Closing my eyes in a lucid dream

[Mew3692002]

In a lucid dream I just had this morning, I realized something. I realized I could close my eyes while in a dream and still stay in the same setting with little to no changes. I've always heard that when you close your eyes in a lucid dream, you tend to wake up but in my experience, that did not happen. What happened was I experienced darkness just as if I closed my eyes but when I opened them, nothing had changed (maybe a character moved a little bit) and I had not woken up. Anyone else experience this in their lucid dreams?

[Anagogy]

They also say light switches don't work in dreams. But they work in my dreams. Guess the rules aren't set in stone are they?

[pianoperformer]

Maybe they aren't dreams. *plays twilight zone music*

[Reality Handbook]

Originally Posted by Mew3692002

In a lucid dream I just had this morning, I realized something. I realized I could close my eyes while in a dream and still stay in the same setting with little to no changes.

I've been rather astonished in dreams at being able to still see with my eyes closed. In this dream, I did a series of experiments to test it with a partner...though it wasn't the first time it had happened, it was the first time I really focused on it:

realityhandbook: Seeing With My Eyes Closed

Lightswitches and light levels can be unpredictable and I'd say they usually don't work right or behave coherently. But I've found lamps that held up surprisingly well, and remarked about it:

realityhandbook: Planets rotating counter to the direction of gravity.

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[Mew3692002]

I never really experimented with light switches but one of my dream signs last night was a malfunctioning traffic light so I know that some things don't work as they should in my dreams, it's always interesting to see that things that others claim behave a certain way in dreams tend to not really work that way at all.

[xhironakamurax]

My friend said the other day that he could read books, like full H.P. Lovecraft books...

[Blueskied]

One thing is true: Technical gadgets don't work in (lucid) dreams. Ever took a look at your watch or tried to use your cell phone? This stuff looks really weird in the dream land.

[Mew3692002]

Yeah, I agree, all the technical stuff tends not to work too well, except for video games for some reason.

[sgregory]

I think I remember reading in a dream, but then again, it's not *really* reading because a book cannot exist verbatim in your brain unless you've read it a thousand times, right? It has to be you remembering parts of what you've already read or maybe even your own thoughts in a book form.

[Wax Frog]

Originally Posted by Anagogy

They also say light switches don't work in dreams. But they work in my dreams. Guess the rules aren't set in stone are they?

They never work in my dreams. I was afraid of the dark (or more precisely, what might have hidden in it) as a child, and this featured prominently in my nightmares, so I suspect a carryover effect. I have set aside my LD inducing efforts for now, but I did nearly have one triggered by just such a failure not long ago.

I did remember to spin once in an LD (I've had very few) and experienced a strange visual shearing effect.

[Mew3692002]

I never think of spinning in my dreams, although I distinctly remember calling on my guardian angel in my dream to help me to manifest a anthropomorphic rabbit (never did complete calling for it because of a scene change).