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

I try so hard to stay calm if lucids, because I'll have a higher chance of waking up if I get emotional. I find it easy, because it's hard to get upset about a world I know isn't real. The only emotion I feel in lucids is happiness or excitement. If I get too excited I wake up. That theory from the Matrix does make sense. Kind of like you can't know what happiness is if you have never felt sadness. Happy would just be the way you felt all the time. Ah, I love that movie.

Emotions in my dreams (either lucid or non-lucid) tend to be much stronger than IRL. Every emotion from joy to hate seems to be like this, atleast for me. These strong emotions, to be honest, have helped me in my real life. I have great dream control even non-lucidly (not to be pompous) and have learned to control these hightened emotions when they materialize, like fear or hate. When in the waking life Ive found it much easier to control these emotions because of my dream experiences. I guess it could all be in my head. But isn't all of our thoughts, emotions, dreams, even reality (as we perceive it) just in our head?

Ive learned to suppress my negative emotions and bring out the positive. It seems like the next logical step, in that line of thought, is to bring out emotions at will in a LD. Its almost like shapeshifting but your shifting your emotions and your inside, not your body. It would be cool to experiment with it.