In responding to another post, it occurred to me that there is an inherent problem embedded in the very nature of Lucid Dreaming... allow me to quote myself:

Lucid Dreams may not represent the highest stage of dreaming, contrary as that may seem to all the propaganda put forward by this Page . Lucidity is only necessary if the Primitive Dream Self is seriously out of control -- if your Dream Self's conduct, choices and behavior are so out of synch with that of your waking self, then Lucidity becomes necessary in order to help integrate your Waking Self Persona with your Dream Self's Persona. However, if your Dream Self is relatively evolved and the choices your Dream Self makes are roughly the same choices that your Waking Self would make, then one can hardly see what Lucidity could do but disrupt the texture of what otherwise would be seamless dreams. As wonderful as Lucidity is, it always presents something of an interruption to the Dream flow and progression.

Also, Lucidity is inherently a betrayal of Dream Content. For the Dreamer to know that he is dreaming, the personal bias of his judgment must lean toward the idea that his Dream is no longer Real. I found even myself doing it -- saying to myself that the scenary, the hills, the bottlecaps laying on the ground "look so REAL", with the underlying supposition being that THEY ARE JUST A DREAM -- that, in fact, NONE OF IT IS REAL . In this way Dreamers who are Lucid tend to fundamentally dismiss the importance of their Dreams by negating their REALITY. We need to ask ourselves how this could really be so helpful. In a Non-Lucid Vivid Dream, the dreamer has the psychological advantage of supposing his Dream Reality is an actuality, that it is indeed Real, or at least seems so to the Dreamer. But this solidity explodes with the onset of Lucidity. I cannot see how this must automatically make anything better, when, in fact, it argues for a lesser dream. So I wonder that in our Dream Journals we so instantly rank a Lucid Dream over a Vivid Dream, when perhaps the scoring should be the other way around.