Quote Originally Posted by dolphin View Post
The way I see it, the core of what makes us lucid is knowledge. If we know everything we need to know during a dream to be lucid, we'll be lucid. If anything that made us lucid were not knowledge, that something would not be able to be learned, unless we were able to learn something that was not knowledge. To learn something, we create that new knowledge by creating a combination of our old knowledge to create the new knowledge.

I figure to know we are dreaming during a dream, during the dream, roughly we have to know:
1)we are in a situation
2)what a dream experience is like
3)the situation we are in is a dream

If we don't understand certain things, we can break those things down into simpler things to learn.
With respect, I couldn't disagree more. Knowledge is a useful tool, but what you need for lucidity is not knowing, it's being. Presence. Knowledge can even get in the way sometimes, as you're either in your mind with knowledge, or you're in your body with presence. Knowledge is helpful but not absolutely necessary for lucid dreams, after all, children often dream lucidly. Presence, however, is necessary.