In the lucid state, you know whether you dream - no matter if you're lucid in your dream or awake. |
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I'm currently thinking about the quetion: what is the difference between a dream and a lucid dream? When I read about this topic, some people say that you can think clearly, make decisions, focus attention... I think these activities are common in nonLucid dreams as well as in lucid ones. Recall the intentions from waking life? You can do this in nonLucid dreams as well. So I'm looking for something that is not present in nonLucid dreams at all and it's present in lucid ones. Stephen LaBerge in his book say that this something is awareness. What's awareness? - <knowledge or understanding of a subject, issue, or situation> In this case we can say - Knowledge of a sitiation - that means know that what is now happening is a dream, not the reality. When you gain this knowledge, it changes everything. When you gain this knowledge in a dream (I call it MAGIC MOMENT) you become lucid. Well, I don't understand it enough. Let's try to aplly this on waking state. How? I don't know. First thought come to my mind is KNOW that this is reality and not a dream, but when I realize that, no ''magic moment'' appears. The reason why this ''magic moment'' doesn't show up may be that I don't know what this thing called reality really means. Okay, reality means - the real nature of things... Nature???? Nature - the physical world including all living things. Physical??? existing in the real world, nature laws of GAME called life. So how can I be LUCID in waking life? My idea is to KNOW THE REALITY - to know my possibilities according to nuture laws? This leads my to reality check induction technique <which I know is really not a effective way of induction lucid dreams> but it can be effective reminder of knowing the reality - to know my options in real life, but this is not a topic of this threat. I'm not fully satisfied with this theory of mine and I believe there are lots of clever oneironauts who can help me to find the better answer to my question: What is the difference between lucid and nonLucid dreams? |
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In the lucid state, you know whether you dream - no matter if you're lucid in your dream or awake. |
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To be lucid in waking life |
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I personally use a very clear cut definition to determine what is lucid and what isn't. If you are aware you are dreaming, then you are lucid. If you are not aware you are dreaming then it is a normal dream. That simple. The level of clarity within the dream, the amount of awareness and the amount of self control is irrelevant. It depends entirely on if you know you are dreaming or not. |
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I think that opinion is ok to have, but then you would call a dream where you know that you're dreaming a lucid dream, no matter whether you just know it as 'background information' or are consciously aware of that fact, right? |
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Well that is why people often say there are different levels of being lucid. You can be more lucid or less lucid, and that are basically referring to how much awareness you have. Just like there are different levels of how vivid a dream is, and there is different levels of control as well. |
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I 'm not sure whether I already said that, but how about we define lucid with the awareness that we are dreaming instead of with the knowledge of the dream state. |
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You are right, in that a lucid dream is the awareness that we are dreaming. However, it isn't actually clear at times if you are actually aware or just think you are aware. My position is that it is really a judgement call. If you think you were aware, then you probably are and it is a lucid dream. |
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