Thread: Is lucidity an obstacle to dreaming

Hmmmm. I think the problem with your example is that it is only one dream. Why do we need to acquire any insight from this dream? What is lucidity going to add that we cannot glean right now the way it is? What happens if you wake up from this dream and go, "huh, that was a weird dream."? Maybe that's all you needed to gather from this experience. Is that not enough?

Perhaps it would be better if this was something you dreamt about repeatedly. For example, I've had dreams about school, too many I'm afraid. Whether it'd be trying to escape school, or alone in school, or stressed in class, or wandering about, I can't stop dreaming about this place. But also, there's nothing new I need to learn from it that I don't already know. Like, I get it, It was a hard period in my life. I didn't have a particularly good time when I was a kid but, you move on. I don't think these dreams hold any secret insight that need revealing through a lucid dream.

Then again, there was one dream, I have it on my dream journal here. It was a dream about a tree and my unusual connection to this tree and how it made me feel. So, a very surreal, very different experience. Compared to the random number of meaningless dreams I see every night, maybe this one could be of use had I been lucid when it happened. Or maybe it was just another bizarre dream I had, albeit far weirder than the rest.

But, to answer your question: what obstacle?