Does anyone here know the actual logic of lucid dreaming? Like why can we jump throug a mirror, or why does our hand get distorted? I know it’s a ll in our minds, but why does the mind allow us to not be able to turn off the light, for example?
Jumping through a mirror is easy, since you can do most of this stuff in a dream as long as you believe you can. About distorted hands and especially light switch issues, check this thread for a similar discussion.
Dreams are based of expectations. You’ve been told you’ll have distorted hands - and so you do.
You’ve been told light switches won’t work - and so they don’t.
You’ve been told DC’s refuse to accept it’s a dream - and so they don’t.
Personnally, I haven’t had any of those ‘problems’ (my hands are fine, lightbulbs generally work and DC’s will happily accept it’s a dream - I quite often get them to teach me how to use my powers).
I only realised that this was based on expectations after I tried the lightbulb and it worked. I then rememberd that they weren’t meant to work… and it didn’t.
At any rate, it’s hard getting over the myth . They work, but quite often don’t work ‘properly’ (eg. giving out a single, concnetrated beam of light).
light switches work after a few tries for me … i agree, it’s totally based on expectations.
I tried to change my appearance in front of a mirror. I ended up with a face like a vampire in Buffy the Vampir Slayer but i gotta say, it seems to me my reflection is a being of its own and is only trying to mimic me…
It’s perhaps our own understanding of the IRL mirror phenomenon. Until we are about 1 year and a half old, we don’t realize that the people in the mirrors are reflections.
I agree with whoever said the whole mirrors and light switches thing is based mostly on expectations, but I also think that IRL, light switches work of their own accord. You simply flip them. In dreams, however, your mind has to do all the work, flip the switch and turn on the light. The mind has to recreate how the world works in a dream, which is why many things aren’t as they should be… your brain did it wrong. It messes up because we don’t think about such things–light switches, how many fingers we have, how mirrors work, etc–24 hours a day. Once we become lucid, however, our conscious brain can remember how things work–or, if you want, you can recreate things in a totally different manner.
Mirrors are always messed up in dreams. They are what you make of them…and sometimes that means something really f’d up…lol. I’ve never worried about not being able to see my regular self in a mirror, because I know I wont. Mirrors are just something different… should just forget about the reflection and walk right through it
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i am scared of mirrors i dont know why?? im quite pro Ldreamer and i offen see them… when im near it i try not to watch it becouse its kinda fraky !!
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Have u Got same problem? or Do you like them?