Thread: Better way to set intent (?) | Taking Lucidity For Granted

Originally Posted by IndigoRose

Another possible problem with your idea could be that it could lead to doing the intended goal non-lucidly. If your goal is about some experience (flying, eating food, going to Mars), it probably doesn't matter that much, lucid or not, you experience what you wanted. But if it is something more complex, it would be a problem.

This. Most actions do not require lucidity to perform in a dream. Therefore, if you set the intention to perform a said action, you're more likely to have an induced non-lucid dream.

Waking yourself up is an exception because you wouldn't do that non-lucidly. However, it's also not a very useful one, because most of us want to stay in the dream. I think it would require a lot of creativity to think of other actions that must be done lucidly, without actually setting an intention to become lucid. You might see some success with becoming lucid after doing the intended action, by way of realizing you must be dreaming if you did the action.

I don't think it's a bad practice, I just think it's not likely to pan out the way you want it to most of the time. That, and I'm not sure it is going to be any more effective than just intending to become lucid in the first place. Maybe I'm wrong? I do hope you find success with it. Good luck.