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    1. 08-21-2015 07:33 AM #1
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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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    2. 08-21-2015 09:03 AM #2
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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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    3. 08-24-2015 09:35 AM #3
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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?
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