Thread: New to Lucid dreaming, What are the limitations?

The limitations of lucid dreaming all depend on your expectations of limitations, and the limitations of your experience and imagination. What do I mean by that: if your mind firmly believes out of some reason that flying is impossible and that even though you are dreaming it should not be possible, you may not be able to succeed in flying in a dream even though most people can, or you may then need a gadget to fly (for example a superman like cape) because your mind may expect that.

if you have not experience with what the Great Wall of China really looks like, your dream interpretation of it will not be very realistic. However, if you have a great dream imagination, you can just imagine it any way you like, and it can be awesome, and who cares whether it is realistic since this is your dream, and if you think of it as the Great Wall of China then for you in your dreams, it is. By the way, you do not need to be artistic in waking life to have very imaginary vivid dreams, but good memory and good imagination help.

Yes, you feel pain in dreams. But usually I think it won't be as painful as real life pain, so if you loose a battle and get seriously hurt, you might feel a bit of pain, but your mind will not choose to recreate excruciating pain most likely. In fact, it could also not hurt at all. It is a dream, so the rule of "I am hurt, therefore I feel pain." Does not necessarily apply, nor does it necessarily not apply. It's all based on your expectations, and it being your dream it may be even more important what your subconscious and not your conscious expectations are.

just because you become lucid, does not mean your conscious mind will be fully in control. Now we have some dream views members who have been LDing for 30 or 35 years (or maybe shorter) who can fully control their lucid dreams, but for most beginners one starts out with limited control, and one needs to work on improving control. Early on beginners often have only very brief LDs, which may only have limited awareness or very limited control. This is not necessarily the case I think but it is frequent, and how far and how fast you progress in LD depends on each individual dreamer - LD is a skill which has a learning curve.

I think going on a journey in LDs is a great idea, and why not Pokemon. No, there is no rule that you must start at the beginning every time. You can start wherever you expect to start. if you expect to start where you left off last, you are much more likely to go there. If your subconscious mind however expects to start at the beginning every time out of some strange reason, then overcoming that will be a challenge for you.