let me just clear up a few misconceptions first.
usually, whenever you just say “___________ will appear in my hands when i open my eyes” hardly EVER works.
at all.
the point their getting at when they say this is simply “believe it will happen, and it will.”
this is difficult as hell for most people, because dreams are a lot like real life, and i wish i had a Lamborghini every time i walk to school, but it never happens.
usually you should use an outside source to get the things you want, like a vending machine full of weapons or something random like that.
the theory is: you cant do anything resourceful in dreams because you only have knowledge you would normally have.
this is untrue, however.
when it comes to academics, not much i can say there, but physical training it something you can advance yourself in, not muscle training, but things like technique, balance, reaction time, etc.
as long as you have the physical capacity to do the thing your training for, you will retain the abilities you gain in dreams.
kinda like in assassins creed. (guy goes into a machine, sees his ancestor, controls him, starts doin crazy **** like roofjumping, suddenly, he comes out of the machine, and can do all that stuff.)
when you die in a dream, different things go through your head, but all that happens is you wake up.
i’ve learned not even to listen to most people who talk about lucid dreams in RL unless im sure they actually know what their talking about, cause people say things like “oh, if you die in a dream, you die in RL”, etc., random things that dont even make sense.
but inception actually got this right.
unless you know how to numb yourself from pain, your mind will register that pain as real.
you will feel everything.
wether you got shot, hit by a car, stabbed in the chest, etc. 85% of people normally feel all of this in their dream.
nothing partaining to lucid dreaming can kill you.
unless you have a heart attack.
but thats a medical issue, not injury.
in dreams, you feel fear (normally) because your dreams are interpreted as real, therefor, anything in your dream must be real.
even the 75 foot tall spider trying to eat you.
your hearts racing, your running away, cliche horror movie scene, etc., but normally you wouldnt die.
like i said, unless you have a weak heart, your wont die.
yes,technically you can simply change it into whatever you want to, but i dont think when your running from something thats trying to kill you, your suddenly gonna turn around and try to pull a Houdini on him.
nightmares are real, and more so than ever in lucid nightmares, their worse than real life.
trust me, you WILL feel fear some time or another.
and the last cliche, (i hope) is this:
your dream is simply an interpretation of your mind.
everything inside is is simply abstracted together by your mind, none of it remains the same.(certain dreamscapes will reoccur, just like reocurring dreams, you CAN go back there if you know what the area looks like.)
the dreamscape isnt some giant magical box where you shove every little thought you have into it until it becomes a clusterf*ck of thoughts that stay there forever.
think realistically.
a dream is only:
A: a memory, or a scene based on a memory.
B:an interpretation of your thought that your mind translates into a scene for you to run around in.
therefor, unless you memorize an entire scene that you’ve created, you cannot create your own city, but like i said, there is a way (above sentence.)
you can create your own dreamscape by slowly adding things to it, but you have to remember everything in it to ever go back to it, which is why you have a dream journal to describe every detail, or if your an artist, you can draw it.
and let me just say this, i have known very few people to actually visualize an entire dreamscape and simply go there, but then again im talking specifics, where everything is exactly where its supposed to be.
now onto your questions:
1:
every sensory organ you have in RL is active while dreaming, hearing, sight, feeling, smell, and taste (this one is fleeting, rarely ever happens in natural dreams)
2:a lucid dream can last from a few seconds to weeks on end, it depends on chemical levels in the body (melatonin, serotonin, etc), chance, technique (speedsolving) and a lot of others, which is why its just easier to say, its pretty much random every time.
3:unless your desperate, i would yell to the sky WAKE UP!!!.
just seems wierd.
there are natural ways to exit lucid dreams, if you start breathing heavier than usual, your body releases the WSP, and i know someones gonna say “what about the noseplug RC??(hold your nose and breath, if you still can, your dreaming)”
well, your lungs in your physical body and your dream body are connected, although your dream self has his nose plugged, your physical body doesnt, therefore your always breathing normally.
until you start breathing heavily, and wake yourself up.
just dont start hyperventilating.
also, simply choosing to wake up is a bit cliche i guess, i mean how could you simply decide, “hey i wanna wake up!” and then it happens?
there are ways to do it, ive done it before, but it rarely ever happens when you want it to.
4:already answered, if you have the physical capacity, any skill other than muscle training is retained.
5:certain foods like bananas have helpful chemicals in them to raise awareness and other cool things to help you get into a lucid dream, and stay there longer, not sure about any supplements so could anyone else gimme a hand here?
6:already answered, most of the time, pain’s real, when you die, you wake up.
your not gonna be in a coma.
7:you cant die in dreams.
theoretically speaking.
8:the most helpful RC would probably be the noseplug one.
whenever you pass under a doorway, just plug your nose and breath in, normally if your in a dream, you can breath perfectly fine.
if not, so sorry, you cant go flying out the window just yet.
…unless you really want to.
9:already answered, unless you have created your own dreamscape, and memorized it, no. (like i said before, if you want a GENERAL dreamscape, a.k.a, no godlike specifics, you can conjure that up.)
but you can build onto a building and then conjure up godzilla to break it down.
10:conjuring isnt normally the best method, see now there are 2 kinds of dream techniques, i believe this theory was created by toxsychor, not sure if thats spelled right either.
Active dream control:
when you have complete control over what goes on in a dream, you can conjure up things, kill people with one touch, and cause things to explode with your mind.
this is the exact opposite of RL, therefor, your dream will be LESS CLEAR.
this is not exactly the best kind of dream control, because your vision might be hazy, lucidity to a minimum, pretty much just a bad LD overall if you use this too much.
Passive dream control:
where everything has a reason behind it, you got your kickass bat wings from a guy on the side of the street selling them, you got your gun from a vending machine on the side of the street, and the giant king cobra got there because a mad scientist was conducting expieriments using radiation.
this is where everything you do or get comes from a reasonable place, you didnt just conjure it up like a freakin wizard.
this is normally the greatest dream control method, because it will be so similiar to waking life (minus the guns, wings, and giant lizard) that it will be nearly if not clearer than you reading this message right now.
generally high lucidity, clear vision, pretty much the ideal dream.
but there is one key to all this:
INTENT.
intent is where you focus your belief into something that will happen (A.K.A. expecting it to really badly)
as in expected a vending machine full of grenades or something random to be around the corner when you walk around the corner.
like when you walk into your living room, grab the remote and sit down, you expect your tv to be there.
you know, that’d be wierd if it wasnt there.
11: that would be chalked up to these factors:
chance.
lucidity level.
dream reality.
Chance:
this definition is pretty obvious.
Lucidity level:
the overall focus that you have, if your completely conscious of whats going on, you know your dreaming, and that your about to be eaten by a sea monster, you’ve got great lucidity.
if your visions unclear, you hardly have any control of whats going on, and you dont really know whats happening, you’ve got bad lucidity.
Dream reality:
the overall realness of dreams, like i said before,
Active: dream GODLINESS/bad lucidity.
Passive: street warrior, general badassness/good lucidity.
sorry for the long post, had LOTS to explain