There are some real gems in your last post, Darkmatters.

That whole lantern image really works for me. One of the things I am working on is trying to balance the waking world with the dream world. To incorporate your imagery, I want to dim that daytime lantern a bit while at the same time getting a bit of a more focused light in the night world. I know I'm drifting into dream yoga with that. I feel as though that super focused beam of consciousness keeps us constantly reacting to the stimuli around us when we are awake, preventing us from living in a more centered and non distracted manner.

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When the conscious mind is switched 'on' (when we're awake) you can't notice the dim light of the unconscious, even though it's always there. But if you become lucid in dreams, you're bringing some of that conscious awareness into the realm of the unconscious - sort of like carrying a lantern into a dark forest.
I'm thinking of the flow from the other direction as well............ that less of one and more of the other will create a nice balance in my life and help me get a bit more centered during my waking dream, as the Buddhists say. I'm counting on my DCs to draw out some of that hidden wisdom (that I already have) and with a more balanced conscious/subconscious between the two "dreams" maybe I can create some sort of conduit between them.

What do you think of all that?