Thread: Hey is lucid dreaming true, can I control my dreams and dream what I want...??

Of course!You can know that you are dreaming and your body is in bed, and you would have full control. And with practice, it becomes an experience as true as waking life, and even more intense! You may surprised that such an amazing thing is not common. You'll see us complain about that everywhere. You see, this concept is hard for people to accept, and it's relatively new, so it needs time to catch on, but your one of the lucky minority who stumbled upon it!
When you tell someone about lucid dreaming, the most common response you will get is:"did you do crack!?". See why it is uncommon!?

Yes it's true, in fact it's even been scientifically proven by recording pre-agreed upon eye signals that volunteers made while dreaming.

Lucid dreaming is really a simple concept.
A lot of people like to describe it as something very new age and mysterious, but the only thing a lucid dream really is, is any regular, ordinary dream where you happen to realize that you are dreaming.
And since dreams are created by your thoughts, expectations, desires etc, and are always based on things that you can imagine, you can also - after some practice - experience things very vividly more or less on command.

Think about this - you can daydream that you are walking down the street and hear a lot of traffic noise, and that you suddenly meet someone you know, and the enter a shop, and so on - and daydreams are technically a form of dreams, although obviously not nearly as vivid as dreams you have during the night.

The reason why dreams can feel so realistic is because your brain makes up models based on what you expect from waking life.
If you see a barrier in a dream, then you expect it to be solid and impenetrable - so therefore it will feel solid as well.
And you cannot easily walk through it in the beginning, because you are not familiar with how it feels to walk through solid barriers.
Same thing with flying - if you jump into the air in a lucid dream, you will expect gravity to pull you down.
So it might feel just like jumping in waking life, because you are most used to that feeling when you jump.

All these obstacles can be overcome with practice, and by changing your way of thinking about the world.
If you want something or someone to appear in a lucid dream then it's often a good idea to "cheat" by imagining that things will appear around corners, instead of trying to conjure them.

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Yes, lucid dreams do exist. They are normal dreams that you are already having. With one difference. In lucid dream, you know you are dreaming and you have access to some of your daytime memory. So you remember who you are, that you are sleeping in your bed and dreaming, and also your goals - what you wanted to do in a LD. Happy dreams

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