There was a time when I was so involved with lucid dreaming, I began to see my sleeping life as just as relevant and important as my waking life. This was some time ago when I was studying Dream Yoga. I was on a polyphasic sleeping schedule, involved with a community of dreamers, and instructing people in dreaming. It was pretty much my full time life.
I found that I kept little to no separation between my dream memories and my waking memories. Polyphasic sleeping and lucid dreaming in short naps totally killed my perception of time.
I did, however always keep a separation between the waking world and the sleeping world. I would have different goals for each world I lived in. While awake, I would do things that are impossible in dreams - Spend time with other people and learn new things. While asleep, I would do things that are impossible while awake - explore other worlds and aspects of my subconscious mind.
I could never imagine having your waking life mean nothing. Real human interaction, reading and learning new information, creating artwork that will still be there the next day, creating relationships with people who will still be there the next day. You would have to have some sort of psychotic break to give these things up.
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