Thread: What is more real?

I remember asking my brother whom is indiferent towards lucid dreaming what is more real, the dog his petting in his DS game, or the one he could play with in a Lucid Dream.

I thought that it was a good question (Yeah me! lol). What do you guys think? What's more real? The things you do or see through a screen or the things you actually do. What could you really brag about? Seeing something rarely seen on TV or seeing something in a Lucid Dream. Could you brag about doing bunji jumping in a lucid dream? The point is not to brag, but what do you think? Can we describe what we go through in our dreams as real? Besides, we ARE in a REAL place when we are in dream. We are in our subconscious. All we are seeing, we REALY our seeing it and what we our doing, we really are doing it, just in our imagination but what is the difference between reality and our imagination. As long as you've exeperienced it and seen it, you've done it, right? On a line of 1 to 10, where would you put vivid/lucid dreaming 10 being as real as reality and 1 being the fakest?

I can't really say with any certainty, as I haven't ever experienced LD, but both strike me as simply being as real as your brain wants it to be. Both are fake, both don't really exist, but on the realism scale my assumption would be that LD dog would take the prize as being more realistic.

That being said, this is a site about LD, there's not going to be a lot of unbiased opinions on this.

Lucid dreaming senses are equal to those of waking senses. The main differences between the dream and reality are that dreams are less consistent, don't abide by physics, and aren't a shared experience. The senses are equally vivid.

I'd say the lucid dream dog.

If you think dreams aren't vivid, then you haven't been fully remembering them!

Are you serious.

dreams are immeasurably more realistic than anything a 2d screen can project -I have a 3d-capable monitor (like IMAX ) but even so dreams are more realistic since you have all your senses and the immersion is still greater.

Its funny that you say it.


One day I told my freinds that I had flown across the sky, above this place were we talked. They said "Oh man, in a plane? did you fly in a plane" I said no.

After a while I explained that it was a lucid dream, one of them frowned upon me and said it wasn't real. I said it was very real too me.

I asked him what is one of the main objective or goal in life? Experience he said, "exactly" I responded.

I can fly in the sky, go from galaxy to galaxy faster than the speed of light, create and destroy, and it would still be real to me, it would still be a real experience.