Hi to the gods and noobs and all other dreamers. So much great info and discussion on this site. I'm having to tear myself away in fact. Seems that everything I might post about already has a nice thread going. I plan to enroll for adoption when I'm eligible. I already see a couple people who would make good parents. If your nest is empty, you are welcome to PM me!

Watching the creativity of your dreaming-mind with little interference from your lucid-mind is amazing in itself. I've seen non-LD images that blew my mind visually and emotionally. But what if our lucid-mind exercises creativity as well as our dreaming-mind, as with a LD? Some of the questions I want to explore:

Which is deeper, stranger, more powerful, and more nakedly honest, the regular dream or the lucid? When lucid, what exactly is the difference between the dreamer and the dreamed if they are infact one mind? Is there a connection between lucid dreaming and meditation? Because the goal of meditation is to transcend the illusion of the self or the illusion of any separation between the thinker and the thoughts (i.e. the dreamer and the dream). Are there any limits within a LD (e.g. detail, time, logic)? Is it possible to induce synesthesia (e.g. "smell sounds", "hear colors")? Why do some dreams seem boring when they must in fact be full of the richest psychological symbols? And while I don't personally believe in psychic dreams (e.g. remote-viewing, pre-cognition, shared dreams), that doesn't mean that "astral projection" is without value or insight. No one can prove that dreams don't access alternate dimensions if those dimensions don't otherwise intersect with waking experience.

I'm interested in chatting with far-out dream explorers. Thanks to everyone here!