Hello, I have many discussions I'd like to get into and I decided to put it all on one post:

I have been on several contemplative or wisdom paths for years: Gurdjieff Work, Diamond Approach, Zen meditation... I'm interested in how lucid dreaming can enhance or possibly be a new wisdom path. And I'm talking more about the western techniques and such and not so much the goals of the Buddhist tradition. I'm also wondering if anyone has meditated or have practiced other spiritual techniques during a lucid dream? I recently sat to meditate during one, but it didn't last long.

I'm also interested in how Lucid Dreaming compares to other modern paths that rely on entering highly altered states. For example: hypnosis, LSD or DMT induced states, and deep breathing: such as Holotropic Breathing and Rebirthing. To me, lucid dreaming comes out on top over these other approaches. You're simply your waking self embedded in a naturally altered state! These other approaches cannot do this. This creates a dialectic between the conscious and deep unconscious. It's safer. You don't have to take a drug or alter your breathing in a highly intense and uncomfortable way like Holotropic or Rebirthing breathwork. LD's highly effect focus in waking life for some reason. LD's don't require going to an expensive workshop with an expert to guide you through breathwork or psychotropic states. It's more coherent and much easier to integrate into waking life. There's also a sense of being less attached to the forms of waking consciousness (Buddhist goal). The list goes on and on in my head.
The main con is that it takes time and effort to learn and to get to the point where you can do inner work in dreams.

The other thing is my interest in the clinical utility of lucid dreaming. How come psychiatrists playing with psychotropics is coming back and doing extremely unnatural breathing to induced altered states on the scene, when lucid dreaming as a therapy tool being fringe? I'm a clinical social worker and I'm interested in how LD's can be used. I've already referred an addict who loves taking psychotropics to lucid dreaming.