Originally Posted by
Sageous
These days I too tend to stay lucid at some level until I wake up, though I will admit that I still will occasionally lose or intentionally abandon my lucidity during the dream as well... and this is only after many years of developing my skills and learning to maintain lucidity as a matter of course (in other words, it hasn't always been this way for me).
As long as I'm here: Respectfully, Memm, why, if you have no experience losing lucidity during a dream, are you advising on how not to lose lucidity during a dream? Shouldn't you have "been there" a few times and adopted a working method for maintaining lucidity before telling others how to deal with it? This is sort of like a "natural" inventing an induction technique (why would someone who has never needed a technique know anything about techniques, or even care about them, much less invent one?).
Also, I've found (as have many others) that considering your dream body as real, and your dream as reality -- be it "current" or not -- essentially prioritizes the dream above actual reality (the fact that all this is a dream, and that your actual body is elsewhere). Such an attitude generally risks, perhaps welcomes, non-lucidity, which is the state where you literally know everything is real. Yes, there is a difference between what you describe and NLD reality, and I understand it well, but that difference is indeed subtle. This stance might work for you, which is fine (and actually pretty cool). But keep in mind that many people just learning about this art might not share your ability to understand that the place you are in is "just" a dream while simultaneously calling it real... that kind of subtlety of self-awareness is admirable, sure, but it is also decidedly rare.
Also, if I can dare to advise at this point: I've found that doing without a DC body during LD's generates far more flexibility and control, dramatically raising your ability to do anything you want to do, then remaining in a DC body can offer. After all, if you have a body in a dream, then you also have to overcome the perceptions of physical limitations that accompany that DC body; that's doable, of course, but why bother? Part of achieving this "no DC body" condition, BTW, is remembering where your actual body is sleeping (no need to think about it, just remember!), and remembering that this entire dream world is an aspect of you and your imagination, and is by no means real.
Sorry about any apparent harshness here, Memm; it was not intended. This is really not about you. I guess I've been seeing one of the more successful (and simplest) methods of maintaining and enhancing lucidity -- remembering that your actual body is still asleep in bed, and this dream body is not it -- has been getting knocked about quite a bit on the forums these days, to the point where even mentioning remembering your dream body is seen as incorrect, and your post was simply the last straw for me.
I seem to be rambling, and drifting off topic, so I'll shut up now.
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