The difference between a dream and a lucid dream
I'm currently thinking about the quetion: what is the difference between a dream and a lucid dream? When I read about this topic, some people say that you can think clearly, make decisions, focus attention... I think these activities are common in nonLucid dreams as well as in lucid ones. Recall the intentions from waking life? You can do this in nonLucid dreams as well. So I'm looking for something that is not present in nonLucid dreams at all and it's present in lucid ones. Stephen LaBerge in his book say that this something is awareness. What's awareness? - <knowledge or understanding of a subject, issue, or situation> In this case we can say - Knowledge of a sitiation - that means know that what is now happening is a dream, not the reality. When you gain this knowledge, it changes everything. When you gain this knowledge in a dream (I call it MAGIC MOMENT) you become lucid. Well, I don't understand it enough. Let's try to aplly this on waking state. How? I don't know. First thought come to my mind is KNOW that this is reality and not a dream, but when I realize that, no ''magic moment'' appears. The reason why this ''magic moment'' doesn't show up may be that I don't know what this thing called reality really means. Okay, reality means - the real nature of things... Nature???? Nature - the physical world including all living things. Physical??? existing in the real world, nature laws of GAME called life. So how can I be LUCID in waking life? My idea is to KNOW THE REALITY - to know my possibilities according to nuture laws? This leads my to reality check induction technique <which I know is really not a effective way of induction lucid dreams> but it can be effective reminder of knowing the reality - to know my options in real life, but this is not a topic of this threat. I'm not fully satisfied with this theory of mine and I believe there are lots of clever oneironauts who can help me to find the better answer to my question: What is the difference between lucid and nonLucid dreams?