Thread: Oneironaut or cop out?

Originally Posted by Occipitalred

But, am I just copping out of lucid dreaming?

No, you're just approaching it in a better way by making better use of your lucidity. It is better to use lucidity to resolve nightmares than to run away from them.

Originally Posted by Occipitalred

I always want to deepen this hobby so I could re-commit to lucid dreaming... But I wonder if I could do it in a more subtle way (in fact, that's why I stopped lucid dreaming sort of)....

I think auto-suggestion is the most subtle of the lucid dreaming techniques. Before going sleep to, pick some dream goals and set the intention to identify dreams while they are happening in order to complete those dream goals.

Originally Posted by Occipitalred

I feel even being self-aware doesn't even have that much to do with lucid dreaming, it's another thing altogether, or else, lucid dreaming is like a homophone.

To lucid dream, one has to use their knowledge of dreaming. Knowledge of dreaming is not of much use when one is not aware of this knowledge. One needs self-awareness to be aware of what they know. Therefore, self-awareness is needed to lucid dream.

Originally Posted by Occipitalred

I don't like the term "lucid dreaming".

I sort of don't either. When I talk to others about lucid dreaming, I tend not to mention the term because I feel others can be put off by it because they think it is weird. Instead, I'll just assume everybody can lucid dream and bring up lucid dreaming by saying something like, "try transforming into a different animal during a dream. It's really neat!"

Originally Posted by Occipitalred

Why are we focused on lucid dreaming?

Lucid dreaming makes it easier to complete dream goals.