#isn't that in some ways more incredible than believing that they're real external places

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the fact that lucid dreaming is a skillset we as humans can just like, develop and exercise like any other is WILD to me (pun intended). i was having trouble falling asleep last night, so i just like... induced sleep paralysis and wriggled into a lucid dream. spent the whole time flying around, giving myself sparkly insect wings, and riding a pegasus bc why the hell not. the fact that my brain can spontaneously generate a hyper-realistic simulated reality that i'm then free to hang out in for a bit blows my mind. the fact that i can remember the mundane steps it took to get to this point (learning to induce sleep paralysis, to transition from sleep paralysis to dreaming, developing dream recall, getting consistent enough at lucid dreaming to practice flying, etc) blows my mind. even after years of practice, it still feels like some crazy fantasy novel shit and i can't believe it's just something we can do.

#lucid dreaming #people are always trying to turn it into some paranormal mumbo jumbo like ~reality shifting~ or ~out of body experiences~ but like #isn't it already incredible enough that these worlds are created in an instant by our brains? #isn't that in some ways more incredible than believing that they're real external places? #the places i see in my dreams are so unbelievably beautiful and strange #like the fact that i can't even draw a decent background with sensible shading #but my brain can spontaneously generate a temple made of clouds dynamically lit by the setting sun #it gives me such hope in human potential and creativity #that all of us have something so capable of such effortless creation within us #lucid dreaming makes me lowkey emotional ngl