Thread: Just How Vivid Can Lucid Dreams Get?

They can sometimes make reality look dull.

I finally bought LaBerge's book (Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming), and I'm quite pleased with what I'm learning. I hadn't considered the possibility that LD's could be "realer" than reality. Now I've got all the motivation I need! Thanks to everyone for all the new replies!

Lucid Dreams can definitely be more vivid than real life.Like one time i was in my room and i couldn't tell whether it a dream or real life. Until I notice that some of the stuff weren't mine but they were so real. By then i was lucid, i tried getting out but i was stuck in my room when i went to the hall a magnetic force pulled me back to my room . But i was smarter why try the door when u have a window lol i escaped through the window. I had tried to pass through the wall by charging it but it was like in real life and i couldn't. But the window worked lol!!! Great way of getting out of ur room window...!!

It happens all the time. People wake up confuse and unsure of where they are because the dreaming is as real as this place. The only reason you prioritize this reality is because you end up here most of the time.

Originally Posted by Asymptote

I've had a couple of lucid dreams, but they pale in comparison to some of the experience reports by the more accomplished LDers. I just wondered: how vivid can a lucid dream get? Is it possible to have one that's vivid enough that it might be mistaken for reality?

Just wondering.

Well, this response is going to be redundant since I'm so late to the party. I'll confirm that LDs can be as vivid as anything you can imagine. But don't confuse "vivid" with "mistaken for reality". Even in our most NON-lucid dreams, we routinely mistake fantasy for reality. And it's worth noting that our non-lucid dreams are often far from vivid in any sense of the word. So "vivid" and "seemingly real" aren't aways the same. The real distinguishing factors gravitate around whether you're lucid and how lucid you are. From there you can make things as vivid as your skill level (luck of the draw, in many cases) permits.

In a lucid dream, things can be anywhere on the realism scale. Everything can seem even more vivid than real life. The sights, sounds, smells, and every other aspect can seem superhuman in perceptual intensity. It usually only requires actually paying conscious attention for things to become more solid, more vivid and larger than life.

Originally Posted by Ronstek

LD's can be as vivid and realistic as waking life and thats why we do reality checks, to bring us back from our dream into lucidity so that we can control the direction of the dream.

And we do RCs to allow us to distinguish external reality from dreams. That right there tells you just how convincingly realistic non-lucid dreams are. Even when they aren't realistic at all they are still highly convincing or they wouldn't be non-lucid.