What Lucid Dreams Look Like

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What Lucid Dreams Look Like

Eye tracking reveals the answer
By Susana Martinez-Conde on September 7, 2018
Scientific American

The experience felt as real as life, and my oculomotor system probably opined the same. A new study on lucid dreaming, published in Nature Communications last month, has found that we make certain kinds of eye movements when we dream that also occur when we view actual objects, but not when we imagine them.

The eye movements in question are called “smooth pursuit,” and as their name indicates, we use them to track objects in motion: a ball rolling on a playground, a boat sailing against the horizon, or a flock of birds flying in formation. One fascinating aspect of smooth pursuit eye movements is that you can’t fake them. You can use smooth pursuit to track an actual moving object, but not an imagined one. You can convince yourself with a little experiment, which you can perform on your own or with the assistance of a partner, as follows:  

I've noticed this happens during projection once I hit a certain depth even though I'm stil half her and half there.

But more importantly it implies that people might actually be seeing something real in lucid dreams. I've had a theory that during projection photons are actually being transferred to the retina from the place you're projecting too via whatever the remote connection is.


But more than that, I've had two confirmed "dream geists" where I FULLY BELIEVED I was just lucid dreaming but then it turned out it was real. That to me is evidene to consider the possibility that the reason you see smooth pursuit during lucid dreams might be because what you're seeing is actually real. Probably not in every case but certainly some because I highly doubt I'm the only person to confirm a dream geist/projection like that.