Thread: Can LDing effect your life?

Originally posted by sitboy
This is my question. can I do something in my LD and have the effects stay. Like in my LD can I study for a test and know the stuff when I wake up? Can I learn to treat a diesses and then now it when I wake up. i kwon that some inventions like the sewing mechen came to people in dreams,but what about in LD.

That is a very good question Sitboy. First off Lucid dreaming is your key to your subconcious. So you know that regular dreams can produce spectacular things. Well if you use your Lucidity wisely, you can learn from each of your dreams because you are that much closer to communicating with your subconcious. Your mingling with it.
However, it does take practice. It takes even more pratice and dedication to get to a level of Lucidity where your dream seen can be stable enough to study things at a complex level. But it is possible.
As far as remebering things I myself find LD's easier to remember than a regular dream.

Originally posted by Howetzer

As far as remebering things I myself find LD's easier to remember than a regular dream.

I agree with you on that one. I feel that LD's are alot easier to remember than normal dreams.

I believe that it is possible to study things while LD'ing, but I think it requires alot of practice. Also, I've been having trouble reading in dreams, so I'm not sure how to study But yeah, practice and you might find a solution.

I do beleive they tried to show this with an experiment. They had some basketball students that were also into LD practice 3 point shots in their dreams and they had a control group that practiced physically. I think they both showed the same amount of preformance increase.

Now as for my own experience I can say without a doubt you can learn and grow in LD's I would not be the person I am were it not for my dreams and all that I have experienced in them. As for dying, I have died in dream but I am still here , it was an odd experience, not unpleasant though.

Practicing things in LDs can create muscle memory (the kind of memory that assists when skiing, fighting, etc. Literally, it's memory devoted to a repeated muscle movement or movements). For example, a martial artists (or an Average Joe) can LD a fight or sparring match, and practice blocks and attacks in the dream. After waking up, it's just as if he/she'd really been fighting while he/she was asleep. The blocking motions and attacking motions are commited to memory, so in a real fight, they will be accessable for use. Same goes with sports, but the catch is, most of the time you have to try the sport in real life before you can dream it, since your mind needs an experience to base the dream off of. Otherwise the dream could be too unrealistic, and the memory won't help.

Not an expert opinion here, but just my $.02.

Seems to me that learning to overcome fears, or improve physical skills by mentally focusing and eliminating bad habits is entirely possible. But I can't see how you could learn new factual information in a dream (like studying for a test), unless you had already absorbed the information in RL and had it floating around in your head somewhere. I'd be worried that if I was reading about something in a dream, that my brain would just be making up whatever it wanted, and that it would not necessarily be the correct info.

Supposedly we store all of the information that we aquire over a life time most of it gets deposited in memory that we do not have access to so if you did read it or hear it in class it should be in the quagmire of experiences in yer memory someplace. So in dream you could call it forth and study it. As for new factual info.. thats tricky I wouldent be surprised it it was possible but it is probably not something that occurs often.

I actuly think that this is how people get addicted to drugs(and get really good at sports and school ect). I came to this site as a heavy pot smoker a while back, and as soon as I started my dream journal I found that every night I would be smoking pot in friends houses, at school, and anywhere in my dreams. Since then I have stopped smoking and these dreams have cut back more and more the longer it has been. It almost makes me think we might get more "practice" doing things in dreams than in real.

Originally posted by What Is Real?
I actuly think that this is how people get addicted to drugs(and get really good at sports and school ect). *I came to this site as a heavy pot smoker a while back, and as soon as I started my dream journal I found that every night I would be smoking pot in friends houses, at school, and anywhere in my dreams. *Since then I have stopped smoking and these dreams have cut back more and more the longer it has been. *It almost makes me think we might get more \"practice\" doing things in dreams than in real.

I don't think I follow you. How would addiction come about?
What dreams have cut back?

well since the repeated action of smoking in the dream occured, you carry that back to real life. As I quit smoking the smoking dreams dwindled to the point where I dont have them very often anymore.

Originally posted by What Is Real?
well since the repeated action of smoking in the dream occured, you carry that back to real life. *As I quit smoking the smoking dreams dwindled to the point where I dont have them very often anymore.

I got ya.

Do you think this could work to the complete oppostite effect? Say if you were to use drugs in your dreams?

This would be a good point to bring up in the morality issue.

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well since the repeated action of smoking in the dream occured, you carry that back to real life. As I quit smoking the smoking dreams dwindled to the point where I dont have them very often anymore.

I got ya.

Do you think this could work to the complete oppostite effect? Say if you were to use drugs in your dreams?

This would be a good point to bring up in the morality issue.[/b]

Well, my theory, is that we live these two lifes, one is the "real" life that we return to upon waking and the other one is where we go when we are sleeping. Its like playing chess against yourself... even if you try and ignore that happened in a dream, it is still in your mind. Thus both sides of reality are affected by the other side. Now our "real" life may* have more of a say in things (like playing chess against yourself but one side is "you" and the other is "some one else") Anyway, this is just how i think dreams reflect one another, but then again this world is so crazy and wierd, who can even tell you wich way is REALY up or down?

Originally posted by sitboy
Like in my LD can I study for a test and know the stuff when I wake up?

I believe that you would not be able to do that, as in your dreams it is what you know, so you could unearth forgotten things and teach them again, but not learn totally new things as they would not be in your mind.

First post in a while, guys