I noticed that the ability to LD is strongly correlated with the condition known as “Maladaptive Daydreaming” (the “maladaptive” part here is subjective and situational, but it basically means the ability and need to have very addctive, vivid, VR-like daydreams that obscure waking reality).
I used to suffer from MD, until I learned to control it well enough to just be benign Daydreaming. Simultaneously, I achieved the ability to LD, which works on very similar principles to controlled Daydreaming.
The trick to LD if you are a person who daydreams visually, is to focus on plausibility. Trying to consciously train your daydreaming mind to enforce realistic, plausible daydream scenarios leads to the same mental need to “fix” unrealistic dreams, which either wakes you up from the dream or makes it Lucid.
Now, all that being said, LDs rarely approach the quality of Daydreams. Its extremely hard to make a Lucid Dream realistic and detailed enough not to feel trippy. Moreover, while most Daydreamers can make their Daydreams simulate tactile sensations, you cannot do the same in an actual dream. For one, erotic Lucid Dreaming is almost always pointless, because your lucid mind cannot force your sleeping body to actually experience sexual pleasure, let alone orgasm. If you are a bio male, it is likely you won’t even achieve erection, so LD sex feels like trying to play pool with a rope.
The only good use I ever got from LDs is that it lets you remember bits of your dreams better and use it as raw footage to edit into your Daydreams.
I noticed that the ability to LD is strongly correlated with the condition known as “Maladaptive Daydreaming” (the “maladaptive” part here is subjective and situational, but it basically means the ability and need to have very addctive, vivid, VR-like daydreams that obscure waking reality).
I used to suffer from MD, until I learned to control it well enough to just be benign Daydreaming. Simultaneously, I achieved the ability to LD, which works on very similar principles to controlled Daydreaming.
The trick to LD if you are a person who daydreams visually, is to focus on plausibility. Trying to consciously train your daydreaming mind to enforce realistic, plausible daydream scenarios leads to the same mental need to “fix” unrealistic dreams, which either wakes you up from the dream or makes it Lucid.
Now, all that being said, LDs rarely approach the quality of Daydreams. Its extremely hard to make a Lucid Dream realistic and detailed enough not to feel trippy. Moreover, while most Daydreamers can make their Daydreams simulate tactile sensations, you cannot do the same in an actual dream. For one, erotic Lucid Dreaming is almost always pointless, because your lucid mind cannot force your sleeping body to actually experience sexual pleasure, let alone orgasm. If you are a bio male, it is likely you won’t even achieve erection, so LD sex feels like trying to play pool with a rope.
The only good use I ever got from LDs is that it lets you remember bits of your dreams better and use it as raw footage to edit into your Daydreams.
Good point about impossibility of sex in LD. But masturbation is actually a form of day dreaming,
I wrote Active Imagination as an Alternative to Lucid Dreaming: Theory and Experimental Results which is basically about controlled daydreaming.