Okay so, that title is a little click-baity I'll admit, as it makes it seem like I'm trying to bring dream objects out into the real world, which for obvious reasons isn't my goal since I firmly believe the dream world is just imaginary.

So what do I mean, what have I been trying to do? Well if you take a look at the guide linked in my signature you'll see I've been playing with a method that allows me to enter a dream before my body is paralysed - causing me to feel and control both my real body and dream body simultaneously briefly until sleep paralysis occurs and I can only feel myself in a dream.

So it got me wondering, if I can be in a dream while still feeling my real body - can I do the reverse, and return to my body while still feeling my dream body? I'm not sure what, if any, use there would be to this, but I'm the kind of person who just likes to experiment for the sake of it - so why not?

Last night I decided to experiment with this. My method: The moment I was lucid in a dream, I decided to pick up an object and begin interacting with it. In this case it was a phone I found on the floor in my dream. I decided at this point to wake myself up while interacting with it. My idea was, if I kept interacting with the phone constantly my brain would still hold on to those sensations even after I awoke.

So I open my eyes in bed, but I continue interacting with the phone. It worked, I could still feel the phone in my hand, the texture of the buttons. What was interesting too was I could like move my arm up in front of my face, but my real arm didn't move and just stayed loosely at my side. I played around with the buttons on the phone some more, and I was able to get it to make some noise.

Here's where it gets weird. So I tried to move my other arm, and I was expecting that arm to keep moving in the dream.. but that arm moved normally and I was able to move it up in front of my face, while the other arm remained paralysed and continued to only be active inside the dream that I could no longer see - just feel/hear/etc. If I moved both arms at the same time, I could feel them both move, but only my left arm moved on my real body, while my right arm continued to move in dream space. What was interesting too was I was able to keep this going as long as I kept touching the phone. When I stopped interacting with the dream phone, I eventually regained sensation in my real arm and that started moving instead of the dream one - which I no longer had contact with.

So I went back to sleep and tried to perform it again, had a couple more lucid dreams but got distracted in them and so didn't remember to test it out again. I'm going to try play around with this over the next week each time I get lucid. Anyway I thought I'd share it with you guys in case any of you found it interesting.

I wonder if this has anything to do with phantom limbs and the ability for people to seemingly feel their arm even after it's missing etc? It's like the brain was able to create fully really signals as if I was moving my real arm when it was in fact my dream arm that I was continuing to move.

Anyone else ever done this, and if so, what are your thoughts? Do you think there's anything useful dream control wise that could be taken away from this? One thing that immediately sprung was pain relief. If you were able to allow yourself to feel part of your dream body after awakening, and could somehow maintain that feeling, then if you for example had pain in a certain part of your body you could maybe hold onto to the pain-free version of sensation you were getting from your dream. Although I'm not sure how that'd work because at least in my case my actual limb was paralysed until I stopped the effect.

Thoughts?