I'm pretty sure most LDers frequently dream about LDing, thinking about it or conversing about it with a DC. (I've heard them called 'layer 0' lucid dreams).

It seems likely to me that dreams tend to involve LD content after thinking about LDing the previous day for the same reason they would tend to involve carnival content the night after going to a carnival.

But I've heard it implied that some of these dreams can be explained differently, that the cause is actually the subconscious trying to induce an LD, giving you 'hints' that you're dreaming.

This explanation seems to make sense in some cases, but I have a hard time accepting it, because it doesn't seem the subconscious would be so sneaky and isolated from the conscious mind, like they're separate people trying to communicate to one another. Do you think it's likely that this really happens?