Last night before I fell asleep I was thinking. When we learn to become lucid within our dreams, it's rather exciting because of the possibilities. You can do anything, have anything, and be anything you want in your dreams once you figure out how to control them. So think of how long you're awake for the day. Say you wake up at 7:00 a.m. and then fall asleep at 10:00 p.m. That's fifteen hours awake. Now, if you fell asleep and woke up at these times, you'd have a sleeping time of 9 hours. So we're missing 6 hours from real life. If you knew how to become lucid every night while dreaming, wouldn't it be odd to think you could possibly live two different lives? Once you enter your dreams, you can do anything, and anything is possible. Once you wake up, you're living in reality wondering what to do for the next night. You live your reality life, but when you fall asleep you could be whatever. You can wake up and say, "Tonight I'll be singing in my favorite band's concert as the lead singer." See what I'm getting at? It'd be as though you could live two lives at once. You live in a world where anything is possible, and you also live in a world that has restrictions and is much different. It reminds me of the "Something by day, Something by Night" saying obviously substituting the "somethings" for two completely different things. I was going to try it and really go for lucidity. As long as I practice it for a long period of time it could almost be natural.
Nice, but wouldn't be cooler if were singing in a concert FOR REAL? I mean, don't become obsessed with you dream life and stop caring for your real life.
Lucid dreaming is very difficult because when your dreaming your Id is what controls what you see, hear, feel within your dreams. When you lucid dream your ego becomes aware of your Id in the dream and thus you can alter the reality. I have never succsessfully been able to control every aspect of my dream because once my ego comes in contact with my Id they counter each other making me realize I'm dreaming causing me to wake up. I do know some people who can lucid dream on occassion but, I like letting my Id control my dreams, more ability to tap into the collective unconscious
I couldnt agree more squilla. Unless folk are absolutley confident with their intuition in waking life and have a great deal of self trust , then lucid dreaming though fascinating, will be an obstacle to what the deeper parts of ourself are trying to reveal.
Although lucid dreaming is an amazing experience, for me it causes me to be much less rested the next day. So when experimenting with your dreams, you might want to keep that in mind.
Heh, the old addage; 'Burning the midnight oil' comes to mind ... try not to burn yourself out! ...Seriously, maybe you'd like to just sleep sometimes. Sleeping and dreaming naturally is important. Like the last posters have already said, ... during sleep our Id or self sinks into unconciousness ... the deeper parts of ourself and our egos are 'dissolved' temporarily allowing us to be more like our real selves, ... not held back by judgements and inhibition. During sleep our minds get a well needed break and our bodies are unburdened by our minds allowing for great healing and rest. Squilla said that our egos get involved when lucid dreaming because we have become aware of ourself, and this has to be true. In waking material life our egos (which is not who we are) like to try and run things and lead us round and round in a never ending drama of owning, judging and controlling ...and thinking. Kind of a 'fantasy self' really. So our dreams are the only time that most of us get to be without ego and that's really important. You obviously have a knack for lucid dreaming though so i can't exactly tell you to stop, but would just suggest 'not trying' to dream lucidly and just let the dream happen and go it's own way. And if you DO find yourself dreaming lucidly then i'd just say the same thing; don't try to control it and just go with the flow ... it might be trying to tell you something.
