Thread: *IMPORTANT* A Question *IMPORTANT*

Levels of awareness vary, even when awake. Learn to ask questions to be answered in the Lucid dreamstatee itself. One will learn better.

Thanks Mr. Philosopher, I didn't make the connection the awareness... I have no Idea why, but I was thinking about awareness but not in relation to this question.

-CV

Awareness is an exercise in will. It also determines the amount of integration and distinction between the self and the environment.

Awareness is composed of both domain and range--the number of body senses you dream in, and the clarity of that sense.

As far as asking questions go, we often ask a question of that which cannot answer it because it is not the answer to the question that we seek.

Fair Enough.
-CV

Looks like your question was answered, CV. Glad to see you've made progress in lucid dreaming - I remember when I first saw you around the boards, and you've come a pretty good ways since then.

Since Philosopher's identified why you didn't feel like you were "living" inside the dream, I'll say what you can do within the lucid dream to feel like you're living inside it. Once you've attained enough awareness of yourself and your surroundings, focus on the environment and everything around you, using ALL of your senses. Engage your ears, move your limbs around, feel the air hitting your hands as you swing them calmly around you, take a deep breath, change your perspective (as in, climb up on a table or crawl under a chair, maybe stick your head outside a door and look around, something like that that changes your altitude or visual angle). Keep paying attention to these things until they've gained so much visual detail that it's like you're experiencing the world in your waking state. Worked for me!