I did a search and didn't find a post which asks:
Are we meant to lucid dream?

Nature is a very complex force that always seems to (when not interfered with) have a way of keeping things balanced. I can't think of any great examples at the moment - but it's kinda like how when we get frightened or excited our body shoots up adrenalin so that we may have the energy to flee or act quickly. Or how we sweat when our bodies overheat. Dogs don't have sweat glands, so nature/evolution gave them a different way of cooling their bodies. They pant which helps cool the blood in their tongues. Other animals use the sun to regulate their blood temp, etc. (you get the idea?)

Anyway...

What I was wondering is, why the hell is it so damn hard to become conscious while in a dream? Could it be that maybe we're not supposed to have this ability? Are some poeople just lucky or "gifted" in achieveing lucidity so easily? What harm could come from it should we continue trying?

Whether or not we were meant to LD, there's no way in hell I'm going to stop trying. I just wondered if anyone else out there thought about this.

I like to think that many years, decades, or even centuries from now all this self discovery will lead to a new age. Just like the ages of "Reason" and "Enlightenment", there will be an age of "Self-Conciousness" or something of that nature. Today's DVers will someday be looked back upon as the way-before-pre-founding fathers of this age - probably like we see cavemen today. I guess I could live with that.... (as long as they don't depict me hunched over wearing some loincloth!)