lucid dreaming is a very useful tool if you can spot and dismiss the garbage
Could you provide some examples about how exactly it can be useful? What difference did it make in your life? (Providing "insights" is valuable only if you really acted on them later.)
This book has lots of examples in chapters 8 and 9 and maybe 7 and 10.
Some ways lucid dreaming has improved my own life:
It's helped me come up with good ideas for high school creative writing assignments. So far I've acted on three of these, with very good results.
It's helped me to practice better social skills and get over social anxieties.
I used it to practice piano back when I played piano.
Back when I took a first aid class, I used it to practice those techniques and to get over the emotions that can make first aid hard.
I've tried to use it to
As everyone here knows, it would be a stupid idea to switch from airplanes to cars out of safety/terrorism concerns: Cars are a much more risky means of transportation than airplanes. But what other major risks are there that many people systematically undervalue or are not even consciously aware of?
The same can be asked for chances.