Dang left hemisphere

[sneak]

Howdey everyone, I just joined and have had a limited number of short LDs in the past year. I'm 20 Y.O. and live in south eastern Minnesota on a farm. What I want to ask everyone about is that I am a VERY left brained person. I know physics well, learn to use machinery VERY effectively VERY quickly and so on and so forth. Could the fact that my left hemisphere is so active and used so much in what I do be detrimental to the ease of realizing that I am dreaming because everything looks and feels so dang real? Paul T

[Yosemine]

Well, you see, everyone has dreams that feel real. I do not know how to use machinery quite well, and I've never studied physics, but my mind can simulate how I think it would feel because obviously if it feels how I think it would I couldn't argue. I dream of things I know of well. I've had dreams of running because I run at school, and dreams of biking because I like to bike. Those feel perfectly real. I can also think logically in some of my dreams (just last night I figured out something must be floating because it was in denser salt water instead of fresh water in my dream). What I'm trying to convey is that everyone has lifelike dreams because even if you don't know how to do something it'll behave like you think it will plus I at least normally dream about things I know. What I think you'll find is that it isn't things looking and feeling fake that will make you realize you are dreaming, but also the situations you might face. Though I may dream of riding my bike like in real life, I may blow out both tires at the same time in the dream which had never happened in real life (what are the chances of that?) Also, no matter how well you think you know something you may not dream of it that way. As a US citizen, I know what a quarter looks like very well; I see them every day! However, in one lucid dream I got lucid because I noticed that the quarters I was holding were octagonal instead of circular. Though I "should" have dreamt of circular quarters I didn't. There is also a dream feeling you might learn to recognize. I can't quite explain it because I don't even know what the feeling is. There just is this feeling sometimes that you can recognize after remembering a lot of your dreams that could signal that you are dreaming. Granted, none of the above is proven, but I'm just using some logic and relating it to personal experience. I'm sure that from what you described that your lucid dreaming frequency should be so different from it. Maybe breaking physics will be more enjoyable to you as you know it so well! And of course welcome to Dream Views! Most people here are very helpful and friendly (mods included) so ask whatever questions you wish. Chat (upper right corner) can help get quick answers if you want.

[sneak]

I almost never dream of things that I do very often, infact I almost never dream of doing something that I have ever done before, but it's like my mind KNOWS what I am doing is real when it truely is not a very real situation that I would be doing at all... it's acttually a very fantastic and unbelievable set of consequences that I believe in. It's a real pain in the rear... OH and another thing to add to that is that the last time I had any sort of "scarry" dream was back when I was about 7 and Couppa(spelling) from the original Mario brothers was chasing me around. The only three times I have been lucid at all were when I was Concious from the very beginning of anything happening. One woke me up the intsant I realized I was dreaming, another the instant I became lucid I had a rocket coming right at my face which when it passed the unbelievably loud noise from that woke me up. The third one started and ended with a song, and I was aware that I was lucid from the momment the song started, but the dream was spectacular and ended very abruptly after about 30 seconds. All of my non intentional dreams seem to have a calm quiet ease to them. Even if I need to assasinate someone, I will do it very quietly and artistically, but nomatter what I'm doing everything allways makes sence. I guess I really need to start doing RC on a regular basis, not just when I suspect something is "off." Sorry it's such a long winded reply, and thanks for offering your oppinion.