Consciousness studies 3 - Lucid dreaming

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Researching new fields can be intellectually stimulating, figuring out the way these things work and how to work with them is very challenging. Conventional psychology isn't always helpful and can become an impediment to progress.  Even more challenging is to translate findings into plain language without the mystic jargon.

One can learn to think outside the box.

But what is 'the box' that one must learn to think outside?

Well that would be conventional thought.

In many ways dreams are five dimensional. That is to say Length X Width X Height X Inside X Outside. The dream itself is contained within the dimension of inside, and to have an inside one needs an outside.  - The container and the contained. That means we can have a two-dimensional object without length width nor height.

Working these things out can be quite trippy in what it does to conventional intellectual thinking. More so to put it into practice.

Any armchair explorer can do this sort of research if they are inclined to try.

What it really is is introspection and when it comes to introspection, I'd rather reflect on my thoughts and actions from when I'm "fully there". In dreams, lucid or no, we are shadows of our conscious selves, and the psychology of this shadow is not that interesting to me when I have a perfectly good view of the real thing. I can see why it would be intriguing to others though, especially to spiritual people (which I am very much not).