Thread: Options when becoming lucid

This is kind of a product of thinking about another thread but I will chuck it here to prevent the other thread from clunking up.

I am wondering if your course of action at becoming lucid (for "becoming lucid", for argument's sake, I'm going to say is when you think you might be dreaming, then have done a RC to prove it) can affect your chances of becoming lucid more often in future. I would like to find out myself by pursuing each course of action but I don't have enough days in my life left to do all the experiments worth doing, so I have to ask for the opinions of other LDers and rely on their experiences.

There are three scenarios, on becoming lucid:

1) You commit to something absolutely amazing that doesn't resemble your non-lucids. Eg, you go to a foreign planet that doesn't resemble earth at all, you fly around and use the full extent of special powers possible in lucid dream.

2) You take a passive course of action; you make sure your lucid dream is not very different from your non-lucids - maybe you walk around just observing, not interacting much. Perhaps it could be said that you are almost so passive that you risk losing lucidity.

3) You set one big, simple goal and you pursue it. What I am thinking of is this: You could pursue the goal of setting the lucid world you're in on fire. You pursue the simple goal of making as much fire as you can.

Would any one of these three scenarios be more likely to lead to more lucid dreams in the long term or does your behaviour once lucid not make any difference, long term?

My reasoning behind number 3 is as follows: When you realise you're in a dream, that moment of realisation only lasts a split second and then you go on to enjoying the lucid dream; behaviour that possibly isn't related to realising you're dreaming, which is something you want to happen in the long term. With the "pursue fire" idea, you are focused on one idea. (To keep reminding yourself you are dreaming by self talk ("This is a dream") may work just as well, of course.)