Thread: Lucid dreaming is more complex than it looks/sounds (long post)

Thought I'd share my findings about dreams and lucid dreams so if anyone knows more than I do or has a clearer explanation please jump in... I'm in no way trying to debunk lucid dreaming just my take on it. K....my dreams are made up of 2 parts which are a base and a variable(can be anything under the sun). The base is a constant, it's always from reality as in past experience like the location or people I knew. Then the variables are the events that take place around the base. They are non reality and are mostly random and very possibly came from more abstract sources like fears or desires and ideas. So far I am able to control the base I want to a certain extent like I can 'fix' the dream to be in my flat which can be anywhere from within the unit to outside the block but still within the area of target. But I can't control the variable part which is random and comes from non-reality. I only have access to reality which is the base....

Then there is another problem of lucidity with all this...where does the idea of checking if I'm dreaming comes from? Reality? as most people would expect. My mind is always on the idea of lucid dreaming in waking time BUT it's rarely so in the dream. My theory is this...the idea of lucid dreaming is just an idea. So when it's an idea what is it?.....A Variable! What? A variable?...How can that be..I do those checks and what not in reality that makes it real right? Not so....because the checks that we do are a reality action that is LINKED to lucid dreaming BUT NOT lucid dreaming itself. So most likely I'd get a dream that was based on either my bedroom or other things that were real or even the watch that I used EXCEPT doing checks or for that matter the idea that I may be dreaming.

Then there are the dreamsigns which are supposed to work. But do they? Not always. Dreamsigns work by pattern recognition or better put....memory triggering. But memory in dreams are dependant on how tired the person is. The more tired the more difficult it is for the dreamsign to trigger the memory and most likely the dreamer acknowleges the dreamsign but walks away.

IMJ