Thread: Not sure if this is lucid dreaming

I have been having lucid dreams since I was little. I usually recognize when im in a dream every night. But I have also been experiencing something else shortly after I started having lucid dreams. I am able to induce a lucid dream while still awake. My eyes are open and its like day dreaming, except I have complete control of everything and its just as vivid as a lucid dream. Its easiest to do when its quiet. I'm not sure if there is another name for this or what. Has anyone else experienced this?

I like to go back to place I have been to before. they are the easiest to go to but every once in a while I'll invent a place and try to be creative. I'm just not sure how many other people experience this.

.....You can have a lucid dream whenever you want?

In my hours of research every day, I never read about that. That's incredible, and I envy you.

SPlynter, can you explain exactly what happens when you enter this state of mind?

Yeah, if you know how it works, tell us!... Of course, if you knew, you probably wouldn't be asking about it... Lucid dreaming while awake sounds so much better than having to wait for night to come!

I'm not 100% sure how it works. But this is what it's like. Its going to be hard to explain. You know whenever you focus on doing something (like a sport) and you focus on making it perfect, you kind of imagine yourself doing it in the third person over and over again? It's kind of like that except try to go into the first person, by then I have no feeling or anything of the world outside of my mind. I hear no noises, I smell no scent, and I don't feel anything from the physical world, only the world I create in my head. It's hard at first because your unconscious mind is creating scenery on it's own like in a dream. You have create everything in your world on your own. It's a lot easier to stay in whatever this is than a lucid dream. Like if your adrenaline starts pumping, you won't wake up or anything like that. Like I said, I don't completely know how it works, it just happens.

I know that's not what you wanted to hear, but it's all I know. I'm sorry.

Ooh and no, I'm not able to do it whenever I want. It's sometimes hard to focus and get into it. But if I'm in a quiet place, I can induce it fairly quickly.

Actually, that was what I wanted to know. I have really involving daydreams sometimes where I just stare off into space in the real world and lose a lot of my outside senses. But I don't think I can make it as vivid as a lucid dream. If you were to fly in one of these lucid daydreams, would you really be able to feel the wind on your skin, hear the world go by? If not, I think that's just regular daydreaming. If so, then once again, that's incredible. I can imagine sounds and feels when I daydream, but I don't literally feel them, I just think them. Does this sound like what happens to you?

Sorry I didn't add this to my last post. Like I said, it's hard to explain. Yes, when I fly I do feel the wind and hear everything while they fly past me. Once I create the place, my mind takes over. Like when I first get into the daydream, it's just all white unless I already had a place in mind that I've been to before. I stay there and create the place and if I forget a small detail, my mind will automatically put something in that blank space wherever it is. Like I said earlier, you (or I) only need to focus on the place, not the feelings and sensations. There is no need to make yourself feel something (like a sound or smell or feel of a material) because your mind will do it for you.

My theory is that I've gotten so used to having lucid dreams that my mind just automatically goes into that state of mind. I wish I knew how it worked because if I did I could explain better and would teach you to do it as best as I can but explaining something that is pretty much unexplainable because of how mysterious the human brain is.

I'm not sure if this is a contributing factor to this, but I have an extremely good photographic memory and I'm used to remembering places I have been and the very small details of those places.

WOW... you're the first person I've ever heard of who can do that, and to be honest, I don't know what it is. I think it may be a skill unique to you. You should send a message to one of the dream guides (I think they have green stars under their user names). Maybe they know more about it than I do. Good luck!