In my experience and others more vivid and intense dreams cause people to lose lucidness or wake up altogether. I hypothesize that the cause of this in some cases is due to the processing power that an individuals dream is using exceeds the limit that the mind is capable or willing to give. For this reason I would like to begin devolving test to explore this hypothesis and methods to reduce the processing power required of our dreams.

I myself am still a novice at best at LD and cant maintain an LD for more than a minute or two. For this reason it would be great if any experienced LDrs could perform these test.

In my opinion reducing the amount of visual data we have to interpret in a dream would be a good place to start. I think the reason it is hard to change light levels in dream is because just like in a video game this requires an intense amount of processing power to render all of the shadows. So maybe we could develop a test around dreaming in black and white or some how removing the presence of shadows.

This is just a place to start. It would be awesome to see what ideas you guys can come up with and I think we may be able to find some ways to really improve what we can do in our dreams.