Interesting idea Eonnn, to give more importance to subconscious processes (I define the subconscious as all mental processes not held in consciousness at any given moment, for example, how a particular thought might arise spontaneously or how a memory is found when you try to remember). During our Dreamviews bookclub, we read "The Mind Illuminated" by Culadasa, a book about meditation. As he describes it, in meditation, there is the conscious skill of concentration. But there is also a subconscious skill. To maintain attention on the object of meditation, you must set the intention to notice once you've strayed away from the object and to go back to it. Whether you notice you are no longer focused on your breathing but on a memory or not is not a conscious skill, but a subconscious one. Or in any case, that's how he describes it and I am willing to accept it.

So in this way, my meditation practice relies on being aware that meditation is not all conscious. The subconscious is involved and I am aware of it. There is a relationship, not in the sense that my subconscious is an individual entity that I have a friendship with but rather that I send out intentions and respect that it's not a role for my conscious mind.

The application to lucid dreaming is clear: becoming lucid is a subconscious process. The subconscious mind must notice your dreaming state and bring it to your attention.