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

" No hornet's nests, no sticks. Reading every post, many of which seem intelligent and well-considered. And as much as lucid dreaming mightn't be something I'm looking at getting into right now, it's certainly interesting to hear people's thoughts and experiences, which I guess was the reason for posting in the first place."

I think you honestly are dipping your toes into this subject without much idea of how it works. Not meant to be negative, just honest. A normal dream can be bizarre and wonderfully deep and meaningful as your imagination can take it. A lucid dream can be as bizarre and wonderfully deep and meaningful as your imagination can take it. Only it's enhanced with more verbal details more interaction within yourself, and more likely to have meaningful repressed emotions and thoughts show up from deep within you. (I was shown my spirit animal in a lucid dream)

The right side of your brain provides visual, spatial, emotional basically dreams that tend to have meaning. The left hemisphere of the brain is involved primarily in the encoding and recall of verbal, temporal sequential, and language related memories during dreams. You can have one or both active during dreams despite being lucid or not. When one becomes lucid it tends to be that the left hemisphere is more in unison with the other leading to very meaningful dream with a lot of recall. They don't compete as you put it, what happens is the meaningful dream is remembered more and become more of a real life memory and less forgotten. Normal dreams are the tainted ones, as they don't get recorded in the left hemisphere as real vivid lifelike memory's.

The reason it's so hard to write down dreams is because REM sleep is driven by the right side of your brain. So you are loosing out on the meaningful dreams you claim to seek. I'd argue to give it a try. Being lucid does not mean a meaningful remembered experience is tainted, it actually means it's more remembered and more meaningful.

If you ever experience one you will know what we mean.