i was thinking that since if a drastic change in reality would change your dreams (and of course it does such as changing locations) then would a drastic and constant change in dreaming change your perception of reality…? And even so can you somehow become even more lucid in reality?
I was just posting in the thread I created about this. 
As I stated there, ever since I got more in depth about dreams and combined with Tripping (shrooms…which seriously feels IDENTICAL to dreaming), my reality has severely altered. Nothing is the same. I feel emotions from others more, I can grasp wild concepts easily, I see colors and light a LOT more (especially Nature), and Sunlight really brings a sense of peace to me. I have memories that I’m not sure I dreamed or experienced in my waking life. In my waking life, my Ego creates the illusion of Time and the Passing of Time, and ever since all these experiences, it’s a lot easier for me to “turn off” that function of my perception and frequently “en-trance” myself throughout the day. It keeps me grounded to my Spiritual basis and also enhances my life a lot more.
So I’d say yes, I’ve most definately become more Lucid when living. I’ve never felt more alive. Compared to how I used to experience reality, it’s almost too hard to convey the difference. To put it simply, I live now ‘through the eyes of Eternity.’ Or some might want to call it God.
WOW
extreme jealousy…
But yeah ever since i got into Lucid Dreaming i noticed that my outside environment around me seems more cleqar and pristine?.. Hard to explain. And i as well can also grasp hard concepts and abstract thinking which i never used to do. maybe its a sign of maturity or what, who knows?
I havnt had those memories that you said you are having though. thats kind of odd.
It’s the strangest feeling really, when dreaming memories meld with physical memories. I have memories from my Childhood that I’m not even sure are from this life. I still to this day remember my oldest “memory”, where I am about 10 years old, running through some Nursery (plants) with florescent-like lights under a blue tarp, holding hands with a girl. It’s so brief, and yet, I know for a fact I was too young to even know of such things as Romance or Girls even. It was either a Dream or a Past life memory, but I know it wasn’t a physical one.
And yes, I think its a sign of Maturity, but also Soul Maturity and your willingness to accept Paradox and Higher Truths, which is ultimate our Goal in this life.
maybe it was both physical and dream memory, our minds are more pure as children but even then distracted and a real clear memory just doesnt seem possible, thats why i wish to become as lucid in reality as i can in a dream, but is there really such a purity…?
haha i wish i could become as lucid in a dream as i am in reality. thats my biggest problem right now. I havnt had anything but very low level LD’s for months now…
reality is too distracting, if you were locked in a cell (like solitary confinement in prison) for the rest of your life with a bed, a LD book, and a pen and paper, and food and toilet and shower, with no contact with the outside world, you’d probably become an expert LDer with no troubles at all and pure ease, if you didnt have to worry about reality, all you would and could care about is dreaming…right? but it would be great (if you didnt go insane that is…)
I’ve actually thought of something similar to that. Like say i went to prison for many years or even a life sentence, i would become an LD expert because of much less distractions and so much free-time. It would be a blessing and a curse
i just want to let go of reality entirely to totally purify my brain and cleans it of wrong thoughts and certain instincts of emotion that arent neccisary…i really wanna bring the powers of the my imagination in the dream world to reality for possibilities…
Lol, have you looked into prison?
when I “meditate” often times really old childhood memories pop up out of nowhere, seemingly completely irrelevant to what i was thinking about, the most insigificant things like playing a board game or something…
it’s odd.
i also have a memory of actually, being a baby, and being fed, but i don’t know if it’s real or not, because it’s like from me seeing myself from the third person, or it might be a memory of my brother, but… it’s weird, because it seems like it’s of me… i don’t know.
then i remember being a baby and being in a bathub, just one little clip, and i’ve had it since childhood and somehow I “knew” it was from when i was a baby.
dream memories sometimes mesh with real memories for me too but i cannot for the life of me think of an example, they just go right back into the unconscious if i don’t think and speculate about them.
whenever i meditate for like 15 mins, i actually feel my body disappear and my mind wonder without thought, its like a really intense buzz cause before i reach that state i feel my body shrink smaller and smaller until i dont have one anymore, but it doesnt seem like thats the case for other people when they meditate…thoughts anyone?
catapleo this happens a lot in meditation, it usually starts for me with the limbs being disconnected from your ‘feeling’, then gradually all is left is your consciousness. I guess this is one of the more pleasant ‘side effects’ of meditation caused by lowering your brainwaves to alpha/theta.
alright thanks, i was just wondering if that was suppose happen but it is rather awesome, but unlike holy reality no memories pop up for me, but it probably varies from person to person…