However, I am curious as to how that could happen. Isn't that what RC's are for? |
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However, I am curious as to how that could happen. Isn't that what RC's are for? |
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I had a strange dream last night...
My guess is that some people can't handel it. Which is hard to belive... |
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This guy, , and this guy, , are mine. BACK OFF!
I wonder if you mean a permanent loss of ability to distinguish between dreams and reality or a temporarily one. The latter happened to me and I can explain it, but the explanation must be different, so its only for the latter one. |
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Alright, I see what you are saying, so I understand how it could happen. But I don't think it could happen to me. If I thought that I was still dreaming, and I did a RC and it said I was awake, but I was sure I was dreaming, I would just go on as if I was awake. Because if I was dreaming, no loss there except a boring lucid where I can't fly and blow stuff up with my mind, but if I'm awake, then no harm done either. So if I then woke up, I would be like "Wow, that was weird," and go on with my life. |
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I had a strange dream last night...
wow thats frightening, I didnt know that was possible |
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The mind is decieved fast. Only weak minds can be fooled into thinking they are dreaming while they are actually not. |
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Lucid dreams by type:Accidental LD's: 1
- WILD: 0
- MILD: 3
- MILD: 0
- DILD: 2
- WBTB: 0
- VILD: 0
- DEILD: 2
Total LDs: 8
This is silly. It's a central theme in Taoist philosophy that dreaming can be fundamentally indistinguishable from "reality" and the existential/spiritual significance of such. I've spent quite a while focusing my energy into Lucid Dreaming, and didn't get very far at all before I started to be unable to distinguish reality from dream no matter the RC; there was literally no difference, in novelty or "realness." The only feature which distinguishes them now is the quickly fading nature of their memory. I think this is a more universal awareness, that "reality" is ultimately some form of lucid dream, and there is no real reason any typically characteristic feature of a dream (RCs) would truly mean it is any less real than the "non-dream." I've learned that allowing a "dream" to flow and take place without interfering as if it were "your dream," while maintaining a fully aware and "lucid" mind-state, brings about the greatest value in any "dream" or "real" experience. I'd like to eventually bring this awareness to a level of equilibrium between dream worlds, or ultimately just dream experiences, where they all hold an equal level of "reality" in one's mind. Would be an interesting non-linear state of consciousness. |
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Last edited by PendulumMan; 05-22-2011 at 05:41 AM.
Yeah I don't usualy have this problem, if I were to ask if I was dreaming I usualy become lucid, because a dream just feels diffrent then waking life, though I've had small occurances in dreams were I could sware it's real, but I never got that suspitious in waking life. |
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I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
To lucid dream is my real test
To control them is my cause
o hey my mum had some drugs once for suposidly curing cronic migraines( shehas never found a good remedy though after 3 years she doesnt get many now), anyway one kinda test she tried. The drugs made her have nightmares/terrors and when she woke up she thought everything wasnt real, especially because sometimes colours were off and sounds were distorded. |
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My kitty Wooole!, i love you julan!!!!
"EVERY TIME MASTURBATION KILLS, GOD TURNS YOU INTO A KITTEN!!!"
I still think the best method would to do a RC, and even if you think you are dreaming but the RC says you are awake, to treat it as reality. If it is a dream you have nothing to lose. If it is real, you can rest assured that you are treating it like it is real. |
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I had a strange dream last night...
Whenever this happens to me I turn on a TV or the internet and if I'm reading or seeing something I've never read or seen then I'm usually convinced I'm not dreaming... Of course, it has to be something logical, not something like the news saying pink elephants are flying through your street at the momment... That would be confusing! |
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LD count: 25 and counting
My new dA account: http://vibrationdreams.deviantart.com
RC's have never let me down. Sticking my hand through a wall allways works in my dreams and never does in waking life. |
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Luminous Spacious Dream Masters That Holographically Communicate
among other teachers taught me
not to overestimate the Value of our Concrete Knowledge;"Common sense"/Rationality,
for doing so would make us Blind for the unimaginable, unparalleled Capacity of and Wisdom contained within our Felt Knowledge;Subconscious Intuition.
There is huge difference in dream and the reality. |
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psychedelics? |
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it happens to me quite often actually. i often ask people in reality if this or that actually happened, and they usually give me a wierd look and say no. i guess im just bad at remembering to do RCs. |
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"Nothing is true; everything is permitted... Our Creed does not command us to be free. It commands us to be wise."
"looking into the future is alot like looking at a cake, until youve tasted it, you dont really know what its like. but when you do, its too late anyway."
Current goals: Give another person a dream, have my first lucid dream again, have a dream of death
Well, sometimes it does happen, especially when you have extremely realistic dreams. |
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This could probably happen to someone with schizophrenia. |
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Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
(SP)12 (FA)10 (DEILD Chain)1 (DILD)6 (DEILD)2 (VILD)2
I always have memory's that i cant remember if it was a dream or if it was real. Its usually not a big deal though. I have never thought i had superpowers and then jumped out the window to my death. |
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I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.-Charley pride
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