / feel what is happening.

Is it also even achievable practically? Is the dream not slipping away from your control and such if you don't do stuff ?

I read in the stabalizing guide that it's best to keep doing things, from my few lucid dreams I found that when I started thinking about real life I fell out of the dream, and if you're just sitting on a beach your mind would probably wander. You can do anything in a dream, it's just your imagination, it's just that most people want to do things that aren't possible in real life.

sure you can have a nice, peaceful lucid dream. if you're "not doing anything" you may just be more in the moment than you would be otherwise. one time i was standing on what looked like the deck at my house just watching some birds flying by, other times i've enjoyed the landscapes without a strong urge to do something cool before i woke up. in fact, one of my favorite places to be at in a lucid is a particular beach i like.

It is possible, has been many times staring just at some sort of place I think is cool, like that zombie-filled bridge in a giant river with a cool sunset (That is peaceful for me), or the time with the giant churchs, or the time with the nice forest.

Originally Posted by Walms

like that zombie-filled bridge in a giant river with a cool sunset (That is peaceful for me)

haha walms, the living dead give you inner peace. how nice.

Originally Posted by cygnus

sure you can have a nice, peaceful lucid dream. if you're "not doing anything" you may just be more in the moment than you would be otherwise. one time i was standing on what looked like the deck at my house just watching some birds flying by, other times i've enjoyed the landscapes without a strong urge to do something cool before i woke up. in fact, one of my favorite places to be at in a lucid is a particular beach i like.

Wow cygnus , that is sort of what i was thinking about . It sounded allmost "peacefully" in the words that you wrote too i must say haha

Beeing "in the moment" could you stay there if you would want to , atleast for a while ?

I can imagine it is completely impossible to not have things happening out of the blue in your dream , nothing is stable , your unconscious mind wil allways come up with something new. Complete controll might not even be wanted sometimes. But the continued "in the moment" as you say is indeed what i mean.

well, i think one of the more fundamental skills in LDing is to remain in one location instead of shifting into another. so yeah, try it out!

I just have this thought suddenly , that it might be both the easiest and most difficult thing together ???

easy : if your mind-set happens to be that way.....sortoff
difficult : if you would want it to be that way ....

It's a controlling of the moment AND letting it go ?? Which things do you want to controll and which things not ? Difficult to put into words.
hmmm , just a thought , i don't know