Thread: Is ANYTHING possible in a LD?

Originally Posted by Shift

I hate that myth.

Its not a myth from personal experience, I have tried them before and i cannot do either. have you got evidence to prove the opposite?

Yea, I've accomplished both. Don't let other peoples' ideas limit your LD abilities though, it's not worth it.

Originally Posted by Shift

Yea, I've accomplished both. Don't let other peoples' ideas limit your LD abilities though, it's not worth it.

Exactly. Why would you be able to fly if you can't simply turn on and off a light.

Try it out with the full extent that you actually think it's possible, and it will happen!

Originally Posted by IndigoGhost

Its not a myth from personal experience, I have tried them before and i cannot do either. have you got evidence to prove the opposite?

Ive got some too. Actually, I have yet to fail at doing either. Electronics always work perfectly for me, even my watch (more than once it has even actually kept the correct time, or at least very close!), and turning the lights on and off in an LD is no more difficult than flipping a switch IRL...I dont know. Maybe its just because I work around electronics so much and know how they work well enough to be able to duplicate it in a dream. And I almost never forget what a location looks like, so I can just remember how things should look when the light comes back on.

Thats strange, Well i have never been able to do either.

The one time I tried to flip a switch in an LD it didn't work. But I also had heard that it didn't work...


Damn, I need to get that idea out of my head.

Shift speaks the truth. Say, you hear from someone that light switches don't work in dreams. You find it interesting and you want to try it out for yourself. In your dream you go and attempt to turn on the switch expecting it not to work because that is what you have heard. In dreams, expectations and beliefs can run the dream world. The light switch doesn't work in your dream and now you tell someone else, and they tell someone else, and so on. I too heard that light switches didn't work when I first started LDing. Now in my dreams, if I want them to work...they work. Remember 90% (roughly estimated by yours truly ) of lucid dreaming is in your head. Good luck to everyone!

Yeah but the person who started this 'myth' must have experienced this problem all by himself without hearing about it, then believing everyone has this too in their dreams, he shared it as a way to determine your dreaming.

Look at flying, no-one goes around saying that you can't fly in your dreams but still some people have trouble doing it (including myself althouth that was in non-LDs). Same thing applies to light switches and electronics it depends on the individual.

But I do agree that reading that light switches don't work can actually cause the problem because you assume so but not that its a 'myth' altogether simply cos you don't have trouble with it.

I'm a wee bit stoned so sorry if I'm not making much sense hehe

I think the reason that you cannot understand a concept such as 260 degree vision is because your brain has never experienced it. That does not make it impossible, but you cannot imagine it because you have no basis on which to imagine it.

You can imagine a purple man, becuase you've seen people, and you've seen the color purple. Although, taht's obviously impossible, as no one has purple skin.

However, hook the brain up to 360 degree eyes, and it could indeed see in 360 degree vision. If you give yourself the ability to do so in your dream, your brain will carry out the simulation, and you will percieve something that you may not be able to imagine.

Originally Posted by Hypnagogia

I came to the conclusion that you can't do everything that your mind conceptualizes (...)

Some things may take a little more effort but I think the simplest answer is "if you can imagine it, you can do it", although, yeah, sometimes you unexpectedly end up doing stuff you never imagined.

Originally Posted by Hypnagogia

Look at flying, no-one goes around saying that you can't fly in your dreams but still some people have trouble doing it (including myself althouth that was in non-LDs).

I get the feeling that the problem a lot of people around here have with flying comes from the fact that they keep getting told "oh, don't expect to just take off flying in your first dream 'cause it's hard"... I wonder if it's not an even more widespread myth than non-working light switches.