Hi, Has Anyone Ever Had A Lucid Dream? If So, Is It Possible To Learn A New Skill Within The Dream World?

[StevieP87]

Hi, has anyone ever had a lucid dream? If so, is it possible to learn a new skill within the dream world? 

[barry1010]

I've had lucid dreams but they haven't taught me a new skill.  I did dream I jumped off a cliff and flew over the ocean but I wouldn't try it to see if I'd learned how to fly

[naomi24]

I've never learnt a new skill in a dream but I think it could be possible.

[dave50]

Yes I have them now and again. In my dream I know I'm dreaming and I seem to be able to chose to wake up out of my dream at will, usually by the same method.  It's quite weird. 

[ToraToraTora]

Yes, I regularly have lucid dreams. It's very difficult to realise you are in a dream but I usually see someone I know is dead then I know it's a dream. I have also woken up, gone to the loo, gone back to sleep and rejoined a dream.

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I have my doubts about whether lucid dreaming exists... i suspect more often people dream about being lucid which is not quite the same thing. doesn't really matter though. 
 

i don't think you can learn a skill by doing it but dreams can be very impactful spiritually. they are the closest thing to a "supernatural" experience you will likely encounter and can sometimes be very profound. pursue dreaming for its own sake rather than because you want to make it productive somehow

[ToraToraTora]

15:45 Lucid dreaming definately exists, I have done it many times. The  key is finding a way to know when it is a dream in the dream. My cue is usually I see someone I know is dead then I can drive the dream. The problem is though I know I only have a short time to "play" as I am about to wake up because even in the dream I know you only dream  when you are about to wake up anyway!

[ToraToraTora]

To answer part 2 of the question about skills, no I don't think so but I have had a few light bulb moments in dreams but when I wake up I can't remember what they are but I can remember thinking it was a great idea at the time!

[Chipchopper]

Yes often, I recall being able to fly with the power of thought, on one occasion. I said, "this is not possible, then a voice said " but you can when you are here".

sometimes my old dog will pay me a visit.

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but how do you "know" if you are lucid? how do you know if you are "driving" a dream? how could you tell the difference between a dream you were in control of and dreaming about being in control?

[ToraToraTora]

16:36, because once you know it's a dream you can then do things like have a pint with a departed friend, go somewhere that isn't there anymore. The difference is you know it's not real but you play along anyway. It's very difficult to get to that state but once you do it's another world.

[Peter Pedant]

I've never learnt a new skill in a dream but I think it could be possible.

it stays in a dream world. Very popular in the 1930s, the idea. and yu still see it for languages. You can test that - people dont learn the vocab.

Brave New WOrld - the epsilon semi morons get "I am glad I am an epsilon semi moron as the alphas have to work SOOO hard..." one million times at some stage of their development.... which was the fictional account of learning in sleep. ( I think that is chap 1 when they are looking around the baby factory)

I think one real world expt showed they learnt less because of the sleep disturbance caused.

BUT dreams have been associated with scientific discoveries - the bright scientist ( fortune favours a prepared mind  Pasteur- the more I practise the  luckier I get -  Arnold Palmer, I thought it was a tennis player) wakes and says "Oh the answer is..."

Kekule's dream  no he really existed, benzene rings as a snake eating its tail  - (C6H6) - not an amphisbaena, that is  something else

Polya ( no  he existed as well) has Poincare ( not the president of france (*) the other one) solve a group-theory problem  whilst stepping on a bus at Coutances ( exists).

I am sure Einstein woke up one day and said E=mc2

 

[Peter Pedant]

(*) the other poincare, the president bled to death after an assassination attempt, when they put the tourniquet on, too LOW ! - didnt  they look etc, apparently not

[jourdain2]

I'd not heard the phrase 'lucid dream' but it seems to describe a very few dreams I have had.  

They don't last long - like a hugely clear picture with sound- but they make a massive impact.  E.G. Years ago I suddently had a picture of a circular space with flames and people screaming and struggling.  it  woke me up. 

Later, when I woke up properly, there was the news of the American space launch where people burned.  Was it Christa McAuliffe?

I've had a few like that - not all so horrible.  Is that what you mean?

 

[Peter Pedant]

TTT is describing 'hypnopompic dreams' - just before you wake up ( going to sleep, hypnogogic)

when I was seven ( boarding school) and I had a dream which ended -  "no no dont turn the light on! ....."- - and flash it was 7 am  and  the prefect  had... turned the light on !

I realised that i| must have been listening to the outside world as I awoke.

Freud noted ( he wrote between one and seven million words so it wd not be difficult for him to  note it somewhere) that his patients didnt have Freudian dreams to start with but learnt to do so...

[Peter Pedant]

well it is all here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream

and yes  it is possible to learn a new skill ( see TTT) - to lucid dream  ! hmm a bit self referential there

[Peter Pedant]

suggestion: had a terrible night where I dreamt I had ruptured my knee joint and had to keep the leg straight - - until 7 am when I realised none of it was true. - I did  wonder about the housemaid's knee ( prepatellar bursa). ( and that it was cold and raining which was absolutely true)