today, while reading this thread about DC behaviour, I came to a strange idea


well, by reading the several posts in that thread, I kind of realized how the mind works in the dream.. how it associates the smallest bits of information, i na way that doesn't suit reality

of course it has it's neurological reasons not to suit reality, that doesn't come to the point... what I wanna say is that, mostly, we don't get lucid because we don't think about lucidity in the dream

I don't even know why I'm making such thread, but I wanted to know what exactly triggers lucidity, by making your less-conscious, unreal thoughts activate your logical thinking

actually, when we are dreaming, there are thousands of processes involving serotonin or whatever-other-chemical, that inhibit your logical thinking, making the dream experience as surreal as it is

which means, ability to realize you're in a dream, aswell as dream vividness, isn't influenced by that


It'd be interesting to hear what triggers lucidity to other people before making a conclusion, but I think that it happens because a part of the brain gets out of the illogical "dream state", and so can influence the rest of the mind to produce the outcome it wants of a dream

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in my 4 lucids after joining DV, what has triggered them was:

1) Several false awakenings made me ask myself why I couldn't get up. By realizing something was wrong, I got lucid.
2) In a futuristic dream, after seeing a familiar building, I compared it to the one "in present time". I realized I wasn't in the future, and tha tit was only a dream.
3) At some point i just realized I was in a dream. Lucidity was low and faded quickly, though.
4) After facing a potential danger, I chose to fight it instead of running. Having to fight it triggered my conscious mind and made me lucid. (Actually I think this is wha thappens when you become lucid after having a nightmare)

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so, just tell me, what has made you lucid in a dream so far?