Repetita iuvant, what I’m looking for here is not at all the replacement of the term Lucidity, but rather putting a new term side by side with it: there’s no “instead”, only “also”
The term lucidity is in fact widely used, shared as a definition, and it should definitely stay where it is; what I’m saying is, conscious as referred to dreams is also a widely known definition, and I would be glad if it was recognized as such inside the forum too (with the proper acronym recognition)
Actually, that’s kind of my point here.
To be honest, I’ve get pretty used to the terms myself, and I know by the time I’ve passed here that they’re just acronyms, and not much else, to the point even if some of these terms are accepted too, I’ll continue calling my DJ “My Lucid journal”, since I like how it sounds.
But to the beginner, they can pretty much define what they’re looking for, and set the bars for the percieved difficulty/average frequence etc.: in this sense, they’re not harmless at all, and that’s the exact reason why I’m trying to get some more neutral terms in use too (especially something in addiction to ND), so that the transition torwards successful LD’ing can be smoother.
You can see I decided to become a Scribe pretty fast, and the reason was the obvious one: there’s people to inform out there, and I wanted to help. In the same spirit, I’m asking for these terms to come into use.
What I know is, when I was much more inexperienced and came to this forum, if I had seen terms like Conscious and Non-conscious Dreaming used in some DJ’s (not every DJ, mind you ), I could have got a different viewpoint on things from the start, that lucid dreaming is not a big and complex thing as it sounds at first, and you don’t get ND’s becuase it’s “normal”, but just because you weren’t aware, and that’s it. It may sound silly, but at a subconscious level, the way you see things can be greatly influenced by the way you call them (remember He-who-shall-not-be-named from Harry Potter? That name only fueled the fear torwards the man even more), until you learn to see them with the right angle, using your own experience. But before the experience came, I would have been very grateful to see such terms in use too, alongside LD and ND, to get a clearer idea of things.
And since I think it would have been useful for myself, I guessed it could aid other members too, just that.
That’s what I was trying to convince people in the first post about: there are indeed several good reasons IMHO why terms like CD and NCD should be used too.
I’m sorry, but I should call out your error instead.
Lucidness, like all other properties, has various levels, and we’re able to call a dream “lucid” or “non-lucid” just because we’ve been trying for years to draw a definite line on this. I bet that if we tried that hard, we could draw lines like that about any property of a dream, and call it fragmented or not, blurry or not, and such. Moreover, IIRC, lucidness is a form of consciousness, and you said too that consciousness is not an on/off switch.
What you’re saying here is, we call something by a wrong name, just because it’s convention? I bet we could do a little thing about it, as little as giving people a synonym to use, if they like so, that has a much more neutral implied meaning.