YOU want total control, and to achieve it you would entirely stamp out the rest of your Mind. You could hardly expect that your Mind -- the 90% of it that isn't involved in the Grandiose Delusions of your Conscious Persona -- that your Mind would appreciate your Self Destructive impulses and your attack on Dream Contend and the ordinary Dream Dynamics.[/b]
I have read a post of yours on the Newbie forum and how dreaming should really just be viewed as 'real' that is go with the flow of it and let it be. While LD is a premlinary exercise. I must admit I was intrigued with that thought. According to science, everything in the universe prefers to use less energy. And I notice when I try to become lucid and aware, it requires a great deal of energy then just simply letting the "ordinary Dream Dynamics" take place.

I must admit again, I like your view on trying not to become an enemy of your own mind. But should I treat my subconscious and conscious as two different identities or is it really one?

I want to achieve lucidity to get to know more of myself. To get in touch with that deeper self--spirituality. I don't see how it is self destructive to gain control of a dream and explore the purpose of me and making myself a better person. Otherwise, this has all been fruitless and the concept of dream control and lucidity is in essence a sin against my own mind and being. And the main reason why I was so hard on myself in saying that "I will have control in my dreams" was to make myself confident and follow Yoda's advice -- don't try...do!

Now how would one stamp out the rest of the mind? I honestly don't want to do that. So basically I don't want to be an 'enemy' of my subconscious. How would you suppose then that I go about in doing this the correct way? How did you do it in your life?