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  1. Very occasionally I have lucid dreams where I become 100% aware I'm dreaming, but remain in the dream state. Often I just mess around always seem to enjoy levitating and attempting to climb altitude. I try to get the attention of the various bystanders in my dream. Sometimes they freak out for a short period of time then other times they act like its nothing: me levitating and flying around. One lucid dream I, I noticed how real everything felt, and thought let me test this out. I thought myself to be in a forest at the bank of a river... possibly somewhere in the NW USA. It was a river in a forest with some sandy mud banks. I began the test to see if I could notice mess ups in this "simulation". I heard birds chirping, smell of pine trees that fishy mossy smell of the river, the sun glinting through the trees, I put my face to the sun and felt that warmth as I closed my eyes and that typical sheen of brighter toward the light and darker facing away with closed eyes. I decided to test the water sensation, I walked in to the water, put my hands and arms into the water, reached into the water to the ground and dug deep into the sandy mud and pulled out some... it was very sandy, and pulled it out of the water and extruded it through my hands... water felt like water, smelt like water, mud and sand felt like they should. I dropped the mud and rinsed just my hands off. But left purposefully left the mud sand on my arms, I was testing to see if the drying sensation would differ or not form reality. It dried rather quickly. I scraped some of it off. I got out of the water. Water dripped from my legs. A few things I noticed though, many of the things I expected to see as I was testing the observations would reveal themselves usually when I was searching for them... okay: what do I hear: Birds chirping, the water sound of the river stream... the sun how's that feel... warmth... Occasionally though some things (very few) would cause me to notice them before I thought about them: the mossy smell suddenly caught me off guard and thought wow, I even smell the fishy mossy river smell, and then noticed a breeze of wind that starting causing the trees to gently move. I did some other things, and noticed though that weren't quite right: the mud/sand dried and was more like just dried sand from a beach on my arm. And not much of it remained after I just scraped off a little. In reality, without washing it all off, I would be shedding sand all day long. Oh, and I don't recall any insects... I didn't think about seeing them either. But what I did experience fell incredibly real. I thought even during the lucid dream and still today how amazing it was that my mind is simulating all of this. But makes sense... it is only through our senses and ultimately our our mind that we experience anything. I have read that brain scan imaging reveals we experience recalling sounds identically to actually hearing them. So when get a song stuck in your head, whatever your brain remembers of that song, then your brain is literally playing it as if you're actually hearing it.
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