um. . . my gut says 50/50. . . what's the real answer?[/b]
In a moment...
1 in 6 each time you roll the dice.[/b]
Yes, that's the easy part. But I asked about rolling three times. Knowing there's a one in six chance of rolling a 6 each time you roll the dice, what is the probability you will get a 6 at least once if you roll the die three times? I'll give the answer sometime tomorrow, and it does have something to do with this thread.


Your comments on deja-vu are interesting, and your explanation of how memories are stored helps me understand why it is so much easier to remember ld's than non-ld's.

I have nowhere near enough lucid experience to know personally if they have any long-term side effects. However, even if everyone on DV has no waking-life problems from ld'ing, I would still wonder if there are people out there who have some issues. This site attracts people who enjoy ld'ing, so we just might not hear from people who have had bad experiences with it. Some people have dropped in to say they've had some bad effects, but I haven't seen anyone stay long, and it's also difficult (impossible) to know what else is going on in a person's life to give them difficulty. Someone who's been around here longer may throw some more in on that.

I live in southeast alaska, and this time of year it's dark and rainy for long periods of time. When I've had to leave my house suddenly after being woken in the night, and drive into town in the driving rain in the dark, I've had some funny feelings transitioning from the sleep world to the waking world. Walking into a friend's house, I am sure that I'm in waking life, but sitting in a car squinting through big raindrops on the windshield with little but darkness around, I've wondered if I could get lost between the dream world and the waking world, just disappear into my own head. I'll ramble a little more, since this is my last post of the day. I once spent 13 months living on a bicycle, traveling and living in a tent. It was an incredibly peaceful existence, and dreams were a part of that life. When I returned to living in a city, I felt a little off for a month or so, a little unstable. I had the feeling I might just sit down on the sidewalk at any moment, and disappear into my head forever. It was very unsettling, until I realized it was just because I had jumped from an almost monk-like state of living right back into modern society. Once I realized that and learned which parts of the traveling mindset I could carry over into everyday living within society, I felt a lot more settled and stable. Whenever we jump back and forth between two very different mindsets, funny things can happen. The dream and waking states seem like two of those different mindsets.

(I think we're all perfectly fine to keep right on ld'ing, but it's interesting stuff to pay attention to.)