Thread: Lucid goal of maximized awareness only subtle control?

Originally Posted by yuppie11975

Just out of curiosity, Gab. Why do you choose to lead such an partial and passive role in your lucid dreams?
Do you enjoy this approach more than it's counterpart, or what? I seldom hear of people who chose to do this, and it's quite interesting to me.
Perhaps you could enlighten us?

There is nothing partial nor passive about being a lucid explorer of dream world. It is a different mentality than the leading one on this site: control is stressed so much here that some people may think one needs full control for successful experienced lucid dreaming. However, I know that some of the most experienced members have complained that they have issue with having too much control in their dreams and that as a result dreams become not interesting enough and predictable. Personally, I am not there of course, but I can see the advantage of letting subconscious and conscious parts of my mind collaborate instead of my conscious overruling the subconscious. I think the results may be more creative than what I would have done if I had taken control completely. Of course, at this point my goal is just mostly to become lucid again, but got to think ahead to what kind of lucid dreamer I want to become, and gab's style holds an attraction. I still want to eat chocolate and visit the Taj Mahal though.