Hi,

I was a little confused about this whole notion of high and low-level lucid dreams. A lot of people say that in a high-level lucid, you have a strong sense of self, feeling as awake etc. as you do in reality and the dream itself is completely lifelike or feels even realer than reality. That’s sort of what I’m unsure about -- I mean, self-awareness and dream vividness are completely separate things. I’ve had lucid dreams where I had a strong sense of self, but the dreams were very dim and felt more like a slow virtual reality game than anything else; they certainly did not feel very real. In contrast, I’ve had non-lucids which did feel very real. So I’m not really sure what a high and low-level LD would consist of. It's an interesting idea though; what are your views on it?

Also, on this topic, does your level of self-awareness have any link whatsoever to increasing the quality of a dream? Or is the low quality of some dreams something the lucid dreamer just has to deal with but has no control over?

Thanks.