lucid dreaming

i got a chance to have a chat with the advisor about this while we were waiting for my protocol to be reviewed. he thinks that all dreams are lucid dreams, that steve laberge is rubbish and should not be taken seriously, and that people should do real science rather than try and make the headlines with sexy, unfalsifiable nonsense. i asked him to clarify what he meant by "all dreams are lucid dreams", and he said that beyond a certain developmental stage, we are always able, at the point of self-reflection, to distinguish dreams from reality, and that moreover there's always a "meta-awareness" within a dream that is making the distinction (which is why when we "die" in a dream, we don't really die). this seemed to me to be finessing the definition more than anything else, but the advisor was unmoved, and i had no particular interest in trying to disabuse him. i am very curious now though to get other experts' opinions on the matter, because i had been given to believe that laberge was at the very least not doing psuedoscience. that shall be my mission for the neuroscience conference this year. i hope tononi doesn't think i'm an idiot.