“I am dreaming, I know that I am dreaming, this is as real as reality.”
There are arguments made by certain people that I don’t think anyone on here agrees with, that we all know to be wrong [that i can talk to dream characters about how I’m in my bed proves so], that it is not possible to BE lucid, only to think that you are lucid.
Now, there was a time when I was very adamant about lucid dreaming all the time as much as I could, and I’d have them many times a night,
now, I’ve kind of lost interest. And when I do have a lucid dream, what I notice is, obviously, I have a lucid dream, and am lucid, and am doing things, and I can do whatever I want to do.
What puzzles me is the notion of “doing” something.
It’s like walking on a treadmill, saying, oh yes, I can walk on a treadmill. So you do that. Or then you say, well, I will get off the treadmill, so I will do that. Or you say, so, I will levitate, so you do that…
but what gets a lot of people is Clarity, they will say, “Was this a lucid dream? I did things like flying and making objects levitate, but it didn’t seem like I knew I was dreaming.”
so, it seems like clarity is the most important aspect of reality, both waking and dreaming, and sleeping
with clarity a lucid dream is truly something that you KNOW, is a dream, and can seem to last forever, and can seem to be truly rich and refreshing,
Clarity, Quality,
exceptional Quality of Clarity
these dreams, the WOW I AM DREAMING
are so much more interesting than “I am dreaming, time to do what I always do.”
and so what I wonder is, where do all the ideas for what we want to do while lucid come from?
Does anyone sit and get excited, coming up with tons of possibilities? I’d like to be like that. Do others just shrug and say “Well I’ll be lucid when I am.” and not think on it at all?
Like, I got an idea one time, to walk up a wall I had to make it so that the wall was now the ground, and the ground was vertical
So I imagined a camera was looking at me, and the camera was the axis / orientation of reality, and that if I took the camera and rotated it with my mind, I would rotate reality while still standing, and gravity would now be horizontal/perpendicular to how it was, this caused me to “fall” onto what was then a wall, which was now then, underneath my feet, pulling me
and when I got to the “top” of the building I moved the camera back normal, and now things were as they were
now this one of the most clever creative things I’ve ever done, and I just sat there and came up with it
but now I ask and ponder and probe, WHERE do these fresh insights come from?