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Living in a Lucid Dream

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Re: Living in a Lucid Dream

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The below is not specific to lucid dreaming but more about experiments regarding consciousness and perceived passage of time: - Researchers wanted to see how the "time slows down under extreme events" worked - They created a watch that blinked a message at a time too fast for humans to see under normal circumstances - They then had people bungee jump and try to read the watch during the jump Turns out that people cou…

It's possible, but completely anecdotally I was in a six car pileup and watched the stuff move from my backseat to the window to smash against it in what felt like 20-30 seconds.

I remember clearly having several thoughts in what could not have been more than 1 second between getting hit and my entire car smashing into another at 60 mph.

  "Oh, that's my kleenex box, dang that's just hanging there huh?"
  "What's that noise? Oh, its me screaming."
  "I better hold my self against the steering wheel for the airbag... wait, if I am thinking this that means there's no airbag"
  
I remember watching my seatbelt break and snap across my chest, moving like a languid snake, barely motivated to snap back to the wall.

However, many other times in my life in extreme situations nothing like that happened, so I don't know if just jumping off a cliff is enough trauma or fear of death to cause it reliably.

Re: Living in a Lucid Dream

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I frequently have lucid dreams, in that I'm entirely aware of that fact that I'm dreaming while in the dream.

What I find interesting, however, is that if I have a dream I forgot to study for my test, or I'm naked at school because I left my clothes somewhere else, or the school play starts tonight and I haven't memorized a single line... the fact that I know I'm dreaming doesn't help at all.

Because the problem is that, while lucid dreaming, I have no access to any real-life knowledge or memories. I figure that I'm having the dream because I actually am in school in real life, with an exam I forgot about in the morning. I simply have no access to the fact that I left school many years ago. And if there's a monster behind the door in my dream, it seems entirely plausible in my dream that that's simply because there are monsters in the real world too.

And quite often my dreams are related to real-life situations that happened yesterday or are happening tomorrow or this week -- so it's not like I can try to convince myself of some "rule" that dream anxieties are never anything to worry about.

So my whole anxious lucid dream I'm just thinking, "boy I really hope that I'm not actually in a play that opens tomorrow night..." And then I wake up and it is suddenly crystal-clear that I haven't been in a high school play in decades.

But during my lucid dream, there's absolutely no way of knowing. Curious if this is universal or if other people who lucid dream do always know the details of their actual true reality -- their age, what city and home they live in, current job, etc.

Re: Living in a Lucid Dream

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post #11

The below is not specific to lucid dreaming but more about experiments regarding consciousness and perceived passage of time: - Researchers wanted to see how the "time slows down under extreme events" worked - They created a watch that blinked a message at a time too fast for humans to see under normal circumstances - They then had people bungee jump and try to read the watch during the jump Turns out that people cou…

It's possible, but completely anecdotally I was in a six car pileup and watched the stuff move from my backseat to the window to smash against it in what felt like 20-30 seconds. I remember clearly having several thoughts in what could not have been more than 1 second between getting hit and my entire car smashing into another at 60 mph. "Oh, that's my kleenex box, dang that's just hanging there huh?" "What's that no…

Weird that your seat belt broke, they aren't supposed to do that. Was it damaged previously?

Re: Living in a Lucid Dream

#17
Richard Feynman reports in his biography on his own experiments with lucid dreaming. He found sleep to not be restful enough anymore, found it impossible to switch the lucid part of dreaming off and eventually had a negative experience that caused him to stop.

Re: Living in a Lucid Dream

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The original "how can I tell if we're in a simulation" discussion: https://www.thelucidguide.com/the-butterfly-dream-chuang-tzu... False awakenings are another aspect of dreams: https://www.sleepfoundation.org/dreams/false-awakening

First site: "For the security of our visitors and to avoid abuse of the site, this website runs a zero VPN, Tor, or Proxy.

They must have extremely valuable info? Then i checked it through a cache, almost no content, affiliate links, a shop and huge popup.

Is that site a complete joke or is this some new anti AI thing?

Re: Living in a Lucid Dream

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The original "how can I tell if we're in a simulation" discussion: https://www.thelucidguide.com/the-butterfly-dream-chuang-tzu... False awakenings are another aspect of dreams: https://www.sleepfoundation.org/dreams/false-awakening

As a child, for a few years I had a recurring nightmare with multiple false awakenings, sometimes five or six until I would wake up for real.

I would wake up in bed, get up and at a specific point, an overwhelming feeling of impending doom would overcome me. Then at the peak of this emotion, a monster would grab me by my ankles and violently drag me back up the stairs and into bed. I would then wake up and repeat the process.

Sometimes, I was not sure anymore if I landed in reality or if this existence will turn into horror again.

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