Thought on how we become lucid.

[siuol]

I often see that people are discouraged in how they have dreams of highly illogical events yet they are unable to realize they are dreaming. It is true that these things would not be normal, if we did not have similar experiences every night in our sleep. I looked at some of my personal experiences and speculated that we always know we are dreaming on a subconcious level, however we pay no attention to that conciously because our minds view dreaming as a normal occurence, and we are so absorbed in a dream like we would with a good movie or book. In my experience lucidity feels less like noticing an oddity, and more of noticing the thought that i am dreaming, and calling it into attention. I feel that achieving lucidity often depends not on how often the thought that "i am dreaming" comes up, but when you realize what that means (have you ever had a dream of being lucid but weren't actually lucid), and the more thought you put into that realization the better the quality of the lucid. The more lucids you have, the better you get at recognizing the idea and not just letting it pass by without impacting you. does anyone have any thoughts or anything that can support/disprove this? (i wrote about this a long time ago, however i read it and feel i did a horrible job of putting my thoughts into words so decided to write an improved version.)