Thread: Question for LDers: Realness of LDs

I think dream recall has a lot to do with how real your dreams feel.

I'm sure every dream feels real at the time - otherwise it would be extremely easy to become lucid

However, you may not remember it very vividly just because your dream recall is poor. And therefore it won't feel real after waking.

I also read that if you stay awake after having a lucid, you'll remember it in more detail and as more realistic than if you fall back asleep afterwards.

Like when returning from a vacation..

As real as any realized reality!

Levels upon levels upon levels. It is always going to vary until you learn how to focus inside the LD. Once the subconscious mind is used to your conscious mind constantly being focused and forcing clarity.

Once that is done, the stability will make your lucid dreams extremely real. But it is all about practicing focus.

Mine keep getting more real as I have more of them. The last one was scary realistic.

My LDs seem more real than waking life.

All of my dreams feel fairly "real".

I had an LD, when I was about 7 or 8, that I met a boy of about the same age on a beach and we met a dragon...a very cartoon like dragon. Everything was going well for a while (the details are sketchy at this point in my life...I am 30 after all) but for some reason the dragon grabbed the boy and did a knuckle twist in his back (you know, like kids do on the playground) and I tried to run away but couldn't and the dragon grabbed me and did the same. The pain from the knuckle twist woke me up and I could actually feel the knuckle twisting in my spine and I was arching trying to get away from it. It took a minute for the pain to subside, even after I was awake. It was very real...even though cartoon dragons don't exist in waking life. I felt the pain of the event, and in the dream...I was really experiencing what was happening.

Then there are dreams that are very "dreamy" in nature. Where I am an active participant, but there isn't any physical substance to them. These are usually dreams in which I am lucid, but don't take control. I almost always know I am dreaming...it's only recently that I realized control or direction was an option. I didn't know we had choices in dreams...I didn't know they were real.

I will have dreams in which the physical feelings I feel will wake me up, and I can still feel what I was feeling in the dream. I can feel the heat of someone breathing in my ear or the wind blowing in my hair; the water splashing in my face...really feel it. I wake up still feeling it for a moment. These are the dreams that I tend to remember the most. But I also remember dreams that are "dreamy" feeling...I just remember them less and they do tend to feel less real. But it's not something I realize until I wake up.

Just the other day, during a naptime dream, I felt my daughter crawl up on the bed to lay down with me...I reached out to snuggle her and there was no one there. I've had dreams where the cats jumped up on the bed and were playfully biting my hands (I could feel them biting my hands)...and when I reached out to push them away...they weren't there, and I would remember I put them out and wake up...still feeling the places where they had bit me. Another, that I remember quite clearly, is feeling my husband crawl into bed with me in the morning (he works nights) and snuggle up to me...when I reached out to give him a pat, there was no one there and I woke up. Granted, most of these are probably false awakenings, but they are still dreams that feel very real. Maybe that's a start...focus on false awakenings and how real they feel, and try to incorporate that level of reality into your LD's.

I also, truly believe, that the reality of your dreams is a matter of perception. If you believe that your dreams are really taking place in another realm of existance...then they will feel and be very real. If you think a dream is just a dream...it will only be a dream.

Just some personal thoughts and opinions to think about...