Thread: A Few Questions, If you Don't Mind Answering?

My opinion

1. Yes, but no guarantees that it would be accurate.
2. Your mind will make it up for you if you try.
3. Yes, you can control them if you want, anything is possible in dreams.
4. Maybe, I don't know how you would go about remembering something that you don't remember.
5. Hell yeah!
6. Yes, people have had 360 degree vision etc.
7. Some people perceive their dreams to be hours or even weeks (?) but dreams can only be about an hour to an hour and a half max I believe.
8. Yes, you can kill yourself, but the effects of death may vary from person to person.

The best answer I can give is try it for yourself....everyone's different, so what if I can do it...it may not be for you unless you try it.

IMJ

1. Can you get high in your dream, if you have never experienced getting high? (as in meaning drugs and alcohol)

During a Lucid Dream your mind simulates experiences you have had before. This is what makes dreams sometimes feel so realistic.
With that being said, you are able to conjure any feeling during a LD. So yes

2. Are you able to watch a play or movie that you haven't seen before in your dream? Will your mind make it up for you, or will you be diverted from the screen at the last moment or something?

I assume if you try to watch a move that you haven't seen before your mind will make it up.

3. Is it possible to entirely control your DCs, or will they have a "mind" separate from your wishes?

With enough practice you can fully control your DCs. You just need to tell yourself that your are in full control and whatever you say they do.
As soon as you start believing it, the DCs will.

4. Is it possible to recall an old song, or an old book title that you've seen in real life, during your dream, and remember it until morning? I mean like old memories that you usually won't remember in real life.

Yes it is. Dreams are built on expectations and memory.


5. Is it possible to shapeshift your body in your dream?

Yes

6. Is it possible to change your point of view in the dream and still have control?

Again, yes.

7. Is it possible to extend the length of your dream? This is what I mean: a typical dream, no matter how long it seems like, lasts only about 20 minutes for the average person, because that's how long those particular stages of sleep are. Is it possible to make your dream as long as you want in your mind, and have it only last a few minutes in real life? I mean, it's your dream world right? Time doesn't really have much meaning.

ermm not sure what to say.
You cannot dilate time within a dream, but you can make it seem to go on longer. ie like a movie


8. Is it possible to kill yourself in your dream? Like, say you decide to stab yourself, for whatever reason. In a typical dream, you will wake up the moment before you die. Does the same apply to a lucid dream?

This varies from person to person. It is most likely what you expect to happen that will happen.
If you are convinced that you will wake when you die then you will.

Originally Posted by rymmkon

I have a few questions about Lucid Dreaming, and your control during your dream.
1. Can you get high in your dream, if you have never experienced getting high? (as in meaning drugs and alcohol)
2. Are you able to watch a play or movie that you haven't seen before in your dream? Will your mind make it up for you, or will you be diverted from the screen at the last moment or something?
3. Is it possible to entirely control your DCs, or will they have a "mind" separate from your wishes?
4. Is it possible to recall an old song, or an old book title that you've seen in real life, during your dream, and remember it until morning? I mean like old memories that you usually won't remember in real life.
5. Is it possible to shapeshift your body in your dream?
6. Is it possible to change your point of view in the dream and still have control?
7. Is it possible to extend the length of your dream? This is what I mean: a typical dream, no matter how long it seems like, lasts only about 20 minutes for the average person, because that's how long those particular stages of sleep are. Is it possible to make your dream as long as you want in your mind, and have it only last a few minutes in real life? I mean, it's your dream world right? Time doesn't really have much meaning.
8. Is it possible to kill yourself in your dream? Like, say you decide to stab yourself, for whatever reason. In a typical dream, you will wake up the moment before you die. Does the same apply to a lucid dream?

1. Yes. I'm particularily fond of dream acid.

2. Yes. Your mind makes it up as you go along. But you can't rewind and expect to see the exact same thing again. It will be different every time you watch it. I've done that reading books in dreams.

3. Yes. I find I exert the best control over DCs using emotions. You can usually get them to do what you want, but you can't get them to say what you want. You can control what they say in general, but not word for word.

4. Yes.

5. Yes.

6. Yes. You can have control in a first person or third person view. In one dream I was in two places at once, and both me's were working together to influence one of the dreams I was in.

7. Yes, although that's more about recall and focus than extending dreams.

8. Yes, but you don't necessarily have to wake up.


The only thing I've found that's impossible to do in dreams is fly faster than the speed of light. It' can't be done, and teleportation doesn't count.