i get what you're saying...i am not nearly as proficient as you, and i still feel the same way sometimes after a particularly awesome lucid.
a few thoughts.
1. consensus "reality" can be shared...by this i mean that although i may be able to visit an absolutely spectacular, radiant forest during a lucid, which is teeming with sanctity and ancient allure, it is impossible to actually share this with anyone other than a figment of your mind...a dream character.
whereas i can go camping with friends and share the beauty of a coastal rainforest and it is superior in many ways... because one can share it with other minds. one can take a loved one there, to a special little cave that nobody else knows about..
2. this isn't a plug for "drugs", but certain entheogens/hallucinogens are capable of providing experiences which can rival, or perhaps surpass lucid dreams. i do not speak of the "physical' affective substances, but the "cerebral".
a few of my experiences with psilocybin, N2O, and salvia divinorum could never be reproduced by the dreaming mind (whether lucid or not).
i recall you saying you don't need drugs, and are one of the few people you know who don't smoke up regularly. this is cause for respect. just making sure you don't make unfair sweeping generalizations
3. i would be extraordinarily surprised if certain activities could not prove themselves to be other than "ho-hum"...especially activities which carry with them the very real possibility of serious injury or death.
for instance, it is one thing to plummet towards the earth in a lucid dream, knowing the worst that will happen is you will wake up in your nice warm bed, but quite another to crawl onto the wing of a plane at ten thousand feet and will yourself to let go with nothing but a pack on your back.
the chips are real in waking life.
4. beauty is in the eye of the beholder. remember that you yourself, and the mind which allows you to have amazing lucid experiences, is a product of millions of years of evolution. that without this consensus reality, you would have no material with which to compose lucid dreams.
without the ho-hum carribean, you could not possibly imagine a swirling sea of bright red teeming with strange chimeras.
sometimes there is greater beauty and excitement in perceiving that which Mind other than oneself has created, especially when one realizes their own small mind is but an insignificant part of Life.
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just some thoughts..again, i understand, and feel the same way sometimes. perhaps when i have comparable LDs i will be inclined to agree..but i doubt it.
IMHO the day waking life is but a shadowy, insignificant, boring, ho-hum burden one must get through in order to return to the dreaming universe, that is the day one has forgotten that the dreaming universe is impossible without consensus reality.
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to place all one's eggs in the basket of dreaming mind is to remove all value from shared reality...it seems only one person in a great number could do this without eventually becoming depressed and lonely.
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not shitting all over your lucid reality...there is a pleasure in self-created art that stands alone. congratulations on the rewards of your hard work...work invested while awake.
it'd just seem like a shame to see someone else incapable of enjoying consensus reality...viewing it like a prison.
to place one's identity fully with the king midas they are capable of being in their dreams is to risk two things.
1. becoming disenchanted with the sterile perfection of their golden lucid landscape of mindless DCs
2. see everyone and everything which has any worth apart from ego-centered existence turn into coal with the touch of one's waking eyes.
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lucid dreaming IS amazing...it certainly makes television boring. but it seems a shame and waste of a life when it makes the totality of existence apart from the 1400 cc of biology within one's skull boring as well..
i hope you find balance...without "imperfection" there is no "perfection"...
namaste 8)
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