Thread: Permanent Lucid Dreaming?

Uh, hi - woah, been a while since I was last on here.

Anyway, I have a question: is it possible for someone to have nothing but lucid dreams? It's just it seems like every time I dream I'm aware I'm dreaming and it can be quite exhausting. I think it's probably because I'm also a very light sleeper so my tired brain reaches a point where it just doesn't care much about noise anymore and instead starts to dream but any noises stop me from going completely under you know?

Well, anyway, I was just wondering if anyone else has similar experiences.

Some people have this, but most are people that just pass through and don't stay.

How aware are you in these dreams? I am not a permanent LDer, but I am working towards that, and I can lose lucidity if I want to with dream control. If you ever want a break, that is an option.

Lucid dreaming only means knowing you're dreaming. I think you're confusing controllable dreams with lucid ones.

But thanks though - I'll keep you posted.

Originally Posted by Mireille

Lucid dreaming only means knowing you're dreaming. I think you're confusing controllable dreams with lucid ones.

But thanks though - I'll keep you posted.

That is why I didn't say that they aren't lucid, I said that they were low levels of lucidity (awareness), I probably should have used that word.

I'm very aware that it's a dream I'm in - but some of the times I cannot control what happens in it. For the most part, the only times I can control it are when I'm going to be hurt in the dream - then it's kind of like I have an out of body experience in the dream and can control what happens (e.g. rewinding the dream, changing the things about it etc.)

Originally Posted by Mireille

I'm very aware that it's a dream I'm in - but some of the times I cannot control what happens in it. For the most part, the only times I can control it are when I'm going to be hurt in the dream - then it's kind of like I have an out of body experience in the dream and can control what happens (e.g. rewinding the dream, changing the things about it etc.)

Gotcha. Well let me know if you would like help with dream control. Sounds like a very low level of lucidity in all dreams.

Huh? Oh, right. Sorry. I'm having trouble sleeping lately so my concentration isn't that good at the moment.

I do think it is fair to assign the term low or high lucidity. True, knowing it is a dream means lucid, in the strictest definition. However, my general state is like yours, but I do not really consider it being lucid. I use the term semi-lucid, to mean part of me realizes I am observing dreams, but other than that it is just a normal dream. I do not have much waking awareness at that time, just a general back ground thought of, "your dreaming, ignore it."

For me to really think of it as a lucid dream instead of semi-lucid, I want some daytime awareness that draws me into the scene, rather than just casually putting up with the brain noise.

Originally Posted by Mireille

is it possible for someone to have nothing but lucid dreams? It's just it seems like every time I dream I'm aware I'm dreaming and it can be quite exhausting. I think it's probably because I'm also a very light sleeper so my tired brain reaches a point where it just doesn't care much about noise anymore and instead starts to dream but any noises stop me from going completely under you know?

Well, anyway, I was just wondering if anyone else has similar experiences.

Yeah that sounds familiar to me, Mireille; I'm also a light sleeper, and have had many experiences -- and suspicions, and tired brain -- similar to what you describe... so maybe you're not alone, and it is possible to be at least slightly lucid all night long. The "condition" came about with me, I think, because of the many years I've been actively LD'ing and practicing self-awareness -- it's become sort of second nature, day and night.

Sivason started a thread that touches on this that you might find interesting, called Re-exploring the World of Non-Lucid Dreaming; you might want to check it out.

I can't claim to have this high of lucidity in lucid dreams, but the line between lucid and non lucid seems to be more and more blurred as I rise through lucidity.

Right now if I think back on my dreams I can easily say "I knew I was dreaming", but unless I act on this idea, then I don't count it as lucid. So my goal isn't really just to realize I am dreaming, but to stop and think about what this means. Think about goals. Think about things in the current area that the dream isn't using so that I can have fun with awesome things everywhere. I think that in the recesses of our mind, we all know that we are dreaming, we just don't have enough awareness to bring that out. Just like you always know if you are a human, it is one of those things that you know, but it rarely changes how you act.

Sageous, been thinking a lot about your thread, gonna comment on that soon.