Thread: 2 questions.

When your in a LD does it feel like real life but your only dreaming and is it as CLEAR as real life or like a normal dream?

It really depends and varies from time to time. I find though, in most of my Lucid Dreams that it really does feel like "real life" and it is as clear as "real life" too. That why you have to do things called Reality Checks, such as pinching your noes and trying to breathe or pinching yourself to see if it hurts. You do these things because your dreams are so much like real life, you have to do these tests to make sure it's not real life.


I just re-read that and it was very confusing. But I hope you understand! haha

-Repo

It wasnt that confusing, but i didnt know about the reality checks, well i did but i didnt know how to use them, so, if i pinch myself... it shouldnt hurt if im dreaming?, lol.

You've dreamt before, correct? If you have, you'll have had some pretty messed up dreams (eg. being in space playing tennis with a koala. Did that seem real? Don't lie, it did. If it didn't, you would have become lucid. No matter what is happening in a lucid dream, from space koalas to a real life situation it will seem perfectly realistic.

(And pinching yourself will still hurt!!! It is not a reliable reality check. Count your fingers instead)

Yes i had dreamt before but not lucid dreamt and what does counting my fingers have to do with a reality check, like, will i have more fingers in a dream, lol

Yes. Or you should plug your nose and try to breathe, or try to poke a hole in your hand with your finger. The first one works best for me.

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