i'm sorry. wow. cognitive dissonance.

this kind of thing only ever happened to me once. I was walking around naked
in our yard because i had had a very lucid recurring dream that i had woken up-
over and over and over. It tricked me well enough for me to walk out into the yard naked.

That was when i was 13.

For the most part lucidity period is a sort of cumulative psi energy. If you get more lucid while dreaming you should get more lucid while waking, and vice versa.

I think the argument should be made that part of what was going on was i just wanted, subliminally, to walk around naked in the yard. I fooled myself because i wanted to be fooled, and because i was particularly groggy.

Later on in life my state lucidity has grown, i think the reason why i missed the point is that i just can't really imagine it any more.

For the most part, as you get more lucid, you become harder and harder to fool- even if its fooling yourself. I don't do any of these reality checks, for instance, any more. I just know that i'm dreaming and act appropriately.