This is sorta related. I have to say right now, I'm no expert in lucid dreaming at all, and this is just what I've been thinking with my extremely limited experience in lucid dreaming.
I was thinking about a week ago about this sort of thing, and came to the conclusion that while an LD wouldn't be a very good tool for learning new things, it would be an absolutely amazing tool to solve problems where you have all of the information you need already, but you just need to think them through. I would think that with the added support of your unconscious minds presence, you would be able to think things through much much more effectively, as you would be able to visualize everything you're thinking of. Your thoughts would become much more organized, and you would become much more aware of what your entire brain is doing, and much less distracted by senses. Especially if visualization is required, instead of having to just visualize certain situations in your head and having to keep track of it all, it would be like what you are visualizing is really there, and you would be completely in your visualization, and that way everything would be a whole lot easier to keep track of. It seems like if you do it right, thoughts would come easier, creativity would improve, focus would improve, and everything would be more organized.
What does someone who has more experience think of this? Is my theory right?
In any case, I really enjoy thinking about philosophy, and one of the things that drive me the most to lucid dream is being able to think things through better, and being able to simulate certain things, and perhaps practicing various other skills, so that my dreams will help me in life even more than they do now.
To those of you that don't know, the current most acceptable reason behind REM dreams among scientists is that dreams are meant for the mind to improve its function in situations that it believes may come in the future. It has been shown that if a person dreams about something that they had learned the previous day during their REM sleep, then that person will improve at that activity a great deal more than a person that doesn't. I think if you are able to control your REM dreams, and you practice specific things, it will cause you to improve drastically.
Sure, I plan on flying around and having sex and whatnot in my LDs, but that's not at all what I most look forward to!
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