For me, yes. Not always fully though. Depends on the level of lucidity.
> How do you keep bad things from happening?
When you are lucid, you don’t fear bad things. They seem merely interesting. In a lucid dream, usually the reality you’re in seems as real as the waking reality. Full resolution, full range of senses. Because it’s the same mechanism. Your brain is presenting a reality to your consciousness, doing the same job it does all the time, the only difference with real life is that it’s hallucinating the inputs instead of taking them from external world. Just like LLMs.
In order to maintain lucidity, you need to maintain a mental state what people with derealization disorders experience in real life: A sense of distance from what you see, touch and hear and a a constant knowledge that the world is not real. Again, because it all seems as real as the real world. Otherwise you can get caught up in the dream’s reality pretty easily, and when you do it just turns into a normal dream where you can get scared. Takes practice and meditation helps.
> More importantly, do you remember anything when you wake up?
You start to remember them once you start journaling your dreams. People only forget their dreams because they automatically label them as unreal and thus insignificant once they wake up. You remember what you deem important.
I practiced LD for a good while back then. Then life and stuff happened. Writing this just inspired me to start the habit (of LDing) again. Thank you.
Anyone can learn it, but it gets harder with age. I don’t check HN much, mail me if interested.
> In a lucid dream, usually the reality you’re in seems as real as the waking reality. Full resolution, full range of senses. Because it’s the same mechanism.
I have no doubt that’s how you see it, but that experience if definitely not universal. It’s never “full resolution” or “full range of senses” for me.
> Otherwise you can get caught up in the dream’s reality pretty easily, and when you do it just turns into a normal dream where you can get scared.
Also doesn’t jive with my experience. My lucid dreams always end with me waking up, they never revert to regular dreams.
Again, I have no doubt you experience things the way you described them. But your use of “you” instead of “I” makes it seem like the points are universal, and thus someone reading your post may try to only pursue that specific path.
For me, yes. Not always fully though. Depends on the level of lucidity.
> How do you keep bad things from happening?
When you are lucid, you don’t fear bad things. They seem merely interesting. In a lucid dream, usually the reality you’re in seems as real as the waking reality. Full resolution, full range of senses. Because it’s the same mechanism. Your brain is presenting a reality to your consciousness, doing the same job it does all the time, the only difference with real life is that it’s hallucinating the inputs instead of taking them from external world. Just like LLMs.
In order to maintain lucidity, you need to maintain a mental state what people with derealization disorders experience in real life: A sense of distance from what you see, touch and hear and a a constant knowledge that the world is not real. Again, because it all seems as real as the real world. Otherwise you can get caught up in the dream’s reality pretty easily, and when you do it just turns into a normal dream where you can get scared. Takes practice and meditation helps.
> More importantly, do you remember anything when you wake up?
You start to remember them once you start journaling your dreams. People only forget their dreams because they automatically label them as unreal and thus insignificant once they wake up. You remember what you deem important.
I practiced LD for a good while back then. Then life and stuff happened. Writing this just inspired me to start the habit (of LDing) again. Thank you.
Anyone can learn it, but it gets harder with age. I don’t check HN much, mail me if interested.