Eonnn,

I have practiced meditation for decades simultaneously with lucid dreaming experimentation. And they are both useful tools for accessing these states of awareness. I would say that they access it from slightly different directions. Just as meditation can become such a natural part of your awareness that you can slip into the meditative state at any time, so too once one is adept at lucidity the state can be slipped into at will. I believe that the goal of meditation is to maintain the meditative state 24/7. The peaceful bliss continues during wakefulness and sleep without interruption. The world is seen through the eyes of the meditator rather than the person meditating.

JJ