Michael McMahon

That sounds a lot like the uncanny valley where our mind gets confused by attributing consciousness to deceptive objects or hallucinations that resemble the shape of conscious humans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

A shortcut to achieve that lying position is to camp out in the woods in a small tent! You won't be able to move much and the ground will be highly uncomfortable. The backdrop of the trees and night-sky will aid your spiritual mindset for lucid dreaming.

I originally posted a thread about lucid dreaming on a physics forum but it was deemed too speculative by the moderator. I then put it up on a philosophy forum and I got a few interesting replies from philosophy debaters. I'm wondering what would fellow lucid dreamers think about a connection between free will and dreams? We tend to take free will for granted even though the actual bare content of most of our thoughts and actions would seem to be less computationally demanding than an automated voice you'd hear on a sat-nav map or telephone waiting line menu! I think it's how we slowly come to the finished products of perceived thoughts and concluded insights that require the rough work and mental energy of our free will. https://onlinephilosophyclub.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15514