Thread: Anyone else here less motivated to lucid dream after using VR?

Although it has already been said here, I'd like to contribute my opinion as a gamer.

I would say that, though similar, VR and lucid dreaming are completely different experiences. As of right now VR is rather limited: While a very cool thing, it is still very early on in its lifetime; you won't find many full games in VR, and, if you do, it will probably be disorienting due to your lack of motion. In lucid dreaming, you aren't limited by programming (except that of your brain) or play area. Until VR communicates directly with your mind, it will never be any match for lucid dreaming.

However, even if this were to come to pass, there would only be two arguments for the superiority of VR: First would be ease of access, which is fair enough if you don't want to put in any effort; Second is polish. While a dream is created by your mind, and can be more chaotic compared to other stories and experiences, a game is created by people, and will generally end up being more consistent and polished. However, the chaos of a dream depends on the individual dreaming it-- some people have strikingly consistent and streamlined dreams, after all.

So, in the end, VR would never be a match for lucid dreaming, except if you can't put in the effort. Though, by the time VR games can communicate with the brain directly and accurately, we will probably have also developed devices that can induce lucid dreams in a similar way, so even then VR<Lucid Dreaming. At this point though, they will become pretty similar things-- maybe it could be possible to enhance lucid dreaming with VR tech. But, I digress.

Edit: I feel like I should include examples of ways that btc interfacing could potentially improve LD's.

It could potentially create actual shared dreams that could be proved to have happened;

It could allow us to induce LD's more easily;

It could allow us to revisit other dreams or continue them;

and, it could automatically record our dreams