I’ve been into the whole idea of lucid dreaming for about a year now,
I’ve never had one, but i’ve been close before, i’m trying a few new methods and its part of my new years resolution to try harder to LD.
I have a few questions, i’d greatly appreciate being answered if you don’t mind
Is having an LD like being there, its hard to elaborate on this but i’ll try, you know a dream isn’t reality because it feels different, not because weird stuff happens, but because your not actually in the place your dream takes place in, your just imagining it, does having an LD feel like this, or does it feel like actually being there, do you feel the wind in your face and the floor at your feet?
Can junk food impact on your chances, i’m not going to lie, I eat a lot of it, another resolution is to exercise more, which I’m doing, but can what you eat actually affect your chances?
Can you LITERALLY do anything? I know it may take a while to be able to, but can you actually say like “I want a car” imagine the car, and pop it up infront of you? or say “collapse that building” and it’le collapse?
Can they last ages? I know dreams can feel like ages, i’ve had one that felt like over a week before, and apparently your mind works faster when your sleeping, so could you have like a day long one? or even 2 hours?
I was into this, but then stopped after a while, so imagine me as a newbie, I get regular vivid dreams, sometimes have gotten close to LDing, and have had the weird colours in my eyes when doing WILD, I’m keeping a DJ, its in the forum section actually, and i’m making an effort to ask myself “What was I just doing”, looking around and thinking about what I was doing and where I am. how long do you think it’le take me, or is it random?
Hello Arcadiax, I don’t know if someone answered this already but, I will do it as simple as possible:
Vividness may vary, but yes, you really feel inside there with all possible senses, you can feel the wind, the floor, hear the noises, and see the looks.
I have no idea, if it impacts, it wouldn’t completely avoid you from LDing. Some things you swallow may affect, for instance, for most people, alcohol kills dream recall.
Yes, everything you can think about, but some very impossible things are not easy for beginners.
Some can seem to last longer than real life, but it’s up to your imagination. The dream cycle itself lasts for a limited time.
Each people is different, you can get it randomly without knowing how or master it shortly, it is not predictable.
the answer you want to hear.
heaven, only better.
what most find to be true.
its the most random/surrealistic place… meaning its abstract, meaning find your own way.
the answer you want to hear.
you are god.
what most find to be true.
if you don’t have a natural talent or tons of time spent in ld, you may have difficulty with control ie: making the proper things appear or happen. my advice is to start small.
ditto what tgg said.
the answer you want to hear.
you can manipulate time… just pick how long you’d like to stay lucid.
what most find to be true.
you’ll wake up within a minute of becoming lucid, if not the second you become lucid.
you can read other people experiences and try them but only YOU can know what works for YOU… nobody can make you think like a lucid dreamer and have lucid dreams every time.
I have 2 questions a bit related to this topic. Im just gonna throw them out there, hopefully someone here might have lived this and could answer me.
1- If my lucid dream felt like a year, would i have lived 1 year inside my head? What i mean is would i have seen 365 days go by in my head even when its only been 5minutes in real life?
2- If i was to have a lucid dream that felt like 2 years, would i have all the the memories from those 2 years in my head?
I think this should be the case, but i would like to hear it from more expirienced lucid dreamers. Hopefully this is true, cus i would love to spend atleast 1 year inside a lucid dream.
The topic of time perception in dreams has been researched to a certain degree (I think even Stephen LaBerge did some research here). The result of this research is, that time in a dream (mostly in LDs) is usually perceived nearly identical to being awake.
The most logic (though not proven) theory in my opinion is a combination of FM and Time-Space-Skipping. Your brain (your SC?) can make up FMs in a very short period of time in a dream, so it could be possible it make FMs of a timeline in the past that you actually even didn’t dream of. Also in your dreams you can sometime experience time- and space-skipping (you are in a house and all of a sudden you are in another house, and it could be a weak later). If it is in a consistent timeline (the 2nd house-visit could also be logically a week later), and you add a FM for the time in between, you could think it was a timeline-consistent week you have experienced. And since the human brain can’t really remember the past without “memory-gaps”, it would also make sense in your mind. (Or do you know what you where doing yesterday at 18:29 exactly? )
This theory would suggest that LDs are not fully controlled dreams, but it could be an explanation of the phenomenon. Also, a one-year-dream could be possible in 5 minutes, but you would have a very thin memory of the 365 days.
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it sounds right hehe. Altho it would be awesome to be able to form a year long of solid memories in one nights dream.