Thread: Learning real life skills in a dream

Do you think this is possible? To learn real skills in a dream by practicing it?

If someone that did not know how to drive a car, got into a car in a lucid dream, and experimented with the controls of each part of the car, would the knowledge obtained in waking life?

Has anyone ever done this, and done the same thing accurately in real life?

Please express your stories or opinions.

well i skate board in real life and in lucid dreams i like to big bigger sets like 20-30 sets of stairs and do a trick down it or grind the rail when i fall i get up and do it again

Originally Posted by baker3

well i skate board in real life and in lucid dreams i like to big bigger sets like 20-30 sets of stairs and do a trick down it or grind the rail when i fall i get up and do it again

Does skateboarding in your dreams improve your skateboarding skills in real life?

well in the way that in my dreams the more i belive im going to land the trick the more often it happens. so now when im at the park skating i hit the trick with full confidence because last night i was doing it fine and it has helped me land some new tricks. i also in a dream did the 8 set hand rail at the skate park i skate everyday i was to scared in real life but the next day after doing it in the dream i did it first try in real life because i had the feel from doing it last night. i belive if you have the confidence you need in the dream world to make stuff or fly you can do this in real life with logical stuff if you belive you can you will!

Thank you for your input. Does anyone else have anything to share?

One of my goals, once I get better control, is to learn how to juggle in a dream.

Originally Posted by Muggler

Thank you for your input. Does anyone else have anything to share?

I'm pretty sure we've all fallen from huge heights before in dreams. Not lucidly, perhaps, but have you ever noticed that you know exactly how falling would feel? In my opinion that's not 'instinctual', because as much as I'd like to, I don't believe in ancestral memory and the like being built into you. I am almost certain this feeling comes from falling in dreams. While not necessarily a skill (), it is an example of knowing what something is like without (hopefully) having ever done it.

I'm aware none of us really know for sure what it does feel like, but it feels pretty realistic.

Originally Posted by Muggler

If someone that did not know how to drive a car, got into a car in a lucid dream, and experimented with the controls of each part of the car, would the knowledge obtained in waking life?

I imagine that if you knew at least how a car functioned, you would be able to practice driving it and you would get better at it. But if you were clueless, your mind would improvise and it wouldn't be exactly like driving a car.

I believe it will help you. For example say you have never touched a piano in your life but have seen one and heard it. If you play it in a lucid dream then in waking life if you want to learn to play the piano you will learn it faster. I only believe it will help you ONLY in a Lucid Dream.

I definitely believe that it's possible to learn and practice certain social skills in lucid dreams. I was a very shy child, and as young teenager I had a thick "shell" built around me that made it difficult for me to open up to people that I didn't know that well. When I'm lucid dreaming I can practice certain behaviors that I wasn't used to before and through doing so can become comfortable with them. It is now much easier for me to be relaxed in social situations where before I would be tense and nervous. I can even approach and strike up conversations with total strangers now, something that I would never have been able to do before.

This very subject is discussed in great detail in "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" by Stephen LaBerge. He confirms that yes, in fact, this is very possible, because dreaming that you're doing it creates nearly identical neural impulses in the brain and body even when paralyzed during REM sleep. It's been proven for years in studies that imagining what you want to accomplish successfully increases your ability to actually perform it like you imagined. The chapter is also chock full of awesome testimonies from real people who have learned real skills in their dreams, some of them quite shocking and profound.

Seriously, though, the book is a must-read. You'll get SO much more information from reading that book on lucid dreaming in general than you ever will asking people on this forum for answers.

(no offense, just pointing out what I notice)

I learned how to ride a bike like 2 months ago, and 2 or 3 days after learning I had a dream about riding bikes, I think the brain practices a lot of stuff during dreams, including other kind of things like social skills and even music. I've had dreams were I jam with other musicians too.

I believe.