Quote Originally Posted by Torrent View Post
Ive found i have a problem lucid dreaming because whenever i regularly dream, i wake up just being glad i had a good dream. It's that i like regularly dreaming so much already that i dont have the motives to continue into lucid dreams. I feel like i already have a good thing going, and why ruin it by trying constantly to make it better then it already is. I mean, the grass is always greener. Whenever i wake up without a lucid, i dont really care, because i had a dream anyways. I remember just about all my dreams. And all the ones i've written down have no similarities whatsoever between them.

I want to lucid dream, but it just isnt that important to me, because as long as i CAN dream, im happy.

Jeez i need help, i really do want to lucid dream at least once.

My mentor is helping me a lot, but theres only so much one person can do.

I need an array of opinions.
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Well, you may have a very good point.

Lucidity is ONLY necessary if one's Dream Persona had been seriously off track and out of line. If one's Dream Persona were consistently acting crazy, behaving inappropriately, with too much fear.. or whatever kind of problem, THEN Lucidity would make sense in that such behaviors and attitudes could be corrected with the intercession of the Waking Self.

But if the Dream Persona is behaving itself admirably... if one can perceive no problems and is happy with one's Dream Persona, then why disrupt Normal Dreaming with the Discontinuities imposed by Lucidity?

Indeed, one must always keep in mind that Lucidity is only something of a recent Fad. People used to do a great deal of Dream Work even before Lucidity. Find an old copy of Dr. Ann Faraday's "Dream Power".. and except for a brief reference on Lucid Dreaming on page 109, all Dream Work can be done with Suggestion.

Indeed, as an example, here is an elaborate essay... ( http://www.awgp.org/english/books/sleep_dreams.pdf )almost a complete book on Dreams and Dream Work... written by an Indian Sanskrit Scholar who was careful to include every facet of human knowledge that ever been applied to Dreams and Dream Work... but his sources were a bit dusty and he doesn't have a single word to say about Lucid Dreaming. And even then there is every promise and potential that Dreams can be of tremendous Spiritual Value.

Without Lucid Dreaming, yes, indeed, Life would still go on. It really was not so bad before those various New Age Gurus started telling lies about and selling tickets for Lucid Dreaming.