Thread: Lucid Dreaming --> Enlightenment ?

Might lucid dreaming research and experiences lead us to a better understanding of waking life's true nature?
Might our waking consciousness be of a similar nature to our dreams, and thus hallucinations rather than actually real?
Might the world we experience living in be immaterial, just as the world of our dreams is a figment of imagination?

I hope these few questions are just a launching pad.
Please share your questions, thoughts, feelings, ideas, theories, experiences, hopes, ect...

Might lucid dreaming research and experiences lead us to a better understanding of waking life's true nature?[/b]

Whether it'll lead to some new sort of universal truth remains endlessly debatable, however, I do think lucid dreaming can help you to learn more about yourself and -your- true nature. It can be a great tool of self exploration and reflection, I believe Which is good because before go and try to figure out life's entire true nature lets just figure out who we really are ourselves first ^^

Might our waking consciousness be of a similar nature to our dreams, and thus hallucinations rather than actually real?[/b]

I don't think they are of the same nature, literally. What you see here is not literally a hallucination. This world is generally solid and stable, moreso than a dream. However, I do believe some -aspects- of waking life can be considered an hallucination/illusion, symbolically speaking. Like when you get extremely attached and focused on material weath, but thats another story

Might the world we experience living in be immaterial, just as the world of our dreams is a figment of imagination?[/b]

Who knows? I guess the answer wouldnt change anything because it wouldnt affect how real this world is. Its stable, and doesnt change easily. I think most people would say this world is definitely material and -real-. Thats just planet earth itself though, a lot of our -society- is build around immaterial concepts though that could change, if people could let it go (like the extreme attachment to material posessions, like I mentioned earlier)