 Lucid dreaming does feel like reality in some ways, but in a lot of ways it's also very different to reality and What a lot of people don't realize is that it's although it you're using your conscious mind to experience a lucid dream That doesn't mean it's exactly like base reality or you know what you're experiencing right now So there's kind of a distinction although you're in both Situations right now as you're watching this video and in a lucid dream You are I guess you could say present right your consciousness is grounded and you know your isn't you know It's you experiencing that thing It's very difficult to define consciousness by the way, but you know that it's you experiencing that moment At the same time. It's a different Awareness you're aware that you're there and experiencing the moment, but it's different It's not the same as reality and the best way I can think of explaining this is that in reality Like let's say now for example You're aware of this moment you can experience it you can look around and you know see things and interact with things But there's a lot of stability a huge amount of stability because obviously Things don't change around you the scene doesn't change around you in reality in a dream However, it does you know You can be looking at your computer screen and then you look up and now you're in a different city Or you walk down the road you turn around and now you're in a desert these kind of changes don't happen in reality Or at least they don't unless you're hallucinating in some way. So there's a lot of stability, you know Pretty confidently that the scene around you is going to stay pretty stable in reality in a dream. However You don't have that sense of stability So the whole world feels kind of like fluid and changeable Although you're in the center of that as the point of experience the lucid mind It's still unstable even when you're fully lucid you still have this sense that everything or anything could change Any moment around you like the scene could change the building could fall down a dragon could come You know down the street whatever and so in that way It's very different to reality because it lacks that stability that being said the awareness that you do you experience in In both a lucid dream and in reality like for example now They're very similar, but the reality that you're experiencing is different I think that's probably the best way of explaining us, right? So the awareness is similar, but the the reality that the awareness is experiencing is different