How do psychedelics and lucid dreaming compare?

I was wondeirng how do psychedelics and lucid dreaming compare? Also, in lucid dreaming, is your thinking affected at all?

 

I lucid dream a lot. You can train yourself to do so. After you wake up try to remember your dream as much as possible. And do that everytime you wake up after a dream... either good or bad. For a while I experienced where I would dream and hear music in my dream that I was listening to while sleeping. It was very nice. But yeah lucid dreaming is great... especially if your having a scary dream you can just say in your dream, "this is too fucked up to be real" and bam you wake up... unscared usually.

 

Mushrooms can be similar to lucid dreaming in higher amounts but overall I'd say they're two different experiences.

DMT, opium, is more of the lucid dream drug...

 

I believe psychedelics are a tool for remembering dreams. I know every time I trip certain situations and thought processes will allow me to recall dreams that I haven't thought about in months and even years. When your trippen, your in a state of lucid dreaming I believe, (makes more sence at night too)

 

err.. when you take drugs, you still remain in reality, so to speak. when you dream, anything can happen, anything could occur. but when on drugs, your body is still bound by physical laws. The way thatpsychedelics are like dreams is often in that daydreams can combine with reality.

 

yeah until you close your eyes. i reallllyy wander off into a super-dreamy-state then. one time when i closed my eyes i saw the devil and i felt like i was starting to become it until i snapped out of it.

 

i think dxm is very similar to lucid dreaming, when you zone out hard and start to really disconnect, and yeah shrooms too in high doses.