I read something in a lucid dreaming book that really struck a chord:

"... But in lucid dreaming [compared to normal dreaming], you begin to cross an amazing and evolutionary threshold, on the way to becoming a new type of human being. You are developing a fresh self-awareness; you are learning to extend that relationship with life and enter new possibilites and a new world"

Is what we're doing here a new evolutionary step to a superior state of being? While my lucid experience hasn't been that long (I started about 2 months ago and had LDs all the time for a while immediatly upon starting, but have had a dry spell lately partly due to lack of trying or thinking about it), is there really more to what we're becoming here than just having fun in fantasyland?

Forgive the dragonball analogy, but this is similar to goku and vegeta's transformation to super saiyan 4. They first became the golden monkey form (aka sleeping) but in that form they had no conciousness and just stomped on everything. Then when they became aware and regained conciousness in that state, they transformed into their ultimate forms.

Now I'm not saying we're going to be able to fly and shoot energy beams and grow fur but, I just had this thought that there is something a lot deeper to becoming conciously aware in our dreams.