When you have LD do you "look" with your physical

Quest for Lucidity
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Hi.

When you have LD do you “look” with your physical eyes in picture/movie, or you “look” with your “mind eyes”?
And what is better?

And are you aware of your physical body in LD?
Can you feel, hear, etc.

Is it like real life or … ???

Bye.

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Hey…

I’m not sure i understand your first question… :neutral:
I mean, in an LD you aren’t looking with your real eyes since your physical body is asleep. Everything is a creation of the subconscious so you might say that you’re looking with your “mind eyes”, yes… :smile:

It depends on the lucidity level but generaly you ARE aware that your physical body is actually lying in your bed. Though you can smell touch or hear anything EXACTLY like in real life… :content:

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Most of the time I look with the dream version of my physical eyes. And I have all my other senses too. So it’s not real life, but it’s like real life :smile:

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Yeah , It`s real life in a dream .

You use you`re “eyes”

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well, for me there are 3 types of dreams,
wake dreams: imagine your dream and have full controll about every aspects
advantages: it can be done anny time,(tho stay away from bright light, you won’t see your dream then cos the red glow of light penetrating your eyelids will be too bright for you to be able to see with your minds eye)
you will allways have full controll
disadvantages: you can get unfocussed and have to repeat one part over and over again
you can’t see brightly(only a sub-vision)
you can’t hear feel smell or taste
(allso, i do not count a waking dream as an LD)
normal dream(ND)
you have a dream, you are asleep, but not in controll
advantages(over waking dream):
you can hear, feel, taste and smell(not allways)
you can see clear(er)
disadvantages:
might be unnoticed so you thing you haven’t dreamt
can be verry dark
can only be done when you’re asleep
lucid dream (LD):
you are in controll
advantages:
verry vivid(or able to make more vivid)
you allways notice when you’re lucid
disadvantages:
only when you’re asleep
only with (much) training

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Hi niksa,

I have trouble staying in my LD’s because I start to feel my real eyes and it distracts me too much. I’m pretty sure the first few times this happened it was my real eyes and I could sense the daylight as well. It still happens a lot but since then it could be my mind tricking me.

I would say it’s much better when you can look with your minds eyes. Being too aware of things outside your dream eg. physical body make it really hard to concentrate.

The lighter your sleeping during an LD, the more you will sense from your real surroundings

I don’t think LD’s are very like RL as you can have so much freedom in them and your mind is very focused on the present. It has to be to keep the dream stable.