Thread: lucidity to do what?

Originally Posted by Tygar

Personally I don't feel I must have a deep spiritual, intellectual or emotional reason for my pursuit of lucid dreaming. I find joy in the pursuit of, as well as the success of the achievement of finding myself in a lucid dream. This is a hobby for me. A hobby with many rewards and opportunities for self improvement.

Four days ago I had a lucid dream where I witnessed the most beautiful sunset I have ever seen in my entire life. Then I swam in the ocean. I recorded this dream in my dream journal and can go back and read it, and recapture a bit of that joy each time. Isn't simply adding joy to ones life enough of a reason for achieving lucidity?

That... That.. That was beautiful Q__Q

I need to copy and paste that somewhere, so I can refer to it whenever someone comes to me for advice about lucid dreaming in Waking Life.

Twitch--
Don't think I said lucidity was evil or anything like it. I did and am saying that I think it can or could be used, by the unscrupulous, in evil ways.

I think Inception demonstrates such unscrupulous uses of a kind of lucidity.

In general I think lucidity a good thing, positive advance. etc., though it is ancient.

In some of my first posts, perhaps what you are referring to, I said lucidity could be used, could be used to avoid certain difficult situations as in The Matrix when Cypher uses it in a such a fashion -- not that The Matrix is about dreaming, mind you, it's not, it's about computers.

That's another story.

Hummer

SinisterDezz
You cite a post from somewhere, not, I don't think to this thread, that Tygar mentioned a dream in which she was swimming at sunset in some body of water. You use this as an example of the absolute value of "lucid dreaming."

Okay, in this form of LD various forms of dream inquiry are dropped because it is supposedly 'lucid."

Here are some questions I would ask Tygar about this dream:

Why a sunset? Is this place where you see this sunset something in your normal or real landscape? Why is it evening? Why are you swimming?

What body of water is this? Do you know what body of water this is?

Aphrodite is beautiful, she rises from the sea foam, but what she rises from is NOT beautiful. Is that connection possible here?

These are among the questions I would have about this dream. Lucidity does not banish them.

Hummer