In your words, what is the difference between Lucid Dreaming and regular dreams. I've read a lot on it, but it gets to technical. So just in simple words.
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In your words, what is the difference between Lucid Dreaming and regular dreams. I've read a lot on it, but it gets to technical. So just in simple words.
Thanks
Just to add another note - I have had dreams where I knew I was dreaming and in fact thought about other dreams I have had while I was in the dream.
That's the only difference. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Irishdreamer
A lucid dream is a dream in which you know you are dreaming. A "regular dream" is a dream that you pretty much go through without the knowledge that it is a dream.
That's it. :content:
So I could be lucid dreaming without realizing that I was doing it. I have always had vivid full color, multi-aspect dreams. I need to work on controling them, huh?
Lucidity has nothing to do with "control" (meaning that you can be in a lucid dream.. but still not be able to affect any changes).
Lucid dreaming is merely the "awareness" that you are dreaming WHILE you're dreaming.
Did you ever say (or think) to yourself, "I'm dreaming"?. If so, then you were definately lucid.
Next time, if you're in doubt, do a "reality check". The reality check that has never failed me is the "plug my nose and see if I can breathe" reality check. It never hurts to do your favorite reality check a couple of times or even do two different ones.. just to really convince yourself!
In simple words? The problem is that there is no simple answer to the question you're asking.
While the definitions given above are certainly valid, and easy to use in 90% of the cases, you will find that they do not fully cover the full spectrum of possible experiences. There's a whole grey area of dreams that according to these definitions 'might or might not be lucid'. (In fact, if pressed one could use the above defintions to claim that each and every dream is a lucid dream, which is ofcourse ludicrous, but still technically correct).
Lucid dreaming, above all, is an experience... something that simply cannot be captured fully into words, whether those words or complex or simple :)
The simplest way, in my opinion, to get to what lucid dreams are, is to read dreams of others and try to imagine what it must have been like, what it must have felt like.
That, in my opinion, will tell you a whole lot more then any definition will.
Just my 2 cents,
-Redrivertears-
In A LUCID DREAM your aware your dreaming you know you are when your normally dreaming your unaware its a dream.
Then I think my reccuring gold fish dream is Lucid. While I am in the dream I know its a dream and I know I have dreamed it befor, the problem is this is the only place I can feed these damn fish. I actually feel guilty in my dream that I had not fed them in a while! Poor fish, I wish they'd die already.
If you have good dream recall, you probably are very familiar with how it feels to be in a typical dream. You know that the way you experience the world, the way you react to things, the thoughts you have, are different from when you are awake.
A lucid dream is a dream where your waking life's mind gets transplanted into a dream. Its not that a lucid dream is different from a regular dream. It's that you are different in the dream. You experience the same dream more fully when you are lucid.
But there's a lot of gray area. And your mind in a lucid dream is more of a smashed together and confused combination of 'dreaming you' and 'awake you'.