Posts by Robin Reed5

Anthony Lopez8 said:I realize you are speaking in broad terms, but since lucid dreams are still categorized as dreams, they serve as perfectly valid counterarguments to your claims.😬
I think I follow your logic now. It isn't all that strange; I often find myself waking up a few minutes before my alarm goes off whenever I have to get up early. Your situation is particularly fascinating because it seems your "internal clock" possesses an audible component;😁 your subconscious clearly recognizes whether an alarm has been set or not, simulating the sound only when it anticipates the real thing.😉
There is, of course, the alternative possibility that the alarm actually begins to ring, and you—being quite lazy—simply stay asleep, causing the sound to bleed into your dream state. However, I will rule that out, assuming you check the clock the moment you wake up to see if the alarm just started or if it has been blaring for quite some time.

That is exactly the point; this psychological stuff is far too convincing... 😁
As for me, the moment that alarm hits, I am wide awake, though I suppose even a fly buzzing past my face could probably startle me at this point...

Anthony Lopez8 said:Your post is a bit disorganized, so I might have missed your exact point, but I cannot agree with your bolded assertion—and I suspect anyone else with experience in lucid dreaming won't agree either. For example, I can tell you quite clearly that I had a lucid dream yesterday that lasted over two hours. How do you account for that? 🙂

EDIT: "For instance, if I set an alarm for 8:00 AM while dreaming, I’ll hear something start playing in the dream at 7:55 AM, which then transitions directly into me waking up; it's hard to explain, but the sound starts within the dream and then the actual alarm goes off exactly as it did in the dream, which implies the timing was precisely defined during sleep."

Could you elaborate on that part? I would be genuinely interested to understand the mechanics behind what you're describing. 😁

Well, I wasn't referring specifically to lucid dreams, but rather to dreaming in general... 😁

It is difficult to articulate properly, though... 😁

take this scenario, for instance. Before going to sleep, I set my alarm for 8:00 AM.
Then, I fall asleep and dream normally. During a dream, roughly five to ten minutes before 8:00, something begins to ring. It continues ringing until the moment I wake up. When I finally open my eyes, the physical alarm is still ringing, exactly as it was in the dream... how could the dream "know" that my alarm was scheduled for exactly 8:00, and that the sound should begin in the dream only to transition seamlessly into reality upon waking? I hope that clarifies things somewhat... 🙂
And, conversely, if I do not set an alarm, nothing rings within the dream...

I truly am at a loss as to how to explain this more clearly... 😁

I realize this thread is a bit dated, but I don't see why that should stop us... 😁
I am only fourteen, yet I find myself deeply preoccupied with these kinds of inquiries—physics, chemistry, and the broader spectrum of scientific thought. To my mind, a dream feels like a very precisely structured sequence of thought, one that you only truly grasp once you have regained consciousness. For instance, if I set my alarm for 8:00 AM, I might experience a sound within my dream at 7:55 AM that transitions seamlessly into my actual waking moment... it is difficult to articulate, but the alarm begins to ring within the dream itself, and then I wake up just as the physical device starts its noise, implying that the timing was somehow synchronized within the dream state. Alternatively, perhaps a dream is merely something the mind constructs in the fleeting moments of waking, creating the illusion that we have been dreaming all night long...

I didn't want to clutter the forum by starting an entirely new thread for this, as I find the subject quite captivating and simply wanted to add my thoughts here... 😁