This isn't applicable only to LD but dreaming in general. Having read some of the lucid and non-lucid dreams on this forum, I must say that people have some really wild imaginations. What I don't understand is that I know lots of people who couldn't come up with a creative thought if they spent a year in a Tibetan monastary, yet they have dreams in which all kinds of complicated things are experienced with unpredictable plots, not to mention bizarre images and locations.

If dreams are created by the subconscious, doesn't that mean that the creativity is there when awake also, but just not tapped into. Why is it that such people cannot sit down and write even a marginally interesting story, but have wild dreams. Is there a way to tap into this creativity in waking life. I already keep a dream journal, but it would be nice to have that creativity but in a waking state so that I can have rationility too. How about this: has anyone ever written a book while Lucid Dreaming (not a whole book at once, but one page a night or something.) I had a dream in which I composed a theme song to a movie and when I woke up I was still able to remember enough of it that I got part of it transcribed before the rest slipped away.

Also, is there a way to LD for increased memory recall. I especially would like to be able to remember former dreams (like the rest of that compoition)