how real is a dream??

hi, everyone! im new here and got some questions i would like answering, please!
I have tried to have lucid dreams for a while now, about 3 months. and i have come as far as relizing that im dreaming. but not fully. in a dream i realized this and made the reality-check if i could fly, i wasnt able to do that in the dream before becoming lucid, i could just jump about 10 m up in the air. and so i thought "if i can jump more than 10m and start to fly i must be dreaming!
so you see i was still a bit in dream, because i thought i that naturally i could jump 10m. it was a very fasinating experience thou, being able to do whatever one wished.
but the dream didnt feel real at all, i couldnt “see” clearly at all, i wasnt almost able to see where i were. and from what i have read it should almost be as reality. this deam was a while ago, and many of my dreams feel more like thoughts than visual dreams. anyone know of what im talking about and can help me?
thanks for taking your time //Cal

Yeah, I know what you mean. I don’t have that problem as much, but in my dreams, there is never any sound at all that I can remember. I mean, even when people talk, it’s like they communicate with telepathy or something. Also, you know what’s weird? I had a dream almost exactly like you described. I’m serious, I was jumping really high, about ten metres, and then I flew. And like you, I can remember hardley any details about the scenery below me, like, I’m not sure if it was a city or a forest. It sure was fun though :smile:

When one starts to break the threshold of awareness and become lucid in a dream, even for a short while or to a certain level of lucidity, one has to develop the lucid/astral senses of perception since they haven’t really been utilized CONSCIOUSLY as of yet… astral vision is the most noticable of the astral senses that needs to be developed… basically there is a counterpart mode of perception in the astral/dreamland compared to “real life”/this physical realm. Of course, there’s a vast expansion of how each sense is utilized on “the other side”… as well as more ways of perceiving in general. I’d say that whether in “dreamland” or “real life”, we are always in the process of awakening and becoming lucid [%

Yea I remember jumping in a dream, not understanding if the jump was normal. It took me a while to get lucid for some reason.

My ND tend to be quite silent, and yea many DC seem to talk through telepathy. Recently I’ve actually stated talking in my RC and my voice sounds too real…Is it possible that SP can fail to occur to your voice? When I was small my parents sometimes said that I was arguing while sleeping. :eh:

In contrast to real life, and with enough concentration, my LD appear to be a lot more realistic visually.

or we should be anyways, although this viewpoint seems to oppose too many people. If I mentioned meditation, LD, or ‘different views on life’ to most people I know they would think I needed to go to a mental institution or go read the bible…Monroe has a good theory on this one :wink:

I read somewhere once that your face is the least paralyzed when you are in sleep paralysis so maybe that’s why you could talk. If you ever get scared during SP just scrunch up your eyes and you’ll come out of it.