Sure, thank you. There is a theory around that focusing too much on your surroundings, although great for many things, can pull you away from lucidity once you are lucid in a dream. You could become lucid and get so wrapped up in all of the awesome things that you are seeing that your self-awareness is reduced and you can revert to continuing the dream non-lucid, goes the theory. I have definitely lost lucidity before without waking up but I feel that my work on self-awareness usually prevents that. To be honest, when I have lost lucidity it seems like it is usually a tricky false awakening, real awakening or I just wasn't very self-aware or strongly lucid in the dream to begin with which makes me question the theory a bit. On the flip side, my practice thus far has been more skewed towards the self-awareness end of the spectrum than my surroundings in a lucid dream, so I haven't had many opportunities to get lost in my lucid dream so perhaps the theory stands just fine in my personal experience. As a side note, since returning to lucid dreaming in adulthood after a number of decade's absence I have naturally found more wonder and amazement in my waking world. An example that ties into day/chapter 7 is my fascination with the idea of "shadows from diffused light" about a week ago which may have also been nudged to the forefront by your previous exercises. Such shadows are something I have seen and kept going past many times before, but I am now truly seeing it and acknowledging it. Months back I found fascination with light in other ways, basically paradigm shifts that I directly attribute to experiences I have had while lucid dreaming. Do a google search for "shadows from diffused light" or "shadows from diffuse light" in *quotes* as shown and you will get less than 1 page of results currently showing it is not something to commonly be mentioned or thought about. I find this fascinating as well since it has never been pointed out to me and I am far from a genius, though probably a bit above average. Your leaden body exercise brought more focus towards self-awareness but surprisingly as I went a long I was seeing/feeling both my body movements and my surroundings in a new light which made me quite giddy. (no time to clean up that mess of writing, hopefully not tldr)
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