Lust and Lucidity

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Once you gain a degree of lucidity, the texts talk about all the crazy things you can do to your dreams and their characters. Test your power. Turn the dream inside out, reverse it, speed it up, slow it down, stop it completely.You can be every leaf on a tree, or every star in the sky. 

Are “you” still there, inside your dream, like you usually are? No. “You” are now all the characters, and all the points in the landscape, so if you choose, you can erase the entire dream and just stand back as the Void. 

The creator of the dream and all its dream characters are one since the beginning anyway, so this is in no way a “new” state of being. But it is a new state of consciousness or self-actualization. 

And something has changed forever for your own dream character self, your own conventional "I", because your dream character knows that it is just a dream character now, just like any of the other dream characters, and thus it's not stuck solely inside the dream. Of course, you can slip out of lucidity, loose contact with the creator of the dream due to fear or lust projected from your dream self. But those things (fear and lust) can also slip you into lucidity! Lust in particular will pull you right back into your dream genitals like a whip, which is why lust or sexual energy is a great dream omen. Whenever you feel lust during the day, just think “I am dreaming,” which is true enough, and generate more lucidity into the lust. This habit will follow you into the dream, making lust a dream-trigger. 
In this way, lust is a vehicle to lucidity, not a hindrance. It is usually a hinderance. Personally when I'm lusting and sexual, I more often than not forget "this is a dream." I get drunk off the shit and momentarily loose mindfulness, recoil into a desiring, self-centered blissful self, and contract. you know what I'm saying?

Lust can become a lucidity-inducer with just a simple tantric flip.