Do you feel things in LDs?

[n00bf0rlyf3]

Do you feel stuff like sex, cuts, walking or basically anything even like smoking weed?

[Superdale56]

I know you can feel pain and shock because i had a dream where scream was chasing after me. I was really scared and i ran out of breath. Then i got stabbed. Nothing to be scared of it terrifying but it doesnt hurt it feels like youve just been bitten by an insect. As for sex, you cant feel it but it turns you on. Walking, no you just feel a bit woozy and taking drugs i have no idea. Other people may feel diffrent things though. Hope this helps!

[deepsleep]

I know you can feel pain and shock because i had a dream where scream was chasing after me. I was really scared and i ran out of breath. Then i got stabbed. Nothing to be scared of it terrifying but it doesnt hurt it feels like youve just been bitten by an insect. As for sex, you cant feel it but it turns you on. Walking, no you just feel a bit woozy and taking drugs i have no idea. Other people may feel diffrent things though. Hope this helps! How pleasant! Haha! Some people say they CAN feel sex. I guess it depends on where your imagination takes you. Obviously if you've never had real sex, you wont feel sex in your dream. I had a dream where I smoked a cigar and something about it made me feel sick. I had a dream where I was really high in a tree and smoked weed and I got all loopy and fell out of the tree. Non lucid though.

[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.

[liVed]

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.

[haithem]

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. you are the winner to a trip to hawai with DR STEPHEN LABERGE.just kiding

[Mopy]

I felt pain in my dream, most of the time when you fall in your dream you normally getup, guess what, this time I Hit the ground, I just lie there in pain. I could feel the heat coming out of fire, the cold of water. As for drugs I have no idea either.

[siuol]

Things like sex and drugs can range from feeling like absolutely nothing to better than real life. Heres how I understand it, I forgot where I learned this so if I'm wrong someone correct me. Your nerves do not do the feeling, they send electrical messages. A property of fire is not to feel hot, that feeling is already in your head, and being close to the fire, your brain uses that feeling to interpret the stimulus. So what that means is that every possible touch, feeling, sound, taste, or anything sensory we have experienced in addition to ones we have not already experienced are available to us in our dreams. If you have not experienced something, the feeling is already in your brain somewhere, however not knowing exactly what it is, you may not get it exactly right, or not even close. Your brain will get the closest possible thing it can manage for you, and you are only restricted by your imagination.

[DeletePlease]

Yup, you can feel plenty of things in LDs. Next time you become lucid, try saying "this is going to be amazing", "this will hurt", "this will tickle", etc. As long as you believe in X, it'll happen.

[superchaz]

i think you feel as much as you feel things in the real world. Like if you think its colder in the nights then a dream night will be freezing as the dream world often exagerates feeling as there aren't any electrical impulses to tell you whats what.

[Erii]

Yes, mostly. It depends a lot on your recall/how vivid, the dream was though

[Twoshadows]

I have had dreams where I feel things intensly. But other dreams where I feel things in a more muted way. I do know that the more I focus on something, the more I notice the feeling. For example, one of my lucid goals was to put my hand into a fire and burn it off...and then to regrow it. But the fire became way too hot and painful, so I didn't succeed in burning it all off. But I was very focused on it.....watching it smoke and smolder. It felt very real. But another time I was able to pull my head off my body with no pain at all. It might be because that was a less realistic thing to do.