Thread: Do you feel things in LDs?

If you can imagine it then you can experience it in dreams. Even things you would never be able to otherwise. For example what if you looked at a new color in a dream what would it look like? Your mind would make up what it would look like. If you got drunk in a dream you would feel what your mind imagines being drunk feels like even if you never actualy have before. Its all based on schemas, expectations and prior experiences.

Originally Posted by MadMonkey

If you can imagine it then you can experience it in dreams. Even things you would never be able to otherwise. For example what if you looked at a new color in a dream what would it look like? Your mind would make up what it would look like. If you got drunk in a dream you would feel what your mind imagines being drunk feels like even if you never actualy have before. Its all based on schemas, expectations and prior experiences.

I completely agree. The things I've experienced in waking life felt the same in my dream (note: not lucid dreams), like: swimming, being cold, being scared, cutting myself, sex, etc.
But then I had dreams where things happened to me that I haven't experienced in real life, like getting shot for example. I've never been shot in real life, but I imagine it would hurt and guess what, in the dream I was having it hurt like hell.

I'd have to say that some things change in lucid dreams though, because you are aware they're not real. This doesn't mean you can't feel them, but some things change. Like the way we would feel pain for instance.

Originally Posted by MadMonkey

If you can imagine it then you can experience it in dreams. Even things you would never be able to otherwise. For example what if you looked at a new color in a dream what would it look like? Your mind would make up what it would look like. If you got drunk in a dream you would feel what your mind imagines being drunk feels like even if you never actualy have before. Its all based on schemas, expectations and prior experiences.

EXACTLY.
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