Thread: What actually is a "Sci Fi'

A sci-fi is a something that falls under the genre of "science fiction". common "sci-fi"s include movies/novels/games with space travel or interplanetary connections or aliens. Star Wars is a good example of a sci-fi movie. is this what you meant, or are you referring to something in lucid dremaing that i haven't heard of because im such a newbie.

Probably the Latter. So many 'In Jokes".

Isn't it just some weird term of nesgirl's? I'm interested to read what she says when she sees this thread.

EDIT: i found this, because i felt like it:

Originally posted by nesgirl119+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(nesgirl119)</div>

...sci-fis are when you go into a LD type thing similar to a FA, but it is so realist, w/the 2nd you & all that it can be somewhat scary...[/b]

EDIT 2: this makes more sense:

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Sci-fi is short for Science Fiction. I call any dream having to do with things not having to do with this world, but maybe the universe this. Like having 2 of you, or you are flying, but cannot walk, b/c gravity has no effect on you. I don't know why people ask me, \"How do you sci-fi?\", considering it is just a WILD!

So a 'sci-fi' is either a dream which is 'out of this world' (isn't that most anyway?) or just a WILD, or it's just short for Science Fiction... or all three at once. It also specifically involves False Awakenings.

A scifi is what she calls an OBE when she's afraid in admitting it is.

I don't believe a word she says anyway.

Originally posted by Wicked
A scifi is what she calls an OBE when she's afraid in admitting it is.

I don't believe a word she says anyway.

Yeah but it's not even really an OBE. Anyway, it was just a term coined by one of our members. I think I'll stick with my current lucid dreaming vocabulary.

Originally posted by Wicked
A scifi is what she calls an OBE when she's afraid in admitting it is.

Now wait a sec! It is so true that they are combined WILDs, FAs, & Real life, but I am definitely not pushing up daisies, like wicked says that I am! Last night, I was able to activate the emergency pull on my sash, & that was so fun (see DJ!)

So a 'sci-fi' is either a dream which is 'out of this world' (isn't that most anyway?) or just a WILD, or it's just short for Science Fiction... or all three at once. It also specifically involves False Awakenings.[/b]

Yeah....sci-fis can be out of this world, if you decide to fly there. It usually starts in the same position as a WILD, so that is why I say it is kind of a WILD. It is really abreviated for Science fiction(I like to refer to it as that, b/c if you are flying, unable to touch stuff, & you have an unconscious duplicate, in my opinion, that is kind of Science Fiction) It really starts off like a FA, & well......it is almost realistic, but I am not that gullible, especially in LDs & Sci-fis.

I don't believe a word she says anyway[/b]

I don't know why you think that I am a liar, b/c all that I am saying is what I feel, hear, & see! So excuse me, wicked!

Nesgirl, two thing.. One: Why bothering making a new word for somehting that already has a name( if you even do it) and
2: Sci Fi is a really lame name for a method. Becase, honestly, you sound so freekish when you use sci-fi as a lucid dremaing technique/ experince...what ever you say...

To me "Sci-FI" is Star Wars, The Matrix, lots of lazers and robots, Time Travel..

Read the Google Definition.

Originally posted by Google+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Google)</div>

A type of narrative about or based upon real or imagined scientific theories and technology. Science fiction is often peopled with alien creatures and set on other planets or in different dimensions.[/b]

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It is really abreviated for Science fiction(I like to refer to it as that, b/c if you are flying, unable to touch stuff, & you have an unconscious duplicate, in my opinion, that is kind of Science Fiction)

I realise that's your opinion, but for me "Sci-Fi" is a term which is already occupied by something completely different.

Originally posted by barbizzle
Nesgirl, two thing.. One: Why bothering making a new word for somehting that already has a name( if you even do it) and
2: Sci Fi is a really lame name for a method. Becase, honestly, you sound so freekish when you use sci-fi as a lucid dremaing technique/ experince...what ever you say...

Okay, then what should I call a Sci-fi? Well, you know the reasons, & it is a combination of 3 things: WILD, FA, & Real Life.
I also don't really understand why you like to make fun of me, either.

ok, I get the whole combination of WILD and FA thing, but where does the Real Life part come in? o.O?

Call it a Wifa. Wake Initiated False Awakening. Wifa has a nice sound to it heh.

Okay, then what should I call a Sci-fi? Well, you know the reasons, & it is a combination of 3 things: WILD, FA, & Real Life.[/b]

call it insanity...

I think nesgirl has made some really good points, the definition of sci-fi:-

[quote]Science fiction is a [size=18]form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology upon society and persons as individuals.

The above quote says it all.

nesgirl has a great imagination for dreaming, i cant see the problem.

If her 'lucidity' is triggered by referring to her experiences as 'sci-fi' then that’s her business, if other people like to refer to them using definitions created by LaBerge, that’s their business. Why try and isolate someone who uses imagination in their voyage?

"A spontaneous recognition that the quality of the experience is in some indefinable way different from that of waking life".

I think referring to them as Sci-Fi’s is a good idea, it helps the imagination to develop the experience into something exciting and innovative.

Who also forgets the word attentive?

Thanx for standing up for me, Mystical Journey!
Well, & I should mention why it is similar to real life. You see, any place you see here is the same as in real life, you can do some remote viewing here, & time in Sci-fis is the same as time in real life!

There are already words for the things the says she does(wich i dont belive she does as much as she says she does)

Im not Clarity!

Im not Clarity! Confused [/b]

she is too out of it to tell the difference...

Okay! Would you quit making fun of me? I only say what I can say about what I do at night in my own terms, & don't make fun of Clarity, either, b/c that is not funny!

He wasnt making fun of Clarity or you nesgirl

i feel like im playing ping pong and im the ball (lol).

Yes WILD is Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming, going from wake to the dream world consciouss. Inside the head. Can be very vivid, and for some more real than real itself.

Yes FA is False Awakening, where you mind trick you into believing your physcialy waking up and getting out of bed. But your not aware of the trick and your tricked. If you somehow during a FA notice that you are dreaming your experiencing MILD, Mnemonic Induced Lucid Dreaming, where you become aware of dreamsigns or just the feeling of the dream world. And become Lucid that way.

Yes Real Life is... very vivid and truly real. Which also every higher state of awareness can be.

But then... there is other terms, like;

OBE, Out of Body Experience, where the double travels outside(not inside) the physcial body in real time, which is right here and now in this reality. Very real indeed (Real as in very real). I have experienced a few. And differate them from LD.

then there is

AP, Astral Projection where the double travels outside the body, into other dimensions, realities and so on. Not real time in this physcial reality like OBE.

You see, the terms are there. But you choose somehow to make up your own, combine terms that cant really be combined, and claim that they are differnt from than the terms that already excist. This is confusing!

Offcourse call your experiences what you will, but we have to agree on that we are talking about the same thing. Or else, again, confusion will take place.

Originally posted by Jammy
Yes WILD is Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming, going from wake to the dream world consciouss. Inside the head. Can be very vivid, and for some more real than real itself.

Yes FA is False Awakening, where you mind trick you into believing your physcialy waking up and getting out of bed. But your not aware of the trick and your tricked. If you somehow during a FA notice that you are dreaming your experiencing MILD, Mnemonic Induced Lucid Dreaming, where you become aware of dreamsigns or just the feeling of the dream world. And become Lucid that way.

Yes Real Life is... very vivid and truly real.

But then... there is other terms, like;

OBE, Out of Body Experience, where the double travels outside(not inside) the physcial body in real time, which is right here and now in this reality. Very real indeed (Real as in very real). I have experienced a few. And differate them from LD.

then there is

AP, Astral Projection where the double travels outside the body, into other dimensions, realities and so on. Not real time in this physcial reality like OBE. *

You see, the terms are there. But you choose somehow to make up your own, combine terms that cant really be combined, and claim that they are differnt from than the terms that already excist. This is confusing!

Well, you got me, but I still know that I am dreaming, so I am still Lucid in Sci-fis!! Then again, I am a shroom, & Sci-fiing Michelle & I always argue about it being one!!

wow you posted fast

Yes during OBE/AP(Also now known as Sci-fi ), and Lucid Dreams, your offcourse as awake and aware as when in real life and that whats so great about them

By the way whats a shroom?

Originally posted by Jammy
wow you posted fast

Yes during OBE(Also now known as Sci-fi), and Lucid Dreams, your offcourse as awake and aware as when in real life and that whats so great about it

By the way whats a shroom?

A shroom is someone in real life that cannot tell if they are awake or if they are dreaming. I am not always aware in real life(especially when changes occur), so that is what makes me kind of a shroom! My mom once pulled a mean prank, in which she swapped my gnome statue w/another one. I go up & ask her as soon as I look at it, "Mom, am I dreaming?" She says, "Now what makes you say that?" I show her the gnome statue, & she just laughs. I tell her that it isn't funny b/c I am not always able to tell in real life (I am always able to tell in LDs!).

Shrooms are drugs.