Thread: Why would anyone want to lucid dream, surely it's undesirable?

Originally Posted by GordanFreeman

Are you sure, you are really lucid in these dreams?
What abusing?
What power?
What celestials?

Sorry, but in dreams everything is an illusion, not real, period!
Here a short example: I was getting lucid in my dream, but group of DC's was trying to convince me, that I'm not dreaming, but just getting crazy, so I kill them all. From the high level of adrenaline, the scene changed a little, they were alive again, but this time they were friendly and we talked about lucidity to the end of the dream.

Well, I'm not going to pretend to be all-knowing and say whether dreams are just figment of our imagination or something deeper. You are right, it's just illusions. However, might you be willing to consider them autonomous illusions under the influnce of other factors like your subconsciousness etc. and not 100% your conscious imagination? I consider these experience as dreams, lucid ones, whatever they are more than what is the generally accepted definition of dream is up to each one of us. So, this is how I look at it...

(Since our level of influience is limited in waking compared to lucid dreaming this example might not translate well, but I'll give it a try.)

Suppose you are playing an action adventure game. Influence is choosing the difficulty level, choosing the location, choosing a character class, choosing skills, choosing your kit, using your resources wisely and plan out how you proceed etc. Maybe we can push it even further without ruining the experience. Like, harvesting materials to build stronger weapons? Something like that. We can take advantage of faulty AI in a boss fight and do it over and over to our advantage and get further. However, to me abusing my powers would be using cheat codes, trainer programs, or aimbots. These take away the experience of the game right? That's what I mean by abusing power vs just influencing.

In that dream, I chose the dream scenario i.e. civilizations of celestials with two factions. I then set out to resolve the conflict of the world. You can say I choose the "Celestial Queen" class if we look at itt like a game. Suppose two players can cloose to be queen of each faction, suppose I just happen to be my team's defacto leader based on discord chats and choose to lead a faction. Rest of the dream I go through it based on the rules of the dream and ablities that were defined before the start of that dream. Purpose of the dream was for me to experience goldy ablities, have some fast-paced exciting godly fights, learn to resolve conflicts, and bring everyone together. It was for fun and something to build experience sustaining a presistent dream world. Here, if I had overrode dream rules with my dream control everytime things didn't go my way. I'd say It's akin to using cheat codes etc. I hope my example of likening it to games didn't cause more confusion. ^^'