Quote Originally Posted by Zuma View Post
For instance, my favorite dreams are the lovely-dovey ones, where I meet some special woman (someone I know or don't know) and we connect, have great emotional interactions and then maybe some great physical interactions. These are powerful dreams and part of the power is that I'm believing this is a beautiful real moment.
I agree, fully. That really hits home for me.

There are non-lucid dreams in which things occur that can overshadow the joy that comes from lucidity. I suppose I'm lucky in that I don't often recognize the difference between the dream and reality right out of the blue, even in the most extreme of situations. I had the pleasure, for instance, of experiencing a very long and vivid dream in which I was the leader of a resistance group in a world where the elements and magic could be used by gifted persons (of which I was one). I teleported from where I'm sitting in the US straight into London, England to visit a friend. We were in the middle of a war that was taking place largely in other countries. There were vast, rolling green plains in some parts of the world, and black cloudy skies with a fiery orange tint beyond them in others. The whole thing was real for me. It would have topped a lucid version of a same dream by a long shot.
On top of that, I had one of those love dreams again this morning, so I hear where you're coming from (my favorites as well).

In the long run though, I do still enjoy lucid dreams a great deal. They do not occur at such a high frequency as to make them boring. I'd say they occur at the right times.