[baq]

Sorry to hear that and sorry for nagging you but I couldn't possibly be more intrigued after reading this! Can't you just like dream up a bed or a nice hammock on a beautiful Caribbean beach and go to sleep in the dream or something? Or is my understanding of what lucid dreaming (having never experienced it, probably... never tried on purpose, never wondered about it) too much like Inception and not enough like it really is?

[marklubi]

I've never felt tired in a lucid dream, so the thought of going to bed in the dream doesn't make any sense for me... I've always been wide awake in them.

There are some benefits to it if you're able to harness it. I've solved plenty of different programming problems in my dreams, only to get up in the morning and then go through the motions again to make them real. Sometimes it feels like the day is just on cruise control because you've already done this.

[smusamashah]

And while in lucid state, does time feel faster/slower or about the same? I get lucid dreams sometimes but either I get too conscious and wakeup or eventually forget that I was lucid therefore I haven't been able to experiment much with it.

So for you do you spend whole 8 hours lucid and does it actually feel like that?

[marklubi]

I don't really have a reference to gauge if it's slower or faster, but I would say that it mostly just feels normal.

If I had to pick one or the other, I would say that it feels slower... maybe more like tedious since I can't actually accomplish much.