Quote Originally Posted by Sageous View Post
Though this is a fine exercise, I'm not sure I can agree with the premise. In my experience, and in my general understanding of lucidity, lucidity does not equal vividness. You can be extremely lucid in a dream without a hint of vividness, just as you can have an incredibly vivid dream without hint of lucidity. Indeed, spending your time admiring the awesome reality of your dream opens up the risk of lending too much "reality" to the dream, and thus a loss of lucidity.

Perhaps, as one of those outliers who has seen the proven effectiveness of practicing the fundamentals and MILD to enjoy frequent WILD's and DILD's (which are not techniques, BTW, but descriptions of transitions to lucidity), I should not be posting here? Pleas let me know.
Good points! I'm curious to hear the experiences from all levels of dreamers though, so feel free to join in, keeping in mind that we're not at the end yet, we've only just begun. I'm starting to realize that there is a difficulty in asking for feedback on the exercises and premises of those exercises from the get-go. The exercises and the premises of those exercises evolve as the book progresses.