Thinking in dreams?

[Loaf]

How is it that we can picture something in our head while dreaming when technically we are in our head? Isn't our dream world basically composed of our thoughts? So how can we think of things without them appearing or happening?

[Baron Samedi]

How is it that we can picture something in our head while dreaming when technically we are in our head? Isn't our dream world basically composed of our thoughts? So how can we think of things without them appearing or happening? Think of it as waking life. Let's say you want to go outside. You can think about going outside, and you can decide to go outside. I didn't think in dreams until I was in my mid-twenties. It's great that you can think in your dreams. Altering your dreams is different. Consider how you created dirt bike tracks, and how those thoughts are different from the way you think in dreams.

[Loaf]

So you are saying its like having different levels of thinking in dreams? So when I think about what my goals are I think about in a different way compared to when I am trying to spawn a banana or whatever?

[AndresLD]

I dont know if this helps, but yesterday morning I had a lucid dream, and realized that I can see no difference between thinking something in my head, or saying something in my dream. I think that when we "think" something in our dreams, we are actually saying it.

[SilverBells]

I had a dream just this morning were I dreamt I was buying something and i actually thought about who i could get the money from. It's the first time i ever remember actually thinking in a non-lucid dream. Weird how you made this thread today!

[TempletonEsquire]

Ever notice in dreams when we do try to create something like a banana that we are very patiently and passively asking for it to appear. We may not know what makes up a banana, how many peels it has, what the shape of the stem will be, what the inside is composed of, how it's skin fades from yellow to a dull green-yellow in some parts, yet when we ask for a banana just by the concept of the word we can make all that information crystallize without prior knowledge. Truly then, where did the banana come from? Your thoughts, your knowledge of bananas, or from thin air?

[Loaf]

I just find it funny that the brain can fill in the gaps for us, quite like you are saying TempletonEsquire. The fact I can walk around wall and find a huge stadium that has just "rendered" in seconds. Weird.

[SilverBells]

I just find it funny that the brain can fill in the gaps for us, quite like you are saying TempletonEsquire. The fact I can walk around wall and find a huge stadium that has just "rendered" in seconds. Weird. I'm amazed by this too. The shear amount of processing power our minds must have, as well as the amount of memory to hold the stadium in your head along with all the details and what-not is absolutely incredible