Thread: Did I just become lucid or did I dream that I became lucid?

The Tibetans believe that lucid dreaming is essential to reaching enlightenment, and I think they are on to something. Yes, I also feel it is more important than most of us realize. I have the sense that lucid dreaming is to our personality and sense of self more like being the developer/programmer of a computer program than like being a user or player of a game, more like being the potter who creates the clay pot and shapes it than like the person who buys the pot and uses it. I think there is a reason why it does not come naturally to most people and may be hard to attain because lucid dreaming has the potential to change our selves and maybe even change our world, definitely at least our world view. We do not truly understand the nature of dreams yet, but I do believe they are more important than even those of us who take them seriously realize.

Originally Posted by JoannaB

I think there is a reason why it does not come naturally to most people and may be hard to attain because lucid dreaming has the potential to change our selves and maybe even change our world, definitely at least our world view. We do not truly understand the nature of dreams yet, but I do believe they are more important than even those of us who take them seriously realize.

I agree 100% JoannaB The World at the moment is in a perilous state (and I lived through the ColdWar and this is worse) This is truly samsara as the Buddhists say... "an ocean of suffering" I hope I can regularly LD and get beyond just flying around etc. I can but try.