First off, I want to say that it was very hard to think of a logical title for this, but I was throwing a few ideas around that I got from the book and was interested in hearing what other thoughts anyone had on this.
I recently read a series by Robert Sawyer called "WWW" (world wide web). In the book, the main character Caitlin, gets an implant in her eye to cure her blindness, and one of the side effects is being able to see the structure of the World Wide Web, through her eye. She discovers an emergent consciousness that has risen from the content of the web and she finds a way to educate this consciousness,, eventually far beyond any human intelligence. The "being" called itself "Webmind" and it had access to everything on the internet. One day it thought it could increase efficiency by multitasking, consciously trying to concentrate on many things at once to learn at a higher exponential rate. Webmind pretty much crashes himself because consciousness can never truly multitask, it can only switch rapidly back and forth between tasks. He soon understands that he can train his subconscious to learn, download files and understand many different subjects at once, while his conscious mind tends to other matters. It struck me that this may be possible for the human mind to do this almost as efficiently. I then began applying this thought to lucid dreams. Forgive me if this is hard to follow, but I'm trying to explain this the best that I can. Imagine if you created these different areas of thought, or these different "dreamworlds" for each task you would like to work on. Whether it's learning an instrument, or any sort of skill you would like to learn, solving problems, practicing social situations etc. Anything you would like to work on to better your mind. Now imagine you visited each of these places consciously, in a lucid state, each designated for it's own task, and then set the intention for your subconscious to keep working on these tasks while you move onto the next task consciously. You would eventually (theoretically) be able to have multiple areas of your mind, subconsciously working on different tasks while your conscious mind would be able to tend to other matters. I wonder if it would be possible for these subconscious areas of thought to continue through waking life, only for you to return to them consciously in your next lucid dream. I would love to hear anyone's thoughts on this, and maybe we can get some experiments going. I am not able to lucid dream very often as I haven't been really trying to lately, but I would love to see if someone that is very experienced to give it a shot. Let me know what you think guys!