Damn, another long one. I almost hate when I get to rambling...
...almost. 
Ok, and I was trying to say that you don’t get a mentally ill person who is only seeing hallucinations and won’t suffer anything else. It is an ilssness, which means something is wrong with the brain. It also means that it will progress. You seem to think that illness can consist of just having visions, like watching a movie, and otherwise being absolutely sane and healthy.[/b]
Follower, let’s try to stay on topic, here. First we’re talking about the mental imagery of dreams and how the experience (not the images) can be classified as real life experience (even though you misunderstood at first, but that’s ok) and then you ask me about doctors discontinuing their medication because of these “Real Life” images (in which, I could still see the point you were making). Now, though, you’re going from just talking about the related visualization, between dreaming and some mental illnesses, into connecting those visualizations to other neurological/psychological problems that stem from the progressive illness. Not only is that way off the subject, but my implications to anything other than the mental imagery aspect of our conversation is irrelevant because what I proposed about the “Smiley faces and Small World” was a hypothetical that had only to do with hallucinations.
I’ve yet to speak about anything that I really think about mental illnesses besides the hypothetical of “IF they only hear/see positive things,” which is the only way I could connect your bringing mental illness into the conversation to anything we were talking about, concerning dreams.
By ‘natural’ I mean having an inborm ability to lucid dream at will. Learnt would be learning to do it.[/b]
I think your definition of “natural” lucid dreamer may be impossible. How does a baby know the difference between the waking world and the dream state? How do they know there is a difference? It would take knowledge of what dreams are as opposed to some knowledge about the objective world, and the cognitive ability to differentiate between the two, before someone can have a lucid dream. I don’t think this is information given to any of us, at birth.
Remember, dream content (from the scientific standpoint) is made up of a combination of past experiences. Conceivably there would be no "fantasy" for a baby to discern reality from fantasy, as all their dreams would probably be too realistic to tell them apart from the waking world.
It is what dream yoga is mostly about.[/b]
Again, if you’re going to quote me, please do it in context.
My very next sentence was: “This then, whether sincerely or not, causes them to dwell on that fact,” meaning that without a (seemingly) pathological attachment to the minimalist ideology of the “solitude” of dreaming, it is still possible to be aware that one is dreaming without consciously (or subconsciously?) attempting to find the predictables in every aspect of the dream.
But in truth there’s no unpredictibility. You can pretend to forget it, of course. That’s good to learn what you subconsciously desire and didn’t know about yourself.[/b]
Again, I disagree. Though many things that happen in my dreams are due to expectation, whether consciously or subconsciously, many of them deal with conceptual relationships that are so abstract and/or hidden so well, that they create completely unpredictable experiences/dialogue. Your mind is bombarded with subconscious influences for your dreams, everyday. Dream characters/content gains newer relationships and attachments to other dream content, daily.
To say that there is no unpredictability in dreams is to have a static mind where nothing changes – where DC X’s replay to your same question, asked in two different dreams to the same DC, is always going to yield the exact same response. This simply isn’t true – unless, of course, you’re the type that has solidified in your mind (for whatever reason) that everything in dreams is predictable. That same ideology that I mentioned in the response to the last quote can then cause you to start trying to predict everything that is going to happen, subconsciously, which could possibly cause your dreams to become more linear, predictable….boring.
You remember the day of the week, your name, all the data? You never forget anything that you wanted before falling asleep? You can pause and think? Don’t tell me that it is so (but if it is, you’re a master  ). Have you ever tried just to stand on the spot doing nothing, were you able to do it however long you want, absolutely still, without moving (nor your body nor any parts of your body, even your head)? If you can, then yeah you control yourself perfetly…
When we’re asleep the left brain works and the right one is hindered, so of course we’re in a different state of mind. Just pay attention to it. Some reactions are different, have you ever experienced an uncontrollable aggression or fright and caught yourself in the middle of feeling it? I can't believe it. Maybe you never paid attention.[/b]
So far, I don’t have too much trouble with remembering things that I try to, when lucid. No more trouble than I have remembering things when I’m awake, really (which may not be saying much, but you get my point ). This is how I (we) complete the tasks of the month, when we think about them. I’ve even decided not to do a task before because I remembered that it was the first day of the next month, and the previous month’s task was now over.
Granted, I’ve never had a situation where I was lucid and had to tell someone my name (because they already know, don’t they?) so my name doesn’t come up that often. When we are awake we can often have different reactions to like situations. When my dad died, I would find myself spiraling into an emotional negative that was completely uncommon for me. I would consciously catch on to how “unlike me” this was, and would be able to bring myself out of it.
Variations of “us” are still “us,” whether awake or dreaming. It’s very rare, since childhood, that I have dreams where I’m not in full control of my actions, whether lucid or not, so if your question is: Have I had any drastic changes, in lucid dreams, as in acting completely uncharacteristic of myself? Not very many that I can think of. I think I’m more “like myself” in dreams than I am on many mind-altering substances, and I’m usually very controlled on them.
Maybe it is news for you. But I thought that being able to discern reality and dreams is a sign of normality, are you hinting that it is not?(IMG:style_emoticons/default/smiley.gif)[/b]
Of course not. Normal, sure. But I think much of your argument is more a method to maintain your discernment between reality and dreams, rather than a picture of a logical perception of the perspectives of others who lucid dream – forging reinforcement of (what I believe are) misconceptions in an understandable reach for the normality you just spoke of.
But of course, it's all relative and you've had many experiences that I haven't, and vice versa, so I could be making an unfair assessment.
I just call 'em like I see 'em. 
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Oh, and as far as "running out of things to do in a lucid dream:"
I think that (besides the limiting idea of "the adventure is meaningless because it's all in your head) that this is due to a complete lack of creativity and/or preplanning. After taking a little waking world time to actually think about what you'd like to do in a lucid dream, you should have more than enough ammunition to keep yourself interested (hence the tasks of the month).
Without doing that, you're expecting to come up with everything cool to do, while you're actually dreaming, which is kind of like someone telling you you have an hour or so to teleport anywhere in the world and take home anything you want, for free, and expecting to not forget one thing you've always wanted.
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