Thread: RAISE YOUR HAND!! - Intro Class Q&A

I have a little question... (Little in words)

Is really ANYTHING possible in a lucid dream? I know people say that You can not read text in a dream, but it has been proven along with a million other things that you can... I just wondered maybe there was something you can't do in a dream no matter how hard you try...

Originally Posted by TheBooneMan

I have a little question... (Little in words)

Is really ANYTHING possible in a lucid dream? I know people say that You can not read text in a dream, but it has been proven along with a million other things that you can... I just wondered maybe there was something you can't do in a dream no matter how hard you try...

Man, you all have some good questions!

My short answer is that anything you can imagine, you can experience in a lucid dream. Some people will have a difficult time accomplishing certain lucid tasks (this certainly includes me!) but these are almost always temporary. I view all of my failures as temporary. I believe that I can do just about anything if I only get good enough at the art of dream control. There are very, very few exceptions to this, IMO.

One area where many people believe there are limitations: how long you can make a dream last. Many believe that you can make a dream feel like it lasts much longer in "dream time" than it does in "waking life" time. But it's not clear how far you can take this, what the physiological limitations might be, and whether the "extreme" time dilation that people sometimes report might be some other type of phenomenon. We may be tackling this on the podcast before too long.

Time is the one constraint that may be beyond our ability to break. That may cut us off from certain goals. For example, I don't see myself counting from one to one-trillion in a lucid dream any time soon.

But apart from that? I can't think of any unbreakable rules. At one time or another, we're all going to come up against some task that seems too difficult at the time, but virtually all of these can be dealt with by expanding our minds and practicing.

Thanks Man! Really means the world to answer my questions dude, I just recently came from a Forum that was very mean and had no sense of humor (The Staff literally bullied everyone). But this place is just awesome! I haven't had a lucid dream that I can say I was proud of yet, but the staff and everybody makes me feel welcome and inspires me to try new things! And I want to thank you for the CanisLucidus!