InfoSource wrote:I have done amazing feats in normal non-lucid dreams.
To Alisima, have you ever in your experience as a lucid dreamer tried to control time? Or better put the perception of time in your lucid dream?
For instance in reality a lucid dream lasts 1 or 2 minutes, but while you are dreaming you can make the experience feel like your lucid dreaming for hours, days, or even years?
No, I haven't done that, at least not purposely. I have read books, however, in which people claim they have spend entire months in their dreams. So it is very much possible. Although I don't see the point of it, with time being non-existent and all.
But for record, you are already controlling 'time' in your dreams. Like I said before, there is nothing in your dream which isn't you, your perception of time included. You create your own dream, and then you want to change it. How odd! Why not create a new dream altogether instead of changing the last, which can't be done anyhow, since it does not exist.
Just a couple of days ago I had a non-lucid dream in which I practised telekinesis. Although I knew in my back of my mind it had to be a dream, the thought never occured to me on a conscious level. Anyhow, as I was showing my dreamcharacters how easy it was to move things with my mind, it actually took much of my concentration. In retrospect, it was ofcourse very stupid of me to think that telekinesis, in a dream, requires concentration. It, obviously, requires as much as concentration to move the object than to keep them still. And since movement, specially in a dream, is pure 'hot air', it makes it even double obvious.
But, in the dream it still took me some 'concentration', or at least I thought. And that is where I went wrong, I thought. I thought it needed concentration, and therefore I could not succeed, or not as much as I wanted. What if you were, on a conscious and subconscious level, fully convinced you can move objects in your dream without even the slightest concentration. Would that not make objects easier to move?? In fact, they would move where and whenever you wanted, instantly. And that, accoring to my own observations, is absolutely correct.
Most people wrongfully assume that in a dream, only the dream, with its scenario and characters, are imagined. Apart from that, also the believes and laws you hold true are imagined, recreated in your dream and then they confine you (and yes, also your thoughts.) Almost all of those believes and laws are directly copied from the 'waking-life'. Among them are the notions that you cannot fly, or that you cannot move objects with mind-power alone. These are false, and must be seen that way if you ever want to fly, with no apparent restrictions, in a dream.
So the only one who is restricting you in doing amazing feats in your dreams, lucid or non-lucid, are you.
I think it is perfectly possible for someone to be fully conscious in their sleep, dream or no dream. The only one preventing you from doing it, is you. Which seems like illogic. But it is so. On a certain level you want to do just that, be fully conscious in your sleep, but on another level you think that you can't do that, or need training for that, or some other misassumption. That is what is preventing you from actually doing it. In order to achieve this 'conscious-sleep', you may subject yourself to training, but then you are again implying that you are somehow not ready for it, which renders you unable to do it.
Some people call it beginners luck when a beginner, and it could be of any sport or game, suddenly finds himself winning. Normally a beginner should not be able to win, since he is just a beginner. However, he does win. And we, being unable to explain it, call it luck. But that is not the case. This beginner, without anything to lose, plays the game almost spontaneous, and without any distressing thoughs about losing, or winning, or good or bad technique, is in a much better state to play the game, and therefore, wins.
Or you could say, he is without doubt. He just does it. That is exactly the state one should be in when one tries to control his dreams. Without doubt.
And I think it is the same state which you require when you want to levitate, or do telekinesis in real life. I have read some books on these subjects and I suspect it to be the same state. And yes, lucid dreaming could be used as a training ground to practise these 'super-powers'. But then again, the same restrictions that restricted you in your dream, now restrict you in your normal life. Which are, as with all things, false, and when finally seen this way allows you to manipulate your environment around you.
But that is another story, besides that, it requires years of training to get rid of the idea that you can't do it, and with the training only strengthening the idea of your unabilities you can see it is quite an arduous task while at the same time being as simple as truth itself. Yes, it can be 'learned' in less than a second.
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But i think it is worth to work on it (Dream recalling & to become lucid).
