This is my first posting:
I have been investigating dreams and dreaming for the past forty years. I started in the 1960s after reading Carlos Castenda's first books. At that time I devised my own methods for "testing" based on my own needs and experiences. In 1989 I was introduced in Stephen Berger's book "Lucid Dreaming" and learned all his methods.
I am glad to see that many people are interested in lucid dreaming, and I wonder if there are other people on this message board who have some longevity of experience with this phenomenom. I am interested in the relationship between an increased lucidity in dreaming and an increased lucidity in waking life. Another way of saying this would be, do you think that the discipline of lucid dreaming self-examination can lead of a state of hightened emotional detachment in waking life?