Hey I got some questions about the nature of lucid dreaming which I just found out about today. I understand the basic idea (taking control of your dreams) but I have some questions about finer points.
Can you feel in a lucid dream? In my normal dreams that I can remember after I've woken up, all that I could feel at the most was kind of a pressure. Can you feel pleasure or pain in a LD or smell and taste?
Do they have levels of vividness that you aren't in control of? Can you take control of a dream and be aware but it be extremely vivid one time and then another not so much? Or is this something that can be controlled with practice?
Can you die in a lucid dream? This has two sides. One is can you just die and then come back in the dream, or just wake up and be fine, and the second is based on a story I heard. I heard a story, hopefully an urban legend, that a man died in his dream which then caused him to die in real life. The basic concept being that if you get shot and die in a dream that is extremely vivid, your body and mind are fooled and react the same way as if it really did happen, thereby shutting down your body.
I would like to try this out but just want to get fact seperated from fiction but also know if there is theory.