We discussed lucid dreaming in psychology today, it was fun! However it got me thinking until the point that it drove me mad! Here's the thing: You cannot control your dreams because to be able to control, you need consciousness and when you are dreaming, you're unconscious. It's as simple as that, it's a defense mechanism of the brain; it shuts down consciousness when sleeping. How then, can we have lucid dreams? I mean I never had one (ok, I had half a LD), but apparently, if you have one and you can 'control' it, how does it work? Since you cannot consciously control your dream, it must somehow happen unconsciously. Which then of course opens a whole new door for the unconscious: maybe the unconscious is our conscious during the night. In other words, you cannot consciously control your dreams (which is logical, because you're dreaming) but you can unconsciously control your dreams... Does this makes sense?
Before replying, please think about it, it kinda makes sense!
Ow and btw, it do believe in LD'ing, otherwise I wouldn't be here!!