Thread: Lazy Lucidity

I had a dream last night. Here's how it goes. You'll laugh. Maybe.

I was walking down an airport looking place, but it was a shoe store. I noticed a COW(Computer On Wheels) as I walked by it. I turned a corner and sat on a part of the wall that was sticking out about three feet. I looked around the corner to see the COW, but it wasn't there.
"This can't be real... Computers don't just disappear!" I said. I started to stand up, but when I was almost up, I felt a lot of pain in my legs. So I sat back down and said,"Oh, it is real..." I begin to get dizzy and I wake up.
I kick myself every time I think about it. Mostly because if it were real, I would have sucked it up and walked away.

While I'm at it, let me ask you this, do you act differently unintentionally in your dreams?

I usually act the same way in dreams as I do in real life. Unless, that is, I'm dreaming I'm someone like Captain Jack Sparrow. Then I'll act like him.

It is crazy how your mind sometimes seems to try and keep you from realizing you are lucid. You were tricked by your own mind. Don't worry about it, it happens to all of us. Just go out and try again next time! Good Luck!

The reason you act differently in a normal dream is because the logic in your brain is totally switched off.

Being concious (i.e. lucid) of course means you understand the things around you.

Originally Posted by slash112

The reason you act differently in a normal dream is because the logic in your brain is totally switched off.

Being concious (i.e. lucid) of course means you understand the things around you.

I disagree
The sole definition of lucidity is 'knowing that you are dreaming'.
I have pretty loose logic in my lucids as well as my nons, it's just a matter of how I feel in the dream.

I often have a 'haze' or 'fog in my non-lucid dreams, and even sometimes in my lucids.
Not sure how to define this, best not to over complicate things.

Originally Posted by no-Name

I disagree
The sole definition of lucidity is 'knowing that you are dreaming'.
I have pretty loose logic in my lucids as well as my nons, it's just a matter of how I feel in the dream.

I often have a 'haze' or 'fog in my non-lucid dreams, and even sometimes in my lucids.
Not sure how to define this, best not to over complicate things.

Well, I keep reading people saying that the logic part of your brain is not active in a dream. but once you are concious, you have logic.

Although, now that I think about it, I haven't really had much logic in LDs. so now I just don't know.