Thread: how real does a lucid dream feel?

so, could one conclude that to increase realism/level of conciousness, you have to increase the 5 sensory input 'channels', through provocative actions such as touching grass, tasting food etc.

when you achieve lucidity, is there a routine you do involving the 5 senses, to increase vividness/realism/conciousness?

My lucid dreams have been convincing before, but I dunno, they are usually quite blurry, even if I have a good grip on the situation. The most vivid one that I had was one in which I shot a firework into the woods and all of the trees lit up like Christmas trees. Those were the most brilliant colors that I had ever seen.

I guess that the reason that my lucid dreams don't seem very vivid is that I am lazy and don't practice dream recall, nor do I do many WBTBs. Instead, I use those hazy morning dreams.

Sometimes, on the rare occasion that i actually have lucid, i am totally surprised by how real it feels. I remember one of them actuallty feeling my pants rub against my legs like they do in real life, which just shows how detailed they can be. But many times, a lot of the details about my environment are at best sketchy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khAQ6KJ1GFs

that first picture it shows with the grass and sky.... that's how it looks, except the grass glows like it's super HD life.

Originally Posted by Elkfazer

Not sure if this helps, but I tried explaining to my best friend what a low,high, and fading LD looked like to give him some idea of the awesome power of the mind. So I just did a few tweaks to a photo I found on the net and showed them to him. Here they are, not sure if it's what everyone sees, but close to mine. Low first, then Full then Fading LD

Thanks for the pictures, answered my question perfectly.

If I say it feels mind-blowing and looks amazing, would you beleive me?

First WILD I managed to pull off, I jumped off my balcony (which I wanted to do ever since I moved to this place), and landed in the rain. The feeling of the rain on my skin and the wind on my face, the smell of fresh rain etc... kinda convinced me that a brain is even more awesome than it already is

Let's put it this way: I was camping once. When I got up in the middle of the night to go pee outside I couldn't tell it was a lucid dream until I woke up after teleporting back to my bed. It took me 5 minutes to figure out what happened.

Originally Posted by pond weed

how real does a lucid dream feel, compared to real life. i find my regular dreams very detached, not real, not vivid.?

For me the 'reality feel' varies but when you are really in the LD zone they are as real as me typing this out to you now. The walls have texture you can feel, the trees move with the wind. There is depth of field and color. I have found myself , more then once, wondering if I had died. This morbid thought, BTW, has a tendency to pull you right out of an LD.

How does a lucid dream even feel?

lol just so you guys know this is an old thread......... if you wanted you could have started a new one this is from back in 09 its 11 now so yeah unless there no rule on this forum against bumping old as threads then your all good.

but yeah wow i better try some wild's cause my dream one was soooo fuzzy and i was bearly lucid but this restored my faith

It's only against the rules if you can't add anything contributive, relevant, or new to the discussion. It seems that, in this case, modern-day posters have stories to tell their ancestors: tales from the future! They seem to have contributed positively to the discussion, so I'd probably say this should pass [the test of time, "lol!"].

haha alrighty thanks for that info
and thanks also for such a quick response

No problem!

Welcome to DreamViews, by the way! Best of luck to you in lucid dreaming!

for me most dreams are slightly hazy. long ones can have very vivid moments. but lucids are the clearest and realest of them all for me. i learnt how to stabalise accidentally because i was so awestruck at what was happening i just had to touch and explore everything in an attempt to find a part of it that was different to real life but never found any.

there is also another level of dreaming which seems realer than reality. i can only define this by the definition of the images i suppose. makes reality look like some 8 bit computer game. one explanation i have for this is that you are no longer limited to looking through 2 eyes and focussing all your visual attention on one object. when you are seeing with the minds eye you can look at more than one thing at once and take in the information that you couldnt normally. this makes everything in the dream seem to have far more detail and thus even realer than imaginable

I think a big part of the "realism" feeling of lucid dreams comes from the experience of it. Regular dreams have a more passive nature, and a lot are simply remembered upon waking, that's it. In a lucid dream the experience is different. It's like being there at the time the dream happens. You live it consciously, and thus the experience seems much more like real life. "It happened to me" rather than "I dreamt it".

i find in most my dreams that i have the sence of touch intack, even when not lucid, but everything is more vibrant in my lucid ovi