I've been thinking alot lately on my lucid dreams, I've come to the conclusion that lucidity isn't as good as we all give it credit for.

The reason? think about some of the thing we talk about on a day-to-day basis here on the forum:

1) How to make your dream more vivid

2) How to extend your dreams

3) How to "ground" yourself in a dream

The reason I list these things is to show that lucid dreams aren't like real life, You can do one of two things in a lucid: 1) Fight to make it more like real life, or 2) do nothing but go with the flow
We're always fighting against ourselves to remain conscious, if we don't then we wont be ourselves, our minds will be diluted and we wont act ourselves at all. I've been getting lucid a long time now, I first thought: "It'll get easier to get conscious and have the dream stay normal" but it hasn't gotten easier, its gotten harder. I've gotten lucid so many times that I've begun to go with the flow of the dream. and that just sucks
But that's not even the problem, If I ever did decide to go against my subconscious it would be an endless battle. I would steadily have to do reality checks in order to keep true lucidity. If I was truly lucid I would have to avoid potentially scary situations (example: swimming deep in the ocean with a mermaid) Because these situations could easily turn incredibly bad if just for a second my faith in self failed (I'm making out with the mermaid when I think "she's dead" and suddenly she screams and theirs a stake in the back of her head, a battle ensues with me against a demonic beast)

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying lucid dreaming sucks by any means. All I'm saying is that its not comparable to real life, If you ever decide "I want to be peter pan" or something similar (role-playing) it would be nothing like real life, your natural mental processes would kick in and you would actually become peter pan, (think about it, when your playing a video game do you steadily think: "I'm a person holding a controller"? of course not, that would ruin the fun of it. In the same way when lucid you don't want to steadily think "I'm (insert your name), and I'm in a dream right now", If you do falter and stop thinking "I'm me and I'm in a dream right now" you'll fall into the illusion and never come out till you wake up the next morning.

I don't know why I'm ranting about this, This post in all likelihood made no sense whatsoever. But I've been thinking about this alot lately. No matter how we think of them or work at them, our dreams will still be dreams, you cant get around that fact.

But there is hope.</span>
<span style="color:#FF0000">(this is gonna get really trippy and possibly not make any sense, be prepared)

The reason I say lucid dreams suck so much is because we&#39;ve been dreaming before they happen. And usually we dream after them. This makes it so our dreams are separate from our day to day lives.
If one day I see a commercial that says "go mountaineering in colorado, you&#39;ll love it" and I suddenly get an urge to mountaineer, chances are that that urge isn&#39;t going to still be around when I get lucid that night.

What I&#39;m proposing:

The way to counterbalance this effect and make lucid dreams one with our reality is to have them during the day and with no sleep beforehand (an afternoon WILD)
Of course this method has many problems:

1) you would have to get your body to go into REM first thing

2) It would take a long time to go into SP and REM, you would also have to find a way to pass quickly into those stages

3) The dreams likely wouldn&#39;t be super amazing once you got into them (very shaky and stuff)

But it has tons of advantages:

1) You would be more lucid than you could ever imagine

2) Your wants from that day would still be fresh in your mind

3) This method would be a true "virtual reality" experience, it would feel nothing like a dream, you wouldn&#39;t regard it as a dream in any way

4) you wouldn&#39;t forget the dream before you woke up

5) You could do it at a lunch-break and lets face it, that would just be awesome

etc etc etc

I know this post sounds like a "wouldn&#39;t that be nice if:" but its not. This is really a possibility. I&#39;ve seen nothing that says it isn&#39;t possible.

Anyway I&#39;m gonna start trying to do it.

suggestions?

I may end up deleting this topic entirely. It really feels like it was huge rant but I&#39;m too tired to go back and look. hope you had fun reading it.