Thread: Isn't lucid dreaming meddling with affairs that shouldn't be meddled with?

Originally Posted by Chiboab

Thank you for your responses
However, if you do some "technique" that requires you to practise it during the whole day (for example RCs), then your mind must be constantly occupied with it, right? You spend most of your waking moments thinking about lucid dreaming... doesn't this get in way of your life? I understand that if you had chosen to take up lucid dreaming, then you must put some effort into it, of course, but does this get easier with time? Like you don't have to think about it that much and it still happens? I'm sorry if my questions are stupid, I just find it quite weird to think about it so much... after doing RCs and trying to be self-aware every day for a while I started to feel a bit strange about it

I think that lucid dreaming practice shouldn't need to demand your constant effort - instead, it should be about simply developing a natural mindset.
I usually compare it to learning how to walk - when you first learned how to walk it required your constant attention, and you had to be very focused to do it, but eventually you learned how to do it without thinking about it.
I think lucid dreaming should be approached the same way;
for example, Lucid Living should become such a habit that you just happen to be "lucid" in waking life without "trying" to be it.

One of the most important realizations a lucid dreamer can have is that you could possibly be dreaming even when you "know" that you are awake.
This has happened to me many times - I will be like "yeah, I am obviously awake right now", and then I will wake up one minute later, and that's always a very fascinating experience.