Thread: Definition of lucidity

Lucidity when used in the context of dreams just refers to whether within the dream, you are aware that you are dreaming. I think I speak for most of us here when I say when I'm awake, I know for certain I'm awake, but when I'm sleeping I'm usually pretty sure I'm awake but not entirely.

The following is a mishmash of things I've heard from tutorials, people on the forum, and my own logic.

The logic center is surpressed while dreaming, which explains why everything can get so screwey and why you accept or make excuses for those crazy things and not even question what's going on. When you're awake, the logic center is fully functioning and, as you look around, argues constantly to you that since everything makes sense and is consistent with reality, you can't be dreaming. Since when we're awake we always operate under the assumption that we're awake, that transfers to our dreams and until our logic center sounds an alert we continue that assumption. However since our logic center isn't completely "off" we have a little uncertainty that we really are awake.

There are a lot of people who, to DILD, constantly practice awareness, observation and questioning of their surroundings in waking life, hoping that they'll continue to practice this habit in their dreams. If they stop, look around their dream, and question what's going on, they give more chances for their logic center to perk up and sound an alert.