WILD is actually fairly successful for me. I can "go straight into the dream" with relative ease. It usually goes something along the lines of: phosphenes eventually coalesce into a fuzzy gray field, my hands come into view, I begin instinctively performing reality checks while going "holy crap dude I'm dreaming!", and the dream world gradually begins to materialize.It's hard to describe exactly. I certainly seem to acknowledge that I'm dreaming, but it's almost always as if the "plot" of the dream is that it's a lucid dream. I'll explore, interact, and create all while actively thinking "huh, this is an interesting dream" but there's no true awareness. The best example is dreams where I'll fly around some huge public space, openly bragging to people about how their entire universe only exists in my consciousness, all while waking up and realizing I still had no control over my actions ultimately. If I was truly lucid, I wouldn't just go on a power trip towards random NPCs, I would deliberately question them, try to meaningfully interact, ask about my subconscious or something.Another factor is how fragile even this pseudo-lucidity is. I slip in and out of it throughout the dream. Such as last night, where it began as usual, but later when someone was getting aggressive towards me, I turned invisible and floated away. If I was truly lucid, I would've simply done nothing and observed. Even if I was genuinely scared, I would've escaped because the dream was turning unpleasant, not because I truly believed someone was going to harm me. Towards the end of the dream, it usually starts coming back to me. I'll do reality checks, start trying to gauge my level of lucidity, and even imagine my own unconscious body in my room, what's playing on the TV, how much of the dream I'll remember, etc., wondering "Did it work?" right before I wake up. Then of course I always discover I was far less lucid than I'd believed.I've had hundreds of dreams like this.
>>42893447bump. good thread.
>>42893447You gotta get lucid in the ordinary day for the effect to extend into your existence beyond the ordinary linear context. Study the fringes of the ordinary. You will find the habit to study carries over.
why is being lucid in a dream useful or important? many vids about it but i haven't dove into it yet. i have had lucid dreams a few times in the past.
>>42895359Well, a fantasy is defined by something you cannot really live in reality, if you could live it, it wouldn't be a fantasy.So in a lucid dream you can experience any fantasy without consequences, do anything that you wanna do. Right there.Imagine that in real life you had an undo button, say, you could go outside and do whatever you wanted for an hour, and then, hit the undo button so it never happened.That's what lucid dreaming allows.
>>42895359Because you can indulge in anything you please.
>>42893447Hi anon. I am also a dreamwalker of sorts. I did not practice it, it just sort of happens relatively often. Even when ot lucid i have many dreams, even though i’d rather not because sometimes i wake up tired.Anyways i noticed something. I am not fully myself in dreams even in lucid ones. I think at any given moment i will have some brain regions on while others are off. Like i noticed myself being unable to recollect some information that is trivial (while lucid). After waking up, i could recollect the info no problem. Other times while lucid i would also have fake or scrambled information in my “mind”. After waking up i realised that i was operating with fabricated nonsense info while also lucid.My guess is that we can never be fully lucid in the dream, because then we’d be awake. But it is like a pseudo conscious experience. At first i thought ‘im acting weird because this is an unusual experience’ but now i think that the reason why this happens is because im only able to work with some brain regions at any given time. Not to mention sometimes having to actively suppress my consciousness so that i don’t wake up from too much lucidity. Or not to piss off the subconscious and having it go non-compliant / kick me out of the dream lol.
>>42893447>Another factor is how fragile even this pseudo-lucidity is.I've had some lucid dreams over the years, and in even the best and most lucid ones, I had this feeling of fragility. I mostly could never just "be" in the dream, rather as soon as I became aware in there was a feeling of having to strain to even maintain reality around me. There were a few exceptions, including one dream where I actually had something resembling a proper interaction or conversation with a woman, and it truly felt like I was living in the moment during it.In my case I mostly chalk this up to not doing any kind of consistent or structured practice or preparation to enter the lucid state. I have most of them spontaneously if I happen to wake early and find myself going back to sleep.
