If you're new, start here...

http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...d-dreamer.html
http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...r-day-0-a.html

Ok, I've been doing a rewrite of the previous stuff, but hopefully days 7, 8, and 9 still make sense without having to reread everything up until now. One of the main concepts that's expounded upon is the idea of the "mental construct" version of reality. We start out with this idea and explore the first exercises in relation to it. This is part of the explanation from the new Day 1...

The brain, so it would have us believe, has better things to do than continuously update our perception of reality. It’s only when something unexpected or out of place occurs that the brain begins to refresh our vision. This is the reason that moments of surprise (good or bad) tend to be remembered with more clarity and detail. The brain is actually paying attention to what is going on.

In a non-lucid dream, we find the same thing happening. Rather than seeing the reality of the dream world, we’re simply viewing a mental construct. We’re moving and operating in a mental space. When we become lucid, the construct disappears and we begin to truly see the dream for the first time, recognizing where we are. In Exercise 1, we are learning to see beyond any kind of mentally generated construct of physical reality. We are learning to see reality as it really is. This is a crucial and foundational skill that subsequent exercises build upon and that we’ll eventually be using to become lucid in our dreams.