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      Dream Control Limitations

      Are there any limits to what you can do in a dream regardless of how good your level of control is? If so what are they?

      For me the only limitations I can think of off the top of my head are things like my brain can only process so much information at one time before being overloaded. For example I can split myself into multiple bodies which are each capable of perceiving (hearing, tasting, feeling, seeing, ect) the dream world around them separately. I can make more and more of these splits and I can work on increasing the number of splits I can maintain at one time yet it seems like my brain can only process so much at one time and eventually after splitting myself so much I reach a point where things will start to become fuzzy and lose detail.

      Another thing which I can't really do in dreams involves omniscience:
      inherent omniscience - the ability to know anything that one chooses to know and can be known.
      total omniscience - actually knowing everything that can be known

      Even though in my dreams it is possible for me to have omnipresence and near omnipotence.. omniscience seems impossible for me to obtain.

      If you can think of any tasks which would be completely impossible(or can explain how these limitations can be overcome) let me know.
      1. Having supreme knowledge about everything. You may be able to delude yourself into thinking that you know every thing but it is possible to actually know everything?
      2. Focusing on an infinite number of things at the same time. You can focus on many things at the same time but it seems that EVENTUALLY at some point you will reach a limit to how many things you can keep your focus on simultaneously.
      3. Remaining in a lucid dream forever. I have had dreams which have seemed to last for months while only a single night passed in the real world. While this could possibly be extended to years using my dream extending techniques I don't see how it would be possible to remain in the dream world indefinitely.
      Last edited by Alter; 12-18-2010 at 09:24 PM.

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