Yes I tried the regular meditation, with sitting position and trying to keep the attention on the breath and try to reach non-thought. It is very boring and demanding. And utterly ineffective. To be still is something of an exercise to me. But I don't deny the validity and benefits possible if one masters the practice. But still, the meditative state is a non-doing, so "practicing" meditation is kind of counter-intuitive and a "doing" that blocks the meditative state. The state can be achieved by many other methods, not only meditation.

There are levels of lucidity in the dreaming state. The lowest possible would be that of the normal dream, on which we are mere spectators of random events with some motif of our unconscious being processed into our awareness, for we to be able to keep in touch to our deep being. On this post http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...ing-dream.html I try to explain the two kinds of different possibilities within the dream realm. I state that the regular uncontrolled/spectator-mode dream is not actually the dream experience per se but the recollection of memories we form from the dream experience in the moment right before waking.