Just Wondering ...

Two questions here.

I’ve been an avid lucid dreamer in my childhood, preteens, teens, and adolescence. I suppose, as some of us age, the occurrence of lucid dreaming becomes less and less if one has no real emphasis on dream recall.

So, I’m writing down dreams on to a computer, which is a practise that I began last night. Anyway, I had this extensive dream which I vividly recalled, and after it ended I typed it out … only to wake up again and realize, “Gee, I was dreaming that part too!”

Ever had this happen?

Another question I have is this; on a lucid dreaming web site, the author claimed that we are limited by what we imagine during a lucid dream. That-- loosely quoted --“most lucid dreams are achieved if one wants to practise a skill, or learn from experiences. That we can’t just have what we want.”

It was my understanding that a lucid dream can be whatever, with whoever, whenever! It’s not to say I’m greedy, but hell, by time I’m 75 years of age, I’d have spent 25 years of my life sleeping.

I also apologize if these questions have been asked before.

As for the dream within a dream thing, I just had one of those a couple nights ago. In my dream I was sort of pre-lucid and striving to hang on to the dream and then “woke up” but was really in another dream. I remembered the dream I had had, and was mad at myself for losing it. I did things in this dream for a while and then actually woke up after a while, a bit confused. The dream-within-a-dream felt completely real, same feelings as losing a pre-lucid and everything.

Hi Jayaa ! Welcome to the forum ! :smile:

Don’t worry if your questions have been asked before : that’s very common, indeed !
About your “false awakening”, yes, it happens very often and one of these most recurrent FA’s are when we dream we are writing down our dreams.
And about the LD possibilities : in my opinion, LD’s are limited by the beliefs of the dreamer. I mean that the beliefs you have about dreams, about what dreams are and about what can be done in a dream, induce the “reality”, the “physical laws” of your dreams.
For instance, Ouspensky wrote that you can’t pronounce your own name in a dream. Of course, he couldn’t and all those who believed Ouspensky couldn’t pronounce their name in a dream too… until someone found it wasn’t difficult at all !
A lot of dreamers managed to do incredible things in their LD’s, like changing themselves in fire, water, air, changing their size, moving into the ground, etc. So lucid dreams are only limited by the limits you assign to them.

Good luck in your LD quest ! :grin:

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You guys are way too fun! Thanks for the warm welcome, and the answered questions.

If I can, I sort of want to poke around False Awakenings a little more.

They say dreams happen for a reason, and if you’re a believer in that statement, please reply! What do you think false awakenings represent? Do false awakenings happen during the phase we normally dream? Or, do our brains flux in its frequencies since it’s difficult to truly realize your dreaming? This statement meaning that we’re able to tell the difference of a dream either “in-dream”, or after we wake up; but false awakenings seem way too real.

I’ve always been pestered by false awakenings, not only because they are bothersome, but because they seem a little more different than lucid dreams, and dreams in general.

I personally think FA’s are ways to wake you up, without you actually waking up. Like, if you were having a nightmare, you’re sub-C will won’t to wake you up, but at the same time, it doesn’t want you losing sleep - so it gives you FA.
The same can be applied to why we have FA’s after LD’s.

Heh, sorry. Just my view :wink:.

I personally find taking a RC everytime I have an FA to be a good idea. That way they aren’t annoying, and you get an extra LD :smile:.