Lucid Dreaming -- Is it a good or bad idea?

A Lucid Dream is a dream in which you are aware you are dreaming and you may even be able to decide how you want the dream to proceed. I have occasionally had them, but never concentrated effort on how to make all my dreams lucid ones. There are supposedly techniques you can employ to learn lucid dreaming, and then routinely slip into a dream space where you are aware it’s a dream, and you are able to exert control over the script.

Some psychologists think that dreaming may be an activity our brain uses to keep itself healthy, working out stresses, fears and emotional pains of the waking world. Others speculate that it’s just a healthy brain occupying itself in play at night because there’s nothing else to do and it’s bored.

If the mental-maintenance theory of dreaming is true, then scripting your dreams consciously would seem a risky venture. Your script might divert the brain away from working on important issues, leaving them to fester. If the bored-brain theory of dreaming is correct, then what better use of the idle mind than to script and direct your own mental movies complete with total sensory immersion?

How many Jellies experience lucid dreaming? How many have worked toward being consciously able to dream lucidly? If you studied how, what program did you use and did it work? Does anyone here routinely have lucid dreams? Does routinely having lucid dreams seem to impact the restorative power of your sleep? Does it boost or diminish your sleep’s restorative power? If you routinely have lucid dreams, and it it has no deleterious impact on your mental health or rest, then wouldn’t that debunk the mental-maintenance theory of dreaming?