Quote Originally Posted by Sageous View Post
Good point, and I'm a big fan of non-lucid dreaming -- but you might want to consider that lucidity can allow you to explore ... "all the blessed surreality and subconscious elements uninfluenced and unsuppressed by the conscious mind" during the dream, as it happens. Lucidity does not always equal dream control, or even influence, and if you are deeply lucid you can discover that you can indeed witness all that unconscious process and creation without effecting it... a dream need not be changed if you are present in it, and a dreamworld can be far more deeply appreciated in the present moment of lucidity than it can by remembering it later, I think.
I've heard that point before, but I must disagree as lucidity of any sort does influence at least one important segment of the dream: The dream self.

Perhaps this isn't an issue to those who only ever dream as themselves, but my dream self is often enough someone else completely, a different character, sometimes with radically different personality or outlook on the world. While lucid, by definition, I would be unable to be anyone but myself in dreaming, unable to think through the mind of another, because I would have that lucid sense of self interfering with that process.

I have no wish to kill the interesting characters I can become with non-lucidity, nor challenge the dream-self when it is more open-minded to the idea of being someone else, or even becoming nothing at all.