Quote Originally Posted by skuthepoo View Post
I'm just thinking I'd rather be doing amazing things in waking life than just living them out in dreams. I think lucid dreaming will be something for me to practise at while I'm on holiday away from home without my creative mediums. Discuss.
The difference here is that you think that an experience is more valid in waking life than in real life, however most people think they are equal on this forum. Considering that I have done things in lucids that I will never be able to do in real life, I can't even come close to them, lucids give my life an aspect of extreme excitement. After you have stopped any action it all just becomes a memory, and all you are doing when thinking back on memories is re-experiencing them in your brain, so whether these memories are from an internal or external source they are interpreted the exact same way. At the end of my life I would much rather think about all the times I flew through the amazon, teleported to different worlds, made my own lifeforms than the few times I went doing some kind of exciting real life activity.
Now just because lucids are amazing doesn't mean you have to sacrifice real life for them, there is a healthy balance and as zoth showed you are not actually wasting any time at all.
It's up to you what to believe but for me life is about experience and there is no better medium for experience than a really good lucid dream.