Thread: Writing or drawing during an LD

Has anyone else found it extremely hard to write or draw anything during an LD?

I am right-handed, but if I try to write even my name on something - it looks like I used my left hand! I find myself re-tracing the letters over and over in my dream to try and make the letters legible, but this seems only to make matters worse usually.

This happened to me again Wed. afternoon after I did a back to bed technique, and tried to write my name & credit card # on a slip of paper in a store.

ALSO...I invite you ALL to try this during your next LD...

Move towards an object that you can get your hand around...a clothes rack, a chair...and play "T-1000"! As described in my journal, yesterday I was able to make my hands grasp and then pass THROUGH the object!!! I actually had a sensation of the coldness of the metal I was passing through as I did this...it's unbelieveably cool!!!

C

From what I read, the part of your brain that manages writing and reading is unconcious while you are asleep, and therefore, doesn't work properly.
This is why reading a text and then reading it again to see if it's changed or if it's hard to read is a well-known Reality Check. That's probably the reason you're having trouble writing.

As for the passing through things. That's a Reality Check too. ^.^ This works by for instance trying to make the right thumb go through the left hand.

I don't remember trying to write in a dream (I haven't really gotten around to that), but I read all the time in dreams (both lucid and non-lucid) without any trouble. The closest I came to writing was when I sort of scribbled on a dry-erase marker board while looking away and looked down to see what I ended up with. (This was a non-lucid dream, so I thought I was awake.) I was amazed that there were actually several real, legible words there, although they didn't form a meaningful sentence. Then I tried it again, and I wound up with some pattern of numbers and shapes that looked like some sort of code. The weird thing was that it appeared in different colors even though I was only using one marker.

When I was much younger, I once had a lucid dream (I think it was lucid--it's hard to remember) where I sort of turned myself into a ghost and was able to pass through walls and fences. I don't remember what it was like, though, and I haven't managed to do that again yet.

As I've said before in other topics, I have no problem reading or writing in LD's. Crystal clarity. Actually last night I drew some beautiful sketches of people in an LD; since I'm a crap artist in real life.

Charybdus.
That is completely normal. The hemisphere that is being mostly used while you are in a dream is right hemisphere. This is associated with tasks and coherent thinking, reading and writing skills.
So while you are in a lucid dream these tasks become difficult. The more lucid you become the easier those type of tasks. Which would stand to reason. The higher level of lucidity the more conscious you are.

im going to write on a notepad tonight in my LD to see if it becomes more vivid

Originally posted by BillyBob_001
im going to write on a notepad tonight in my LD to see if it becomes more vivid

ok i actually did this.... it didnt really make the dream more vivid (I was writing what I saw like "dog" "*persons name*" although it did make many random people appear.... they just kept walking out of random places as I wrote down their names and stuff

Wow, BB...that's pretty interesting!

Maybe next time, I'll write something like, "Miss March" on whatever I'm writing on!

...for those of you who've seen her, I think you'd agree...!

C

I would think that if a person drew in a lucid dream, the image would shift itself as you drew, creating the picture faster than you could draw it. Hopefully, it would turn into something unexpected, yet meaningful.

Once when I was lucid I built a snowman and this happened. The snow kept transforming as I worked on it. My goal was to create something that would grant wishes (like a genie), and can you guess what formed? I version of myself! But he was much more calm, freindly, and peaceful than I. Very centered and comfortable in his own skin. He gave me good advice on how to live my life.