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by Broken_Hippo 2868 days ago
Simple. They don't. My stream of thought during a lucid dream isn't much different from my stream of thought during normal, sober waking hours - it is just the stuff going on around me is weird and I have different constraints on what is possible.

On psychedelics, I view the world and myself differently. I know I'm on drugs. My stream of thought is different I'm obviously still in my house, for example, and I know I can't fly or make things appear out of thin air. By the time any hallucinations would be dream-like (strong and heavy), I freaking know I'm hallucinating. Even with lighter things (much more common), I know it is a hallucination. I know that my painting doesn't really move like that, for example.