Thread: The future of Lucidity

I had a thought this afternoon... this is all hypothetical btw, I'm just wondering "what if", and wanted other people's opinions.

What if... with enough practice and meditation, perhaps aided by some further research of lucid dreaming and new discoveries about it, we discovered a way to become lucid while fully awake. What I mean is, we could go to the bed or a comfy chair, lie down, close our eyes, do a meditation or deep breathing technique or something of the sort, and boom - lucidity. In my hypothetical, lets say one could stay lucid for about an hour, and then you'd wake up, no matter what...and you'd have to wait about five hours before you could do it again.

If there was a way to do this... would you do it? Why or why not? I think maybe that it's difficult for a reason - after all, if we could all go to a world where we could do or be anything we wanted, whenever we wanted, it might be tempting if you had problems (or even if you didn't) to spend too much time in "lucid" land.

What made me think about this is the realization that lucidity is just a brain state, really...and if people can slow their heartrate and breathing with biofeedback, and induce lucid dreams by MILD/WILD ect, who's to say one day we won't be able to get to that state quite easily. And what would be the repercussions of that?

I've been doing good with lucids lately *knock on wood*, and to be in a lucid dream really is such a wondrous experience... to feel the bark of a tree, feel your body swooping through the air, wade through cool water with the sun beating down on your face, all the while aware that your own mind is creating this... it truly is amazing. It also makes me question the true nature of 'reality', but that's a whole other post