Lucid dreaming is one of the coolest things we can do. People think that dreams aren't real, but that's far from the truth. They aren't real in the sense that if I find a COOL WATCH or I win $2000 in a dream I can't take it with me to "real life," but when you think about what our life really is, it's a collection of experiences...not accumulation of physical objects.
In dreams you can have the same experiences you have in waking life but even more so. You can take these experiences with you when you are done dreaming. Lucid dreaming takes this even further. You can imagine a problem you have is a tangible object (a bug or something) in your dream and squish it. Although this seems purely symbolic, you can take the feeling of having dealt with a problem into waking life, which will give you more energy to do the same in your interactions with waking life.
Not to mention in lucid dreams you can fly everywhere you want to go, you can have sex with whoever you want however you want, you can be a bear or a toad or a tree, you can be three of yourself at the same time, you can slow down time, you can travel to the bottom of the ocean and you can see distant planets or the inside of a star. Is it real? Yes, because you are actually having these experiences, even if you are the only one having them.
This was very nice to see written down. Thank you for that. No doubt as LD becomes more and more popular we're going to see a lot of questionable info on the subject.
Some people are terrified of these experiences, perhaps with their own 'demons' to deal with. Others, many others, consider it one of the grooviest gifts imaginable :)
It's a unique thing, individual, but as it gets more known - we're going to see people trying to fit it into a simple box (as we always do) - and nothing useful will come of that.
Re: Gamma waves, hmm - yeah, isn't that like reading a frequency coming off a CRT and then trying to retransmit that frequency back to derive the original image? You need a serious understanding of the device to be able to do that. Perhaps it might be able to help 'induce' the state with the individual's help - maybe.
In dreams you can have the same experiences you have in waking life but even more so. You can take these experiences with you when you are done dreaming. Lucid dreaming takes this even further. You can imagine a problem you have is a tangible object (a bug or something) in your dream and squish it. Although this seems purely symbolic, you can take the feeling of having dealt with a problem into waking life, which will give you more energy to do the same in your interactions with waking life.
Not to mention in lucid dreams you can fly everywhere you want to go, you can have sex with whoever you want however you want, you can be a bear or a toad or a tree, you can be three of yourself at the same time, you can slow down time, you can travel to the bottom of the ocean and you can see distant planets or the inside of a star. Is it real? Yes, because you are actually having these experiences, even if you are the only one having them.