Thread: Making Your Dream World Into A Prison

In the real world, people learn their boundaries two ways, by exploring and learning about them from other people. We learn how reality is a set plane of existence that follows rules and regulations, and that people are born into certain rules and regulations that they have to follow or face consequences. The bottom line is in the real world we learn that you just can't do certain things. And it can be argued whether this is really true to or not, but people who think it is can drag this belief into the dream world and muck their experiences up the more experience they gain.

I was sort of doing this for a while. See, sometimes I would try to do something, and it just wouldn't work. Sometimes I woud close my eyes and try it until it did, but sometimes I just accepted that it was something you can't do in the dream world. Keep in mind whether you realize it or not the make up of your dream world is your own fault. You create it unconsciously, it's the instantaneious representation of a world your brain makes without you opening your eyes. You control it, lucid or not, it's just that people aren't aware they have control until they're aware it's a dream. So, when finding oujt it's a dream, I almost accidentally took into account some non-existant limitations, and because I believed them, they remained true. In short, jsut by being an experienced lucid dreamer I lost some of my control of my dream world. I had to remember that the results of experiments in the dream world are usually random, and that everything contrinues to vary from dream to dream or just moment to moment.

yes, I think that some people forget that sort of thing when they get excited and wrapped up in something neat and fun like lucid dreaming.

the mistake, I think, is to forget that the outer world works by certain rules (ie: gravity. don't break that rule&#33 and conventions (ie: if you're not nice to people, they tend to lash out at you).

the inner world is different from the outer world. the two realities only intersect when you are awake and interacting with the outer world.

The things both of you say are very true, losing control can happen because of lucidity, but once you overcome them, it kind of makes you feel good [maybe this is just me] because it's like overcoming what everyone considered impossible, even if it's only in our mental world, it's still a great feeling. I wonder if this how it felt for those who discovered life changing discoveries. But, since to lucid dream we abandon the real world's rules, we do need to remember them while dreaming for if you forget in one place, you might forget in another [since the dream world is closer to our subconscious self, if we made it a habit to be that way in a replica of reality, we might find ourselves putting in more effort to follow life's rules in the real world, it's totally opinion though so don't mind me]