Thread: Lucid Dreams don't exist!

Sorry, this is not very convincing and too many words used to say fairly obvious things (in my opinion).

"Lucidity" or "lucid dreams" are terms invented to convey certain ideas, a means to communicate the idea of a certain kind of dream. As such these terms are useful, whatever is the reality behind them. There's number of such terms or notions: take for example word "mind". You might argue that there's no thing like mind, only firings of neurons. Still the word "mind" is useful in communication or expressing ideas.

Also lucidity does mean quite specific kind of awareness: awareness of dream state! You can possibly have a dream where you are very aware of the many dream's aspects and still be unaware that you're dreaming. Or you can experience the opposite: you can be aware that you are dreaming, but otherwise your general awareness be quite low.

Let me add that when I had my first LD, it was strikingly different from all dreams I've ever had. For me - terms "LDs" or "lucidity" are valid concepts.

-Tl