Thread: Possible To Create Emotions At Will In Lucid Dreams?

Intended and I have been having a discussion in another forum about whether it is possible to have prolonged emotional control during lucid dreams. I know that it is possible to do it for a few seconds at a time, but I want to know what others have experienced first hand in having prolonged experiences of extreme emotions at will. Intended thinks it would take too much concentration and effort and would be too exhausting to maintain. My last post sums up my perspective.

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

The times I was able to control my feelings in lucids, it was a result of changing the scenery, except for one time when I just focussed on feeling total euphoria. It didn't take much effort, but I think holding onto it for a long time might. I created a sexual situation that produced an erotic euphoria that was so great it seemed almost supernatural. It wasn't a result of concentrating on the feeling I wanted. It was a result of the surrounding situation I created. I have on a few occasions created extreme childhood nostalgia by going back in time to my childhood, actually a fictitious imitation of it, and seeing profound visuals. All of those situations were very short because the scenery was quickly shifting. The most extreme moment of childhood nostalgia happened immediately before I woke up, so maybe too much of a rush during sleep causes waking. I have a hard time staying with any one thing in a lucid. The scenery and events are constantly shifting. That probably plays a major role in the difficulty. But I still say that maybe prolonged emotional control can be mastered.

What do you think/know?

I notice that sad emotions like anger or sadness can be overwhelming in a lucid dream like you said somewhat super natural feeling and for me these felling usually do not end a dream. However happiness getting to excited etc. While also on the same scale as the other to emotions seem to be harder to control and can cause you to wake up.

Originally Posted by Brandon Heat

I notice that sad emotions like anger or sadness can be overwhelming in a lucid dream like you said somewhat super natural feeling and for me these felling usually do not end a dream. However happiness getting to excited etc. While also on the same scale as the other to emotions seem to be harder to control and can cause you to wake up.

That's very true, but for some reason all of this reminds me of some of the concepts in the matrix. In the first movie, agent smith is talking to morpheus about how originally the matrix was created so that it would be perfect and everyone was happy and joyful, but that didn't work because the people didn't really believe that the world was real, and that it was suffering and hardships that a human defines reality as. And when the world was all happy and perfect, entire crops of humans were wasted because they woke up. Now when you are in a dream, and you feel saddened or depressed, angry ect. it seems believable and realistic, but when you have over-joyous moments your (subconscious?) mind doesn't seems to believe that you are in reality and wakes itself. It just kept coming back to me as that, and I'd though i'd share it with the rest of you.

Thats an interesting theory I can see what you are saying.

I can see where that might be true, but I really hope it's not. It would be a really depressing fact about lucid dreaming.

The times I created major happiness and other great feelings in lucids, it was like my subconscious immediately went, "Nope! Extreme happiness is not going to be that easy!" I hope it was just a matter of not being accustomed to it, like the first few times you stand up while water skiing and fall down after a few seconds.

One major thing I want to do once I get lucid dreaming down is to go into a room, and the purpose of the room is to make you feel every emotion and feeling (except for pain) and intensify them. You'd be happy, sad, angry, etc.

You know how when you see a movie and you get sad from a sad scene (like a couple scenes in Click) or the movie gets you really pumped and all that? I want to feel that, but a lot more intense. I just hope it doesn't somehow traumatize me.