I had a nightmare last night. Normally if a dream goes bad, I am able to realize that it is a dream and try to direct it to a better place. Last night I was hiding behind a wall and people were shooting at me. A friend was shot with some large caliber bullet and was a bloody mess. I kept on saying “Lucid” over and over to myself, but I didn’t get the hint and never knew it was just a dream. I was telling myself in the dream that it was only a dream, but I didn’t get it and thought it was real. I woke up and had trouble getting back to sleep.

This is like a mathematical problem. Some problems cannot be solved without breaking out into another level to get the information not contained in the realm of the problem. Gödel showed basically that mathematical systems have built in limits to completeness.

If you think of a three dimensional person talking to a two dimensional person. The two dimensional person must take some things on faith because some 3D concepts are inconceivable in the 2D world, but still needs them to understand his own world completely. In lucid dreams you have to rely on the non-dreaming person to be aware that you are dreaming. If, within the dream, you can’t imagine that it is a dream, you can’t be lucid, unless you stress yourself to the point of waking up. Sometimes I can break out of a dream and direct the dream as a dream without waking up, and sometimes I am unaware that I am dreaming. What the difference is, I don’t know. In the dream last night, I somehow knew it was a dream,because I kept repeating “Lucid”, but I did not listen to myself.