Originally posted by BillyBob_001
being truly lucid is thinking "my God iv done it, this is all being created by my mind" then being amazed by the detail your mind has created, truly stunned to the point that you just HAVE to look at everything more closely....
I agree this is high lucidity. Is total control possible? Can I direct my mind to construct a marble palace in Hawaii and populate it with a replica of Jessica Alba, and extend time to enjoy a few years? Or do visual systems remain partially unconscious and I have to trick them (e.g. portals, spinning) and rely on what appears?

I am not sure about consciousness as a dimension, but I experience consciousness/awareness as a scale - sometimes there is very little awareness other times there can be hyper awareness.

Originally posted by memeticverb
what is characteristic of ‘thinking’ is the questioning of your experiences, which would entail the imagining of multiple possibilities for future outcomes in order to see how the ones in your experience match up
My thoughts are different. In most of my dreams there is no thinking - there is stream of consciousness, flow of emotions, action and reaction. When I become lucid there is a different level. It involves reflecting on what is happening, rather than flowing with it. Oh this beautiful stranger knows my name - wait! how does she know my name? Imagining is different for me. In reflective thinking there's an attempt to critique the experience to separate out from the flow and reflect on what is happening. Its that element I try to strenghten via MILD.