Originally posted by Lucid_im_home
I heard there are limits to what you can do in the dream world, for instance you can't turn off a light, or you can't read a book, or tell the time consistantly. Is there any truth in this and if there is truth, are there any other limits.


Also, I stopped recording my dreams a while back and now I cannot remember any of them, is there a faster way to get them back and start remembering them then training myself all over again?


Also, I noticed that some ppl here have a rating of ,like lucid master, ect.. how do you get that?

Peace
They say everything is both a blessing and a curse. You think it is not a good thing that Dreaming should have limits. But it is. If Dreams have no limits, it means they are unreal -- that they have no substance, no connection, no truth. Having Limits shows that they are connected, and that subjectivity is ultimately objective.

Yes, some of the people here brag about having broken through all limits. But notice they do not go into very much detail. They are right about having broken things. The only way they were able to destroy the limits of Dreaming was by breaking the connection to the Higher Mind, by cutting themselves off from the Collective Consciousness. That is why they cannot go into much detail. Their dreams have become vapid -- like bad animation. You know how they say that we only use 10% of our Brains, but that our subconscious takes up the other 90%. Well, when somebody has assaulted their Dreaming mind with control attack after attack, and finally has destroyed the Dreaming Mind's ability to maintain any integrity of Dream Content, then what in effect happens is that the 90% of the brain simply goes off and minds its own business. These Dreamers who have Total Control can be compared to masterbaters. Yes, they have complete control. But not over very much.

Dreaming is only important if the Connection to a Higher Realm is maintained. Lucidity is intended only as a remedial practice -- if the Dreaming Self is stuck at some lower level, then Lucidity can bring some Waking Conscious insight in to bear upon whatever the problem is. But Lucidity is a tool like Fire is a tool, or a weapon -- a means to destroy in extreme what can be helped only by intelligent measure.

The problem of Over Control follows throughout Lucid Culture. Original Anthropological research into Dreaming Cultures had hypothesized Control, but ran off before their research was complete. If they had stayed in the Field, they would have found that over-control is a pathology, a dysfunction. But Lucid Culture had formed around the premise of Total Control. The Delusions of Lucifer. Lucid Culture needs to forget the foolishness of its youth and go back to research and discover that the value of Dreaming recides in fostering its Integrity, and not by destroying it with a total Control that despises a Higher Wisdom for the sake of parlor tricks -- pulling dream rabbits out of dream hats for the sake of bragging about it.