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What do you think?
Lucid is a really loaded word, that can cause a lot of confusion, a psychologist will have a different understanding of the word due to it's clinical use.
It is probably too late, once a term slips into popular consciousness it is pretty much stuck there.
It is a bit of a shame because recognized dream may be a more accurate term, as in "I recognized my dream last night" or "a recognized dream is a dream in which a person recognizes that they are dreaming while they are having the dream."
It doesn't matter how clear, vivid or how much control a person has, if the dreamer doesn't realize that it is a dream while inside it, it isn't a lucid/recognized dream.
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I agree that recognized dream would be a more self-explanatory term for what we really experience, but it is also quite a mouthful. I think that lucid dream sounds cooler and that probably contributes to it's widespread usage. I like your idea though!
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I agree, it's a loaded word, but it's probably too late to change.
How about "conscious dream" as another name?