I don't have much experience on this kind of subject since I only recently started studying by myself the brain-structure and the phenomenons behind aspects like memory. I feel almost completely lost since it's such great amount of information and I end up raising more questions than answering the one I started with

You did remind me this piece of text La Berge's book:

"(...)Awareness in biological organisms is a function of the brain. The sensory organs detect information (light,sound,heat,texture,odor) in the world and transmit it to the brain. The brain interprets the information and synthesizes it into a conception of what is happening in the outside world (...)"

What this tells me is that there are people that have naturally more awareness than others. For example, Line Salvesen is a famous Norwegian lucid dreamer that has made into the new in that country. She has lucids since a quite young age, and I found this in an interview which immediately caught my eyes:


Also, pardon my ignorance, but isn't a bigger amount of neuronal connections equal to more/faster neurons, thus an increase on the information's processing, which in the particular subject of awareness (this is, defining the world around you), means you would have an easier time becoming lucid?

Also, another thing I don't understand. While dreaming, the blood flow in your brain greatly increases, but iirc, the logical area is not as irrigated as usual. That, combined with the shut down of the seurotonic neurons, makes the dream appear real. But is the type of memory that makes us know that pigs can't fly unavailable (just like short-term memory) as well? How can we be aware of impossibilities within the dream and escape others?