"The key difference between a typical dream and a lucid dream is simply one of awareness. An average dream occurs like a David Lynch movie, in evocative fragments. We experience the event, intimately, feeling terror, anxiety, or lust, whatever the dream provides. But we remain locked in the idea that everything we see is externally real. . . . The lucid dream stands this entirely on its head. In a lucid dream, we gain awareness of our true state. And lucidity strikes like lightening, rend [...]
