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Comment by Varman on Better Rationality Through Lucid Dreaming · 2013-10-19T10:12:12.504Z · LW · GW

You notice absurdity in dreams with your "mind", which is already corrupted. E.g: you are conjunction-fallacy-man, see something in your dream, which works according to the math, find it absurd, wake up. Sure, active LD practice can increase your awareness, but I cannot see non-neglible result if you are already rising your sanity waterline with some CFAR-ish technics. If previous statement is false, then lucid dreamers are already more rational than general population. I haven't seen evidences for this hypotesis