Bruh, girl, there’s so much fun things you can do in your dream if you can lucid dream it but apparently instead of that, the obsession to your work encompassed any desire, curiousity or relaxation…
I mean I learned to lucid dream a long time ago and I feel like the effects are very exaggerated. If you can close your eyes and imagine something really hard, that’s about the same as lucid dreaming. Every time I’ve done it I’ve both been aware it’s a dream and aware that it’s just imagination too.
I’ve never related to the stories of people claiming they can fully simulate reality in their minds during lucid dreaming. It never felt like that to me, felt more like jusy having your mind wander during daydreaming. Maybe I’m doing it wrong but it seems like what lucid dreaming is supposed to be, awareness that I’m asleep and dreaming, able to wake myself up at any moment, and able to conjure up images of sensations.
Maybe you just don’t get as vivid lucid dreams as most people. For me it is less like daydreaming, and more like absolute power in a world of my own design. I’m not just imagining something, I’m going “I want this to happen now” and it happens with all the sights, sounds, and feelings that involves.
Respectfully, it is all the ‘sights, sounds and feelings’ that you imagine it involves, because it isn’t actually happening. Falling in a dream (even lucid) tends to be a very different experience after you’ve actually done it irl.
In the context of daydreaming, imagining is a very active process. In lucid dreaming, everything that is conjured simply happens independent of any active thought. I don’t have to think “if there were a bear there it would have brown fur and be big and round with teeth and it might make a grunt that sounds like this” I simply go “I want a bear to be there now” and it just exists and does bear stuff as if I had been having a dream about encountering a bear independently.
Are your normal dreams not any different from daydreaming? If you have a nightmare about a monster chasing you it’s not any different from imagining what a monster would be like while you’re awake? Because for me those are two entirely different experiences.
My point isn’t if the imagining is an active process or not in lucid dreaming, in my experience it isn’t. My point is that what the subconscious is conjuring often bears little real sense relation to the reality of the thing in question, often it is only the appearance of the thing, particularly for things that you have never actually encountered before in reality.
Like, you ‘encountering a bear’ will have a closer relationship to you seeing a bear on television or at the zoo, than what the actual smell, touch and feel of a bear really is. Your imagination will fill in the blanks for you.
when i was having frequent lucid dreams i had awareness of the fact i was dreaming but did not have much control over them.
if i was searching to find my dog, for instance, I would have to really explore the messed up blended together landscape i was physically in and find locations associated with my dog.
in my experience, you cannot just summon a bunch of hunky dudes out of mid air
Up until I was 9 I could, on demand, stop any dream and pick from a “selector” just like a jukebox to go back to any other dream I had and enjoyed. I was fully aware I was sleeping, and would choose freely.
I hate that as I got older I completely lost this skill.
Summoning out of thin air is harder, ime telling myself something is just around a corner and turning it with the expectation it would there works much better.
*Learns to lucid dream
*Instead of having fun with it you WORK??!
Bruh, girl, there’s so much fun things you can do in your dream if you can lucid dream it but apparently instead of that, the obsession to your work encompassed any desire, curiousity or relaxation…
Damn it, capitalism.
When I learned to lucid dream it was so a bunch of hot dudes would fawn over me.
Kinda embarrassing in hindsight but after reading this not embarrassing at all.
Did it work? Asking for a friend…
I mean I learned to lucid dream a long time ago and I feel like the effects are very exaggerated. If you can close your eyes and imagine something really hard, that’s about the same as lucid dreaming. Every time I’ve done it I’ve both been aware it’s a dream and aware that it’s just imagination too.
I’ve never related to the stories of people claiming they can fully simulate reality in their minds during lucid dreaming. It never felt like that to me, felt more like jusy having your mind wander during daydreaming. Maybe I’m doing it wrong but it seems like what lucid dreaming is supposed to be, awareness that I’m asleep and dreaming, able to wake myself up at any moment, and able to conjure up images of sensations.
Maybe you just don’t get as vivid lucid dreams as most people. For me it is less like daydreaming, and more like absolute power in a world of my own design. I’m not just imagining something, I’m going “I want this to happen now” and it happens with all the sights, sounds, and feelings that involves.
My daydreaming certainly doesn’t compare.
Respectfully, it is all the ‘sights, sounds and feelings’ that you imagine it involves, because it isn’t actually happening. Falling in a dream (even lucid) tends to be a very different experience after you’ve actually done it irl.
In the context of daydreaming, imagining is a very active process. In lucid dreaming, everything that is conjured simply happens independent of any active thought. I don’t have to think “if there were a bear there it would have brown fur and be big and round with teeth and it might make a grunt that sounds like this” I simply go “I want a bear to be there now” and it just exists and does bear stuff as if I had been having a dream about encountering a bear independently.
Are your normal dreams not any different from daydreaming? If you have a nightmare about a monster chasing you it’s not any different from imagining what a monster would be like while you’re awake? Because for me those are two entirely different experiences.
My point isn’t if the imagining is an active process or not in lucid dreaming, in my experience it isn’t. My point is that what the subconscious is conjuring often bears little real sense relation to the reality of the thing in question, often it is only the appearance of the thing, particularly for things that you have never actually encountered before in reality.
Like, you ‘encountering a bear’ will have a closer relationship to you seeing a bear on television or at the zoo, than what the actual smell, touch and feel of a bear really is. Your imagination will fill in the blanks for you.
Okay but I really feel you have completely misunderstood the context of the conversation, because this has nothing to do with it.
I was talking about vividness, not accuracy to the real world.
when i was having frequent lucid dreams i had awareness of the fact i was dreaming but did not have much control over them.
if i was searching to find my dog, for instance, I would have to really explore the messed up blended together landscape i was physically in and find locations associated with my dog.
in my experience, you cannot just summon a bunch of hunky dudes out of mid air
Up until I was 9 I could, on demand, stop any dream and pick from a “selector” just like a jukebox to go back to any other dream I had and enjoyed. I was fully aware I was sleeping, and would choose freely.
I hate that as I got older I completely lost this skill.
that sounds awesome. do you know where you lost the skill at? can I find it?
Summoning out of thin air is harder, ime telling myself something is just around a corner and turning it with the expectation it would there works much better.
exactly. exploring the dream labyrinth to find your dog is so fun
…you’re friend will be interested to know…
Yes…
Lucky you, my lucid dreams are usually ptsd attacks or straight up horror movies (creative ones but alas)
Do
AndroidsWorkers Dream of ElectricSheepJobs?It’s the same mindset as the ceo ghouls that microdose lsd to be better at work.
Dream job? No, I do not dream of labor, thank you.