Thread: New, with a question about a DC

Are you sure that this is what the doctor ordered? I would have suspected medication.

I am not convinced that one can be lucid while dreaming, but not lucid when awake. Lucidity is not just a function of perceptual information--even with memory, it involves the judgmental capabilities also--one cannot have one without the other.

Therefore, many think they are lucid dreaming, when in fact, they are not.

In fact, there have been some, Plato, and the originator of scripture, even quotes from Christ, which all state, and quite rightly, that if the mind has not judgmental faculties, it is not awake. Ever wonder what "Let the dead bury the dead meant."?

Every lasting piece of literature of any value differs in a fundamental way from other literature and you must learn to see it, if you can by a common fact. There are two ways to construct a set, enumeration and definition. Thus there are two categories of liturature. One class is just a heap of words, no matter how gratifying they might be, the other are words constrained by some form, some definition. They are not written to be pleasant or unpleasant--that is not part of the form.

Sometimes this definition is called a principle.

The greatest forms constraining one's words are those, of course, which maintain and promote one's life. The worst, those forms which destroy life.

If one understands the truth of the matter, then the greatest forms of lit, may very well be the least popular.