I see, naturally, a great deal of attention being paid here to the question of lucidity but very little, that I can see, attention paid to what you are going to do with it if you achieve it.

If you achieve it that doesn't mean, in my estimation, that you can pay no attention to the "meaning" of things in your dreams -- the really hard work of dreaming.

You, may, for instance, desire to "fly" if you achieve lucidity, but that may well mean you are "flying away from something" that is too difficult to deal with, "lucid" or not.

In the rush to lucidity I see a general flight away from the meaning of the dream, and perhaps, the matter of conscience in dreams, certainly the matter of pain.

Just because you are lucid, as in the largely evil movie Inception, does not mean you can shoot somebody. "Lucidity" does not disassemble the laws of individual human conscience. If you stab yourself in a "lucid" dream and feel nothing immediately afterward does not mean that you won't at another time in your life.

My point being there is an emphasis here on "lucidity" as a thing in itself, like a computer with more power than somebody else's but little attention being given to what this power is for, the much more important question.

I have been "lucid" in the dream state for up to two hours at a time but always with a purpose, a reason arranged around increasing human control in the unconscious, fighting those forces that desire us to sleep, etc. I would like to see more attention given to the reasons for achieving "lucidity" and less on the "muscle tone" it gives my "avatar" as a dreamer.

Hummer