Lucid dreams
Dreams are always in the past. Recalled in reality, dream – is a fragment, an island of coherent experience in the sea of visionless dreams.
During sleep, the eyes are closed and rest – so the experience of sleep is most often projected visually, by dreaming. In that part of the nervous system that is most free.
Dreams, by and large, are seen by the intestines, which are often even called the «second brain» – so many nerve cells are in it.
That's why one wants to sleep after a hearty meal.
Sleep is the assimilation of food, experience, past.
The rational part of consciousness desperately resists being transferred to sleep, because in accordance with the purpose of both the intestines and sleep, it will be «digested».
Dreams are such a difficult experience to deal with that the subconscious mind cannot assimilate it without conscious intervention, and «shits» it into memory.
The dream, that remained in the memory is a task for consciousness, food for the «higher mind», while being a «belch» of the «lower» one.
The value of dreams comes while rationally, in reality, comprehending, realizing, solving them like a rebus that the subconscious mind has not coped with.
And not in being aware in a dream. This is simply inconvenient – and will, according to the logic of the process, lead to awakening.
«Lucid dreams» is a rare exception, an oxymoron, an uncomfortable state for both consciousness and subconsciousness.
If the unconscious copes with the processing of past experience, you will not see/remember a dream; and if it does not cope, it is better to wake up to solve the complex puzzle of that dream, turning on your mind «to its full extent».
The goal of the practice of lucid dreaming is not to be fully aware in a dream (which is just death, i.e. movement in the reverse flow of time relative to the past experience of life).
You can be successfully conscious either being NOT YOU in your dream (i.e. under a strong external influence on your mind – when the powerful will of another person «leads you» into a trance), or being you in an ALIEN DREAM (i.e. under a strong external influence on your animal instincts) – when the powerful will of other people is «digested» in your past. If NOT you conscious NOT in your dream, the memory will simply reject this information for lack of motive to store it.
An attempt of being aware in a dream is like a parachute jump – a close feeling of danger, a real threat gives a great impetus to further real actions.
An attempt to practice lucid dreaming has (for a living person) meaning only as a tool for more successfully achieving real life goals in the waking state.
The desire to not only see and recall dreams, but also to become aware in them – presupposes a significant strengthening of the «higher mind» relative to the «lower» one.
This (sincere) desire is a symptom, an indicator that your animal instincts are too powerful – therefore, you are most likely unhappy; your life is imbalanced; you (as an animal) can be both deceived and tamed – that's, in general, all the shortcomings of instinct, not balanced by an appropriate amount of reason.
The recommendation that can be given based on this symptom is simple: if you want your dreams to be lucid – start living in a lucid reality. Yes, most likely you will find a lot of lies and manipulations (which can be very difficult to admit) – but getting rid of them (which is impossible without detection) can bring a truly fabulous, like a waking dream, life (compared to the past).
A life in which you sometimes just want to sleep. For relaxation.
In addition to the recommendation, there is also a recipe: stop eating random things. Vegetarianism, diets, therapeutic fasting are just for you, since you are so drawn to the LD. The energy freed from the absence of the need to digest heavy assorted food will allow your consciousness to make useful conclusions.