[ValkyrieVoice]

Is it normal to not feel physical things in your dreams? I've heard that if you do feel things than you're dying. Just a curiosity. Please input.

[lookingfortruth]

ValkyrieVoice, on 26 October 2009 - 12:26 AM, said:

Is it normal to not feel physical things in your dreams? I've heard that if you do feel things than you're dying. Just a curiosity. Please input.

Your wondering if its normal if your not dieing? Seems pretty self explanitory to me

[Psykonos777]

Seems like superstition to me. If you had lucid dreams you would be more likely to feel objects within your dreams. Just a thought.

[SupeRgirl]

It sounds like an ole wife's tale to me.

Lucid dreams, astral dreamers all talk about being able to feel in their dreams just as they would while consciously awake.

[Mr Walker]

My dreams are often indistiguishable from reality They include feel smell taste etc . It appears to depend on two things. How well your subconscious can recall these memories from your conscious mind while dreaming, and also how much the physical impact of the outside world touches your dreams

For example, in studying dreams, researchers have found out that, if they introduce tastes, smells or sensations into the dreamer those can enter the dream. A drop of water on the hand will shape the dream, as will a smell or a taste..

Generally, however, common or garden variety dreams are disconnected, symbolic interpretations, which your subconscious is using to sift and evaluate recent real events and conscious thoughts. It is usual for a dreamer in that state, either to have very limited perceptions, say only sight and sound, or not to make any conscous connection if deeper awareness exists. ie when you wake up you only remember the stronger sight and sound, even though you did expereince tase or touch in your dream..

[eclectic 1]

Brains, and minds, differ...so dreams differ. Some people dream in color, while others only dream in black & white. some feel things they touch,and others don't. As long as you don't have brain damage, a tumor, or such, it is probably a quirk of your personality which may change over time.

[little_dreamer]

I don't have much physical sensation in my dreams. It's mostly emotions and sight that I expericence.
Not much sound, taste, touch, or smells. Sometime a feeling of motion or movement.

[Raptor]

SupeRgirl, on 26 October 2009 - 12:21 AM, said:

It sounds like an ole wife's tale to me.

Lucid dreams, astral dreamers all talk about being able to feel in their dreams just as they would while consciously awake.

A few weeks ago I had my first lucid dream, I didn't make a conscious effort to induce it, although I made a vague attempt to for a couple of days about a month prior to it, after coming across a website on the subject. I'm not sure if that was at all related. I was woken up particularly early one morning by a disturbance outside, then as I was trying to go back to sleep I found myself caught in that in between stage of sleep and waking, then I let my mind wander and the next thing I know I'm in a dream but entirely conscious.

Anyway. It was totally surreal, and didn't last for very long, but I definitely had physical sensation. I distinctly remember reaching out to grasp and turn a door handle, then pushing a door open. Also, as I felt myself begin to wake from the dream, I started to spin in very fast circles on the spot (I remembered the same website saying that doing so can help to maintain lucidity ), but it backfired big time. I instantly became 'dizzy', fell, and hit the floor, which felt like very soft rubber, but I slid across it as if it were ice.

I definitely remember all of the feelings that were involved, my only concern was hoping that I wasn't sleep walking, and someone would walk in my room to see me twirling on the spot in my sleep.

Other than that, I've never had any other truly lucid dreams, or felt any physical sensation.

This post has been edited by Raptor: 31 October 2009 - 01:02 AM

[SupeRgirl]

Raptor, on 31 October 2009 - 01:01 AM, said:

Anyway. It was totally surreal, and didn't last for very long, but I definitely had physical sensation. I distinctly remember reaching out to grasp and turn a door handle, then pushing a door open. Also, as I felt myself begin to wake from the dream, I started to spin in very fast circles on the spot (I remembered the same website saying that doing so can help to maintain lucidity ), but it backfired big time. I instantly became 'dizzy', fell, and hit the floor, which felt like very soft rubber, but I slid across it as if it were ice.

That certainly does sound like a lucid experience It's an unmistakable feeling and experience eh. I like your description of how you hit the floor and slid across it like ice.