so lucid dreams are excatly like real life?

ive read a lot about lucid dreaming recently but i just need some clairfication on what they’re like. do lucid dreams feel excatly like real life? do all your senses work in them?

Well it depends on the level of awareness; the higher the awareness the higher your senses are gonna be. Because you are using all the senses the dream’s gonna quite real or even more real than waking life.

I’ve read that when you wake up your mind while having a dream,the mind’s mechanism compesates your body by making all your actions and surroundings real so you don’t have to move your real body.

Edit: Most of my lds have been blurry and not that vivid but there’s a few that have left me shocked; but i haven’t had a real vivid ld yet. :sad:

I had one that was realy vivid. All 5 of my sences acted like they were in overdrive. Everything seemed like it was “more real” than waking life.

They do indeed in my experience…

Tonight I had a nd which I could taste

In LD’s, I find that all my sense work. And they all work well.

There are some blurry, confusing LD’s - those are the low level ones.
And there are vivid, clear LD’s - high level ones.

So yes, LD’s can be just like RL. But with flying pigs and purple skies.

I have had lucid dreams that felt better than real life. All my sensations where actually magnified. They all seem to vary. I also get those low level dreams where you have poor control and senses are foggy. I don’t know if these are just low level dreams or non REM dreams. Anyway expect to experience both and everything in-between.

i have another question too which i may as well just keep in thise thread. is there a technique to become lucid during a dream that doesnt involve getting at least 5 hours of sleep and then waking up? like for instance, can you try the wild way before getting 5 hours of sleep first and still have a lucid dream?

You could still have the ld that way, but that’d be the hard way.

Yes you can. You can do WILD at bedtime in fact. You will have to be patient with it, but with practice you can do it. However, if you are having success right now by sleeping for 5 hours first then I would stick with that until you master it, then try at bed time.

Another option is to try to WILD by napping during the day.

WILDs are VERY difficult if you haven’t had the previous hours of sleep. It takes a lot of practice, and it’s virtually impossible for an inexperienced dreamer. Not that it isn’t worth learning, but if you’ve just started out it’s better to keep with more easily learned methods.
I’d recommend DILD–Dream Induced Lucid Dream. That’s the normal dream where you Reality Check or just realize spontaneously that you’re dreaming and become lucid. They’re the most common, since no induction method is necessary, and all that’s required is to do Reality Checks frequently throughout the day. Five a day or more is good, but if you really want results, then check at least a time or two every hour. If you have trouble remembering, just use an alarm on your wristwatch. The downside is that since it’s not specifically induced, you have little control over WHEN you’ll have one, it just insures that you’ll have more overall.

thanks to all. all my unanswered questions are answered now.

I had a LD that was quite vivid, the vividest in fact. That night i had a strong will indirectly.

I feel that they are more real than real life.

I’ve had more or less Lucide dreams every 3rd night or something the last 6 or 7 weeks and this of course makes me really happy.
Lucide dreams feels just like real life except some small things are missing in some of the dreams.
One thing that I’ve noted in the dreams are that I don’t hear ambient sounds such as: the wind blowing and barfing dogs in the background. :slight_smile:

Colors, and emotions from looking at things, are often totally overdriven too; I can watch at a few flowers in a dream and think they’re just mind blowing, in RL I wouldn’t put much effort in looking at them.

LD’s are RL * 2 for me!

Can someone post, why high ld’s seem like more real than waking life?

In a highly realistic LD your mind is in complete and direct control of your body. This leads to sensory perceptions that are AMAZINGLY detailed, more so than real life, as you were saying. The reason is most likely the ‘surreal’ sort of effect caused by the separation of cause and effect in the dream.
Because you are dreaming, the mind can just DO things. No excuses. Hence there can be awesome detail in something that wouldn’t possess such complexity IRL.

Simply put, the mind doesn’t have to process real information gathered from the surroundings, but can come up with its own description–and sometimes it gets a little bored with the same old, same old routine and decides to jazz things up a bit. :wink: