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Anon learns how to lucid dream (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 48 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I had one lucid dream experience. I was like "holy shit, this is a lucid dream! I can control everything happening." And so I did. It felt so damn cool.

Then I woke up, at first impressed that I did that. Then I just couldn't help but wonder if I was just dreaming that I lucid dreamed and that the choices I made were actually just a part of the dream. Now I feel like most lucid dreamers aren't actually. Like this guy that can "control everything" and yet is somehow dreaming about Peter Griffin anyway due to made up limitations

Then I question free will or whatever and my brain hurts

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

Then I woke up, at first impressed that I did that. Then I just couldn’t help but wonder if I was just dreaming that I lucid dreamed and that the choices I made were actually just a part of the dream.

Your choices in a dream are colored by the reduced mental output you have when you're dreaming. In a dream, you might make a lot of dumb decisions than make perfect sense in the dream, but are immediately illogical when you think about them awake.

With lucid dreaming, you have an increased self-awareness, but you're still in a low-activity brainwave state.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

We have no free will, but not enough knowledge and power to break the illusion thereof.