Thank u so much to all of you for taking the time to reply so elaborately! I've been a bit obsessed with Castaneda since I learned to lucid dream from him when I was 15. And as crazy far out as his books get, all of his dreaming guidance is dead on. So I can't discount him.
When people in my life have told me they have had lucid dreams, in my experience they have been just describing regular dreaming. In truly lucid dreams reality is more real than this, except i can't read for shit. I hold the world together with my will and i move around through will and it does eminate from my stomach. I went through a long period, several years, when every time I realized the dream and started looking in glances at my surrounds, all of a sudden another me, a double of me, would consistently appear and attack me physically until I lost lucidity. Now I've learned to ignore that person, and not to touch or fight this person, who I think is my rational mind fighting against my will coming out.
In answer to occipitalred above, in long explorations of dream worlds that seemed to last for days, I have many many times tried to communicate with the people living there, but they react as zombies. As soon as I interupt whatever they were doing, the loose facial expression and personality. So not much society to discover so far.
So to repeat, I'm calling out to those that have experienced Castaneda's dreaming world. And have you stored energy for dreaming by undoing, by learning to stop your mind? I would love to hear from dreamers or anyone who can run in complete darkness. Anyone with a perfect tonal out there, hola privet u beau soir!!!!