Dreamwalker...

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So exactly how does one dreamwalk?  Is it an out of body thing, dreamwalkers going to that person and joining the dream via the real-time zone?  Or do they enter your dream from their own dreamworld (or you enter theirs from your dream) and if so, how do you know it's not just your own dream, where you're dreaming about their dream, and it's not their dream at all?

What technique does everyone use to get lucid, and how effective is it?  I've been keeping a dream journal and I'm at a point where I can remember most of my dreams without even writing them down, just as I can with waking memory... there's not much fading.  But becoming aware in the dream is still a problem.  I seem to accept the weirdest things.  You'd think you'd be aware you're dreaming if you found yourself in the body of a monkey chasing superman around with a torch (for example) wouldn't you?  Though at one point my torch went out, and I was just vaguely aware of consciously wanting to relight it... but it kept going out anyway.

Anyone ever use lucid dreams for mental labwork?  Like, create a dream lab and go back to it whenever you dream, and have all the stuff you created last time, still there.  Or even people, advisors?

What exactly is the dream world?  Your imagination?  Events going on in an astral plane?  While you're sleeping, you're projecting... is your consciousness projecting inside your etheric body still, or has it just shifted to a very high plane, in one of your astral doubles?  Is the out-of-body voyage just a dream then (if dreams are projections)?

Lots of questions, at least now I know which questions I want to ask.  It seems lucid dreaming is easier than leaving your body... no fear barrier to deal with, don't have to worry about getting into the right state to do it, and don't have to worry about losing sleep or being too sleepy... and you can use the dream to project, right?