Thread: My Lucid Near Miss Plateau - what am I doing wrong?

My general plateau seems to be to be in a dream, to half realize that this is bizarre so it must be a dream, but at the same time still tied heavily to the emotional or intellectual beliefs of my person in the dream world. I can't seem to get past this. What am I doing wrong?

In case this is unclear, here's the most recent dream -

I am in a sort of mellow mood, I don't smoke but was, as I reclined half sitting up in my bed, slowly, meticulously, dissecting my own chest. My mood about it was mellow, as if I was working on an interersting puzzel. Somehow I knew that I was under heavy sedation which was totally numbing me. The dissection was intensly detalied. I have almost no background in physiology, and yet this was pretty detailed. Probably all wrong, but seemed correct to me. Anyway, As I pulled back tissue I somehow knew to be lungs, after removing the chest bones, I found the top half of the heart and at this point I became very aware of how bizarre this all was. I said to myself this must be a dream. The the very next thought was "damn, I better get some technician in here to put tthis back together before the meds ware out!"

I was equally invested in both thoughts.

This is what I am talking about...

Anway, the dream ended shortly thereafter, or my memory of it, or whatever...

Insight???