I guess my question to you is...
If the general consensus is that lucid dreams are (literally) limited to your own imagination...why haven't you ever taken the initiative to do any of these sorts of things? :-?
Depends on the dream and the dreamer. I have dreams that "evolve a little weirdly", and I have dreams that are as structured as any story I've ever read or seen. Dream content (much like their structure) depends on an infinite number of factors; including the dreamer's familiarity with narrative and story-telling (as even Dr. Stephen LaBerge noted, in Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming), and factors as seemingly-unrelated as the dreamer's state of mind, throughout the previous day. There are people that don't dream in color. There are people who have never smelled anything in a dream. There are people who can't read in dreams. And, in all cases, there are the opposite.
You should not take your own dreaming experiences as a rule for how other people must dream, because you'll usually be wrong.
That's not mine. Every now and then, my brain will lose focus, and things will be just completely disjointed, or illogical. But, 8x out of 10, my dreams are fairly structured, and only shift track periodically.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ed77
I understand that that's just your opinion, but it's simply not true. It may be, in your case, but it is - in no way - universal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ed77
I would suggest that you actually take more initiative in inducing these kinds of experiences. Even the coolest thing that you mentioned seemed to be by coincidence. (You said you met your deceased grandfather. Did you summon him, or did you just happen to run into him? There is a difference. If you summoned him, why not try to summon a dragon and fight him? Or why not try to walk out into traffic and stop a car with your bare hands? It's your dream. Remember? :) )