What's your purpose in LD?

[Wieniawski]

Hey lucidipedia,

I wonder if any of you has a concrete purpose for lucid dreaming.I'm a violinist. My great goal in LD is being able to study my pieces while lucid dreaming, to exercise my memory, first I memorize what I'm playing while awake and while dreaming I'd practice to make it solid. That's my main goal in LD, I wonder if it is possible or if anyone else has tried or is also seeking a goal of this kind.
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[Danny]

Oh it's totally possible.
Say, the night before a performance of yours you can just decide to have a lucid dream of the performance and have that whole experience before you do the real thing!

Oh yeah, I just want to have fun in my dreams. I also want to practice certain things in my dreams.

[Pluisje]

I just wanna have a lot of fun during my dreams, just wanna wake up with a feeling like "that was an awesome dream"

[BodyChanger]

1st purpose: Entertainment and fun =) as a wizard beating enemies, parcours and other movie moves

2nd purpose: Creativity, i can model the whole world, therefore the dreamworld is my masterpiece =)

3nd purpose: Experience things which arent possible in real life like synasthesia, shapeshifting usw.

[jmbradley90]

For me it's an escape. Forgetting about reality for just a while, and entering your own mind's world. Doing things the real world simply wouldn't allow. To rejuvinate myself, so when I wake up I immediately feel full of emotion and sensation.

"In dreams, emotions are overwhelming" The Science of Sleep

[BodyChanger]

Escaping from real world isnt really good . I think lucid dreaming has more to do with awareness than escaping. I have to be more present in real world to have an experience in lucid dreaming

[Thunal]

My first reason was just to experience awesomeness. At first I didn't really know what I could do, but I just wanted to try it.
Now, my first reason is to get one with my unconscious and do speedstudy, get philosophical answers to all my questions (or the question to the answer 42), get knowledge about the brain (and psychology), have fun and experience feelings impossible to feel irl (like being part of a mass consciousness, experiencing 4D, nD (a n-dimensional space) and other odd things.

It's quite a long list.
Oh, and tonight I've got to have a lucid dream, so I can speedstudy and ace the next test week!

[Cadellin]

after my first lucid dream, Shniboo and I composed a list of 60ish targets and goals. Nothing spiritual or philosophical, just cool stuff like throwing cars, flying through space etc. since the list began, we have managed two of those goals- telekinesis and flight.

[Shniboo]

all the cool stuff is, well, cool. But i think one of my main goals would be to understand. The first fully conscious act i want to do is to summon a dream guide. Someone who can explain everything to me, and even explain myself to me. If that makes any sense. The best kind of Lucid experience i think is one that affects your entire life. Why keep everything that happens in this world staying in just your head?
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[dylan9236]

For me it's all about doing things that would normally be impossible. Nothing specific; it's just that I don't see the point of using an alternate reality to do things that are already possible in waking reality.

[booker]

'my first reason was just to experience awesomeness' Ha! I love it

As a matter of fact I used to be an avid drummer (unfortunately 'used to') as I did practice some drum lines while lucid dreaming. I found that it seemed that in the lucid state it was far easier to learn - to coordinate all the different limb movements - and often when I went to play the same line or part while awake the next day or so I could play it much better, even after just a little playing around with it in a lucid dream.

So I'd say go ahead!

[Finnick_the_dreamer]

I just want to be with my crush and do cool stuff like shapeshifting
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[bakufun1]

1 see what i can think of to do then do it
2 i usually want to get the feeling of (i finally did this!)
3 experiment (shared dream, take part in my fan-fic to get ideas ect.)
4 spiritual stuff like finding my true-self ect.
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my current goal: fly with wings, teleport, master dream fighting skills, epic battle vs my evil side.

[46&2]

Seek answers to questions I have. Knowledge and discovery of progressive ideas to benefit our lost humanity. Return to where I belong.

[Presence]

I'd like to be able to convince the part of my mind (partially subconscious, mainly unconscious?), which creates every character and builds every environment, that it is creating the whole thing and that none of it is truly 'real'. I want it to understand that it is a creation of itself and not a true reality, but an illusion of the real thing. Like if I'm talking to a character in my dream, and I say, "You're a dream character," I want it to truly understand the truth of that statement rather than deny it. Then I want to see what happens. Probably nothing --literally.

Edit: To be more concise, I want my unconscious/subconscious to be lucid.