This thread makes a lot of sense to me. Just like you say Rhewin, the subconscious is a good pal, and always wants to do its best by you. It’s the conscious mind that’s always getting in the way though. The subconscious always speaks quietly in the background without trying to raise its voice because it knows what it’s saying is sound. The conscious mind likes to jump up and down and wave its arms about and talk over the subconscious and drown it out because it’s insecure about the quality of what it has to say. The conscious mind’s biggest trick is confusing you to the point that you can’t tell either of them apart, and it’s dead good at it. I think that in all aspects of life, if you learn to close your eyes and filter out the noise of one when you don’t need it and learn to trust the other (even if it doesn’t seem to make logical sense), you can only grow.
I’ve still only got one proper fully-lucid dream, one or two partials, but I’m getting a lot of dreams of late that seem to be screaming at me from all angles to cotton on and catch the hell up. I’ve been unable to get them typed up for here though, due to low internet access, and I’m gettin lazy in writing them in my Journal. Currently I have about a weeks undated dreams spread over different bits of paper (that’s a job for me to fix tonight).
Funnily enough, one of these dreams was Doctor Who themed (being a big fan, I have a wee bit of dream history with that too) and involved the new Doctor and assistant on an adventure. The framing of the dream was that it was the start of the new series, and I was a bit unsure as to whether it was going to work or not writing-wise. Eventually, the “episode” seemed to have been going on all night without any sort of narrative thread being revealed. The Doctor and Amy were in an office searching through all sorts of drawers and knick-knacks trying desperately to find something, anything, that was going to kick-start the story and get things moving. When I woke up I was absolutely sure that the dream was all one big message from my subconscious, full of stuff I would never see in WL, telling me to get lucid so that the dream could actually get going and take me someplace useful.
The other one recently, I postedhere. I think this dream ties in with my first lucid dream, which involved flying and a dream guide from a long time ago too, who was kind of beckoning me out to play.