Quote Originally Posted by MasterMind View Post
There is research suggesting that dreams and non-physical experiences actually aren't dependent on you being in REM sleep, but rather that your focus of awareness is in another frequency of existence. ...
Interesting theory, MasterMind. I'd like to see some of that research, because I have trouble finding honest and open minded research myself. You address the possibility that our consciousness is not actually a physical phenomenon, i.e. it cannot be linked directly to a specific area of the body or to a certain chemical (although DMT is sometimes referred to as the spirit molecule, and this is also the dream inducing chemical, as far as I understand). So our body stays the same when transitioning from alive to physical death (or to dreams), i.e. does not lose weight when the spirit leaves. That means that consciousness is the focus of awareness/attention of some kind of non-physical into physical reality, thus physical reality might be a big shared lucid dream altogether.

Relating this to the initial question: When 'awake' can be viewed as a big LD, why not have a LD while 'awake'? I don't see anything weird in what you are experiencing, as the only weird thing is experiencing itself. Focusing attention into other realms is not that mystical or uncommon, I think we do that each time we are pondering in memories or in imagination (I mean these realms are not actually stored in the brain, like on a hard drive, but they are accessed through resonance with brain/body frequencies, like MasterMind says). In the end it doesn't matter if you believe in non-physical or would rather call it advanced visualization, the experience of it is a real dream.