I’ve tried and failed to train myself to do it, but I’ve only lucid dreamed twice in my life, both times by accident.

It’s like the ultimate VR sandbox where you can go, do, or create anything you can imagine.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Neuroscientifically speaking, we all experience our own custom hallucination all the time, and ‘reality’ is just the shared aspects of our hallucincations that we agree on.

      https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/577087/neuroscience-perception/

      Or you can go the Taoist route:

      “Once upon a time, I, Zhuangzi, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Zhuangzi. Soon I awakened, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a distinction. The transition is called the transformation of material things.”