Okay, thanks for that response .

So basically, we cannot control our subconscious nor can we access it at will. But the information and memories are there, aren't they? Like the chemistry problem from two years ago, or the book that we read, or the passage we skimmed - so we cannot access this at will, but doesn't our subconscious have it stored somewhere?

If we reread a book, then we will find parts of it familiar, even if there is no way we would ever be able to consciously think up those parts. The fact that it is familiar, doesn't that indicate that it is stored in our subconscious?

Okay, so assume that our subconscious can store tons of information (more than what we consciously can think of). Are you sure there is no way to access this at will? I mean, I understand if you can't just sift through your subconscious's database of information, but can you ask a DC or DG what that is? Or to "control your subconscious," you tell a DC/DG to solve the math problem?


Some other clarifications and questions:

11. Experience blindness as if you'd never been able to see (maybe you "forget" what sight is or something)

Sure, you can be blind in your dreams. It's the same as seeing total blackness.

Yes, but I mean in the sense of Question 18.

16. *Note: for this next thing, assume that all piano practice time in a dream is equally as efficient in the real world. Your perception of time in ld's is weird, but if you practice piano for what you perceive to be two weeks, then either (a) you feel like you have been playing for two weeks straight but have only really been playing for an hour (REM/dream time in real world) and thus you only have the skill of an hour of playing or (b) you still feel like you have been playing for two weeks because you actually were, in the dream (i.e., time was extended) and you have the skill of two weeks, whereas in real life you were only dreaming/REMing for an hour. Which actually occurs, (a) or (b)?

Dreams distort time, but you're never going to have a 2 week long dream, that's hella long. The time you spend in dreams practicing will absolutely help you in real life.

Okay, even if it's not two weeks, it could be any amount of time longer that what you actually dream. Despite what your perception of time would be, this would show what actually is - try rereading the two cases.

17. An experiment - just spend awhile counting at the same rate of seconds, and remember the number you get up to. Then when you wake up you can prove that you had a dream for longer-than-actual dream time. You'd have to count for hours lol, but it might be worth it. Or I guess if any of this subconscious stuff is possible, have your subconscious count for you lol. Also, if one does this, could false memories affect how I count? Maybe I spontaneously skip to 4572345 and have the memory that I have been counting that entire time - or can false memories occur in lucid dreams?

Jesus, now you're getting into crazy shit. Your subconscious cannot be accessed at will, sorry. And yes, you can have false memories. You don't need to count in a dream to know it's distorted with real time, I can tell you that it is.

Forget the subconscious part lol. If there was no false memories or alteration, you could physically measure how long you are in the dream compared to how long you REM/dream in real life. It's not just what you "perceive as time" - that can be altered by false memories/etc.