Thread: Luring dreams to capture them seems more efficient than chasing them

To become lucid is to catch a dream while it's happening. But, there's two ways to catch something. You can chase whatever you're trying to catch until it's close enough where you can capture it, or you can lure it until it's close enough to capture. It seems like chasing would require a lot more energy than luring so it seems like luring would be the way to go.

It seems like naturals put little to no effort into lucid dreaming while the rest of us put more energy into catching dreams with less success. Since luring takes less energy than chasing, naturals must lure dreams rather than chase them in order to capture them while they're happening.

So, what are dreams lured by? Calmness perhaps? Dreams only come to us when we're calm enough to sleep. If we lose this calmness they seem to stay away. During a dream, if you stay calm, the self-awareness and memory needed to lucid dream seems to come easier, bringing the dream even closer to you. If you're not calm, these things are harder to grasp. After the dream, this calmness even make the dream come back to you like a boomerang, making them easier to capture when trying to get back into them or when trying to recall them.

So it seems like a great way to catch dreams as they're happening and after they happened is to simply lure them by staying calm enough until they're close enough to be captured easily.