Hello I'm new to this forum. I'm wondering if anyone has ever, not so much, questioned the reality of your surroundings to see if it's really a dream...but questioned the fantasy or illusion of your surroundings when you know you are dreaming?

That may sound backwards to some, but sometimes I have a real hard time believing that all the detailed scenery that I experience during lucid dreaming is "all in my head". I mean, how can my brain "paint" such a picture when I can't do that when I'm awake?

I mean, things are very solid, colorful, I can't always control what's happening, in fact, last night I had a "lucid dream" where I asked myself If I was dreaming, and I answered to myself "No, this is too real". So I went on in my dream convinced it was real.

And then I woke up.

I have had lucid dreams for years, since I was a kid (I'm 35 now). After all my experiences of lucid dreaming, I'm more and more questioning that it's "all in my head". I mean, with so many stories and accounts of people who have OBE's, and all kinds of other strange experiences...could this be some other "plane", "world", "dimension", whatever you want to call it?

One of the last lucid dreams I had, I remembered to hold up my hand and flex my fingers, and it was just as real as if I was awake, and then I told myself, "Can you believe that you are actually lying in your bed with your eyes closed, motionless, with the cat laying next to you?" It was really hard to believe even though I knew it was true...

keith9