Could you define what consciousness is while awake and them someone contrast that with Lucid Dreaming Consciuosness?[/b]
I am implying that it is an impossibility to be \"sleeping\" and be \"conscious.\"
con•scious•ness
n.

1. The state or condition of being conscious.
2. A sense of one's personal or collective identity, including the attitudes, beliefs, and sensitivities held by or considered characteristic of an individual or group: Love of freedom runs deep in the national consciousness.
3.
1. Special awareness or sensitivity: class consciousness; race consciousness.
2. Alertness to or concern for a particular issue or situation: a movement aimed at raising the general public's consciousness of social injustice.
4. In psychoanalysis, the conscious.[/b]
I am going with the second definition. By this definition, it is impossible to be "conscious" and be "dreaming." While dreaming no limitation exists, limitations are the defining factor for a personal identity. If we all can do whatever we want, then we are all equal, and have no defining identity--thus destroying conscious thought. In the "reality" that the general population lives in we are individuals with different traits and varying strong and weak points.

If you are into LDs then you must appreciate the power of the mind; it can be one's heaven or hell. If we truly believe something we can make it true. For example: if you believe everyone is out to get you, then you will see this manifest itself in your life. I am not saying that it is true, but you make your mind believe it is so.
Is it too hard to swallow that your mind is complex enough to convince you that you are actually inside of a dream? The LD might be nothing more then a compiled list of thoughts that you are so focused on that your mind makes you think you are conscious inside the dream?