Thread: How real can dreams get

They can be very real, especially lucid dreams. You see, hear, feel, etc. just like you do in real life. The only difference is that when lucid, you have control over what you see hear feel, etc. But you will have genuine emotions, see very vivid imagery, and probably be fooled most of the time. It's not how you see your dreams, but how you see reality that will help you become lucid. Good luck and don't be fooled!

Real as waking life, or even ''more'': colors will look stronger, more vivid. Why ? You don't need your eyes to see them. The texture of things will feels exactly as they are... if you want; you may want to a stone ground feel like water, or butter.
Dreams are real life - but they are not waking life. They just don't happend at where we define as reality. Yes, you can say they will feel and look like ''real life''.

Yes, dreams could can be as real as waking life. If you can it's possible to activate all five senses so you can even eat in a dream. Dreaming could be more real then waking life as Brunor2 said. It's worth the effort to try lucid dreaming.

To answer the question, I will pose a question of my own. Why in dreams do we go along with it? Why do we not question the fact that we are dreaming, when dreaming? The dream, even regular dreams we only remember, is reality to the mind. We always except the situation we find ourselves in, and go along with it. Like in one of my recent dreams, my room's door lead to a beach, and I never once questioned on how that was possible. That is the answer, because to the mind, dreams are real!

Something I've learned about dreams... though this may just be personal experience talking...

Dreams may feel like real life... but real life never feels like a dream.

However, when I dream, I see perfect details on people's faces if they are people from my waking life; I can feel the wind on my face when I fly (the air even gets colder and I can feel the moisture from the clouds); I can smell scents; feel the exertion in my legs when I run...

Dreams have this incredible ability to feel very real when we dream them... partly why it's so difficult for many of us to realize when we're dreaming!

Originally Posted by SuddenGun007

Like in one of my recent dreams, my room's door lead to a beach, and I never once questioned on how that was possible. That is the answer, because to the mind, dreams are real!

That's a pretty good answer. I've struggled to understand the same. My dream-mind seems pretty gullible.

Originally Posted by RCer

That's a pretty good answer. I've struggled to understand the same. My dream-mind seems pretty gullible.

Well, if it makes you feel any better... when we sleep, our prefrontal cortex's turn off during the night... it's in there that all those wonderful throught processes like logic are turned off, too!

This is why it's a common practice during a WBTB to do something like math or word problems, because it helps turn the prefrontal cortex back on, which leads to an increased chance in falling back to sleep and recognizing a dream for what it is

Originally Posted by Serenity

This is why it's a common practice during a WBTB to do something like math or word problems, because it helps turn the prefrontal cortex back on, which leads to an increased chance in falling back to sleep and recognizing a dream for what it is

You know, that makes complete sense, I never tried doing that in a WBTB, not that it stopped me from having LDs, it just seems like it would make the process a little bit easier.

Originally Posted by Serenity

This is why it's a common practice during a WBTB to do something like math or word problems, because it helps turn the prefrontal cortex back on, which leads to an increased chance in falling back to sleep and recognizing a dream for what it is

You know, that makes complete sense, I never tried doing that in a WBTB, not that it stopped me from having LDs, it just seems like it would make the process a little bit easier.

Think of it this way...

Even in real life, everything you experience is constructed inside of your own head. True, your mind gets sensory input from your eyes, ears, etc - but in the end, the mind interprets this how it wants, and what you experience is not exactly "reality" - it is a simulation of reality created in your mind.

It makes sense then, that your mind has the ability to construct perfectly "realistic" scenarios for itself, even without any sensory input.

In my experience, dreams (especially lucid) can be shockingly real, down to the very tiniest detail. This isn't always the case - often dreams can seem fuzzy or unfocused. It just depends on the night, really.

Originally Posted by SuddenGun007

To answer the question, I will pose a question of my own. Why in dreams do we go along with it? Why do we not question the fact that we are dreaming, when dreaming?

Because our prefontal cortex shuts down when were dreaming, and that puts a big dent in our overall judgment. But it fires back up again once we become lucid....the thing about it though, is things still seem very real.