Hello everybody. First time poster, long time lurker. I have been reading about everyone's experiences here in regards to lucid dreams and alot of you seem to have a slightly different definition of what qualifies as a lucid dream than I do. Most of you seem to not be able to control your lucid dreams. You become aware that you are dreaming and then you just become an eyewitness to the events that are taking place. If that is what is considered a lucid dream then I have been doing that all my life. However, there is another type of dream state that I encounter and after being able to do it for a number of years and learning about lucid dreams online I discovered it to be the true definition of a lucid dream as it was taught on one particular website. I am in no way trying to downplay the experiences of anyone here. I am grateful for this forum as I feel I can learn something from everyone here. To avoid confusion I will refer to these as controlled lucid dreams.
When I was very young I seemed to have alot of abilities while in the dream state. Some I still have while some have left me but hopefully with practice I will get them back. While having a pleasant dream something would awaken me (alarm clock, sunlight, etc) and I would fight to try and return to that dream so that I could watch it play out. The problem is that when I returned everything would look the same but nothing would be moving. Not even the people. It's like someone pressed the pause button. I realized that nothing would move unless I willed it. I found this to be frustrating because nothing would operate on its own accord. I could make things move just by my thoughts but it nevered seemed natural. The wind would not even blow unless I willed it. The more objects, people, animals etc there were the harder it would become because it's hard to keep track of so many things at once. Things would stop or start as I became aware or unaware of them. Eventually I started reading about lucid dreaming and learned a technique to bring about these dreams at will and most importantly to me, how to make practical use out of them.
This is where my experiences once again differ from the majority posted here. Some posters seem unable to change their surroundings or find objects they are looking for while lucid. While controllably lucid I don't have this problem because I can change the environment as I see fit. Around the time I 'formally' learned about lucid dreaming I was fairly early into my martial arts training. So when I entered a controlled lucid dream I would say, "Oh cool, I can train in my sleep!" and change whatever the environment was at the time into an empty room similar to a dojo and perform techniques. Controlling an empty room or one with only a few objects is easier than greasing the wheels of an entire house, park, etc. After a while I sort of lost interest in lucid dreams and became more involved in other phenomenon but I am slowly getting back into it.
I was just wondering if this isn't a lucid dream then what is it? It seems to be a world controlled by my mind alone. I also want to know if anyone else have experienced this.
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