benjhenry

I've posted similar content on five forums, and this is definitely the one in which people are more inclined to leave a statement of their beliefs than engage in a discussion. Interesting! If anyone has some experiences to add, ideas to share and talk about - let me know

@Nahm Indeed. But what do you experience?

@r0ckyreed Absolutely. I have experienced this most strongly while meditating in a lucid dream. Great points, thanks for sharing.

Remember those old racing games at the arcades where the car stayed in one spot and the track flowed beneath it? And then 3D gaming picked up and you actually moved around the computer-generated environment. It got me thinking... in a lucid dream, do you believe that we move around the dream, like a conscious entity tracing our neural pathways, or does the dream move around us? I'm writing a blog on this and would love to hear your experiences.

I’m enjoying success these days with finding the characters I seek in a lucid dream (very helpful when interviewing the characters in my books), but I was wondering if anyone had any tips on changing location? The most effective method I’m using is diving through a window, with the expectation of the new location often making it so - but are there any other strategies that people have used? Also, I haven’t found much of a LD community on Twitter. Is there a Twitter community I’m missing out on?

I should have signed up to email alerts - I've only just stumbled on this again! I'm currently reading 'Being Aware of Being Aware' by Rupert Spira, in which it says 'Enlightenment or awakening is not a particular experience or state of mind that may be achieved by practising hard enough or meditating long enough. It is the recognition of the very nature of the mind.' I can't say I agree with (or perhaps understand) everything he says in the book, but I do agree with this - that enlightenment is not something to be pursued. As such, I don't think one should choose to seek enlightenment over other activities, be it lucid dreaming or watching a good film! You could always say, 'Why do that when you could be pursuing enlightenment', but I think it's important to enjoy the world, question ourselves and explore the mind - and lucid dreaming is a great way of doing that.

@How to be wise Much of life is a play with form, and 'better' is subjective, but I'm interested in what you mean?

@seeking_brilliance 'Which one are you, if either?' is such a good question, and one I often ask. Sometimes it feels like you are in control, but generally that there is something more powerful (if only your subconscious) calling the shots, and the part of you trying to alter the dreamscape is not so effective. I have a copy of that book! I read it about 10 years ago and remember enjoying it - I'll give it another look, and see if it sheds any light on what I'm wondering now.

Images in dreams are often generated by expectation. As soon as I think, 'There's a wolf nearby', I'll see a wolf (or perhaps something less terrifying...). But in lucid dreaming I have enjoyed moments when my subconscious surprises me. I've recently been generating ideas for a book cover in my lucid dreams, and it's fascinating to look at a canvas and try to work out why you have been presented with that collection of images? Where do they come from? Are they all memory fragments, or a synthesis? Will we ever know?

I know what you mean. I think it probably is some unconscious element trying to prevent us from running headlong into walls. I find it interesting how sometimes it's possible and sometimes it isn't, like it depends on the level to which we understand it is a dream.

Has anyone else found that sometimes it’s easy to walk through walls and doors in a lucid dream, and other times it’s impossible? You know you’re dreaming, but a part of you is refusing to play ball…