LUCID DREAMING...LUCID LIVING

Some claim that if you can stay awake while dreaming, the problems that present themselves in dreams can be solved, or better, dis-solved.   Certainly if you are not "awake" in the dream you are subject to the unconscious dictates of the dream.  If one is in wakeful consciousness, presumably living,  you still may well not be "lucid" or conscious of being conscious of what you are conscious of.  That is, you may well be sleepwalking through wakefulness.  So just as one can awaken in the dream and at least consider whether there really is a problem in what appears to be fearful or painful, so also one can awaken to a consciousness of one's wakefulness and thereby overcome the fear and pain of not being awake and in charge while we are awake.  But possibly it is enough to be fully awake whether dreaming or living and thereby not suffering the colorings of a mind that commandeers our conscious control and locks us in the repetitive story of fear, pain, worry, or otherwise, suffering and frustration.  When one remembers the past, do we really remember the past or the 'story' of the past in which suffering had already become a part.  When we think of the future do we propose and plan to act or do we import the story of the past and project it onto a thereby past-determined future?  So if it is possible to lucidly dream, it is possible to lucidly live.