The only other thing I’d add with different intonation is that lucid dreaming is a fanciful trick that can get you some hot dream sex. Not sure this has a whole lot to do with colonization, unless hot dream sex is your sole M.O., in which case, all lucid dreaming privileges should be revoked by the Great Dreamer.

And you’re absolutely right – our culture will shift with the work we do as individuals. There’s nothing wrong in my book about seeing lucid dreaming as a means to explore sexuality, willpower, or manifestation of other pleasures.
These are all good ways to test ego-boundaries, which really need to be strong in order to then go about trying to dissolve them (such as through shamanic techniques or non-duality).
That is a strange paradox about the ego!

Ultimately, whatever one does in their dreams, it’ll go a lot smoother if compassion is ever-present.

there’s few allies for lucid dreamers who have made it through the newbie stage, tho, and realize there’s more to lucid dreaming than anything you want.

Thanks for stopping by my blog. I’ll be sure to discuss some of the climate issues from the conference, once I collect my thoughts. I’ve also added you to my blogroll.

Here’s to “the way of participation” and a naturalistic approach to looking at the so-called subconscious and awareness (wearing the cloak of consciousness).
Reason seems one way of relating to the world, but when it becomes the only way or the only accepted way, then we become further divorced from the totality of our being.
Thanks for bringing some insight.