Quote Originally Posted by Oneironaut
Lucid dreaming is, without a doubt, the most awesome experience I have ever had. I am lucky to be able to have them with such ease. You become god of your own simulated universe. There's just no beating that for awesomeness. There's so much about reality and consciousness and experience to learn through lucid dreaming. In a recent lucid dream, I learned a deeper understanding of how the self is an illusion, as is time, that all mental states are of equal value, and that my separation from the rest of the cosmos is an illusion created by the limitations of the current mental state in this corner of the universe.

It's kind of hard to explain, but it helps to contemplate the fact that there is no real "essence" of you; nothing in you that could be taken away and it wouldn't be you anymore. Every atom in your body is an atom that was not part of you seven years ago, and in seven years or so you will be a completely new set of atoms. You are more like a wave of particles than a mass of stuff, constantly flowing through space and time, forever changing and becoming something new and different. All mental states are just momentary stages in various waves that are the nervous systems of various evolved creatures. Every mental state perceives itself as separate from another, because it has only limited knowledge, namely that knowledge that has been inscribed into its neural structure by the past states of the nervous system's waveform. But ultimately this separation of subjectivities is an illusion. If somebody was able to make an instant exact copy of your brain, molecule for molecule, with some advanced technology that we don't have yet, then the new brain's mental state would be just as much a continuation of your current experience as your original brain's continuation of that mental state. You would experience a continual flow of existence in two separate beings. If you think about it, you realize that the universe is experiencing itself subjectively through all consciousnesses in the universe at all times, and it experiences itself as entities which have limited knowledge which creates an illusion within that being that the universe is experiencing itself only through that being.

It was a lot to take in, but...wow. I love the deep philosophical lucid dreams. And also the lucid dreams where I just have crazy sex and make all kinds of cool explosions and stuff.
Really well put. I'll rep you when I can.
I wish I could find someone like you in person...
I need a psych buddy...

Whenever I've stumbled upon lucidity, it usually turns into a nightmare or I wake up. I'll start going crazy with power, flying and changing everything really fast and then all of a sudden something will catch my attention and I will lose lucid concentration and my powers will sort of weaken, like half-work, I'll be able to fly only a certain height or my legs will turn to jelly and then the whole Chase factor starts in and... oh well...
As with most good things, lucid dreaming seems to take discipline.
Try try try again.