Thread: Semi-Lucid? - The Levels of Lucidity

first off, let me say i agree wholeheartedly with the above two posts.

Originally Posted by Purebred

I don't believe there are levels of lucidity. You are lucid or not, and quality depends on techniques performed the moment after becoming counscious. For example, you end up in your room and you barely understand that you are dreaming, your vision is blurry, so you touch everything around, rub your hands, look at something from a very close distance and your lucid becomes "high level".

Although, there are cases where you don't fully understand that you are dreaming, and your awareness level is too low to become lucid.

disagree. sort of. stabilizing techniques definitely change the overall quality of the dream, so we agree that this is a definite range? then we are merely discussing this range. yes, i was lucid and no i was not is too black and white. lucidity is awareness of the dream and clarity of consciousness. there are most definitely levels of awareness. the fact that there is a layer zero where a lot of dream content is about lucidity yet you dont become lucid is helpful in discussion and seeing where one is on the path.

but really, one shouldnt take all this too seriously. as mentioned above it is very fluid and "levels of lucidity" are certainly pretty subjective.

however, i would like to propose the possibility of a simple system that is something like LD0 (non lucid but w/ lucid content) - LD10 (ultra supreme clarity and awareness)

these numbers don't entirely coincide with the reece jones layers, but they dont really need to. 1-10 is a pretty universally recognizable scale, right?

i mean i know i can give a lot of my LDs overall scores, even if i go non-lucid or have fuzzy moments, you can kind of tally it up or make a note of your current level. i certainly dont want to start any kind of banal LD pi$$ing contest (MY LD10 PWNS YOUR LD0 NEWB!) though.

just putting that out there...