What to do when lucid?

[skydust]

Hi all,

Ive been meaning to ask this for some time now. What things can we do when we become lucid? Is there a way we can do anything meaningful? eg, speak to spirit guides, access past lives, have obes, etc, or get access to information we wouldnt during waking life.

Flying and sticking my hands/head through walls can be fun, but it doesnt seem like a meaningful experience in the sense that i have a feeling i could be getting so much more out of these states of being.

Do you have any suggestions what to do when lucid?

Thanks.

[Mydral]

Try to convince people in your dream that its just a dream.

[Kraven Obscuria]

Try to convince people in your dream that its just a dream.

Thats always fun, sometimes I get laughed at......
Then I realize in the time I tried to convince others of the current condition, I could have done something else.  Sometimes, I try to get someone's name or phone number/address to validate later.

Usually when I become lucid, I try hard to ignore all the other things going on.  Sit down on the ground, and try to raise my level of vibration and "will" myself to a higher(inner)plane.  A couple of times it has been wildely successful and profound.  Other times, I have just woken up. 

Sometimes when lucid, I try to vibrate a mantra/and or draw energy.  This seems to be a decent way of utilizing the lucid state, rather than interacting with the carnival of events that can happen during this state.

[cainam_nazier]

I usually try to explore the location that I am at and try to figure out why I am there.  I also tend to look at the event in the dream that triggered my lucid state.  I usually do that with some of the stranger triggers.  Some times I just live the moment and react to the enviroment the way I would normally.  That has lead me to some interesting things.

I stopped trying to convince people in the dreams that it was infact a dream.  This is because I came to a realization after having a couple of discussions here.  When your mind creats a dream world it assigns a given personality to all the people in it.  And for the most part they do not know it as being any different from the real world.  They think and function as your mind has preset them too.  I have had difficulty changing that preset after becoming lucid.  There are those however in your dreams that are designed to know that it is in fact a dream.  Those people tend to be some kind of teaching tool created by your mind for better understanding.  But when your mind creats a hotdog vendor they tend to stay as one, only knowing about the hotdogs and very little else.

So I stopped trying to convince people and rather seek out those who were designed to understand.