A thought came to me today of how we could look at out conscious and subconscious minds that differs from most anything that I have read. Which means, the idea is probably all ready out there, but I just haven't run into it. Regardless, I wanted to post my thoughts to see what others within the LD community felt.

We all believe, I think, that during waking life our conscious mind is awake and in control. When we go to sleep, our subconscious mind takes over as access to our conscious diminishes. But I don't remember anyone suggesting that while we are awake what we really need to do is wake up the subconscious mind in order to be truly Lucid in waking life. In other words, we strive for lucidity in a LD by bringing our conscious mind on-line, so to speak. Why do we not think about doing the same thing for our subconscious mind during the day. Should it not follow the same logic?

During sleep, we lose access to a portion, but not all, of our waking consciousness. I think the same thing happens when we are awake, except that it is the subconscious mind that we lose partial access to.

With this in mind, we need to find a way to rouse the subconscious while it slumbers just as we do the conscious mind in our night dreams. As all things along these lines, easier said than done. But I believe that if you don't identify the true nature of your goal, the harder it is to find a solution to any dilemma regarding it. I don't have a specific answer as to what techniques would be best used, as I just came up with this understanding today. Most techniques that I know or have read about deal with the issue by finding a way (a form of rote) to penetrate the sleeper, such as the MILD method or versions of self-hypnosis.

Rather than attacking and drilling down into the subconscious while awake, we need to find a way to simply bring it to the surface, to let it become conscious and directly accessible. Looked at from this perspective, perhaps something will come to mind. Maybe even go into a LD and ask what is needed to wake the subconscious while awake.

Something to think about. Thanks as always for reading my ramblings.