I am very interested in what pushes up the scale of consciousness in a dream so that we become lucid. I hope if we keep bashing away at this topic some new insights will appear

Originally posted by memeticverb

I remeber asking myself "why" all the time in NDs, but I rationalize it away the anomoly away, usually at great lengths and even avoidance, but always after some questioning procedure.. *

The point in question seems to be whether there is any qualitative difference between a dream expereince in wakking expereince or dream experience. *I propose it is not, and like AnonymousTipster said before, lucidity is simply the addition of a piece of information that " this is a dream" which is usually followed by astonishment with its reality. *but all of our though processes are there already, we arent robots until we reach lucidity, imo *
I believe there are differences between waking consciousness and dreaming consciousness:
[list]defective memory
more intense affective/emotional states
less questioning
less internal dialogue[list]
When becoming lucid, I notice more about the dream and feel less engaged in it. Sometimes it feels like part of my brain has clicked on (and early on this tended to cause an abrubt ending to the dream as I actually woke up).