Narrow-mindedness

Category: Realization
Lucid: YES

I was in a busy gym with tons of people. For some reason I went outside and started walking down the street. I passed several people on the way, until I eventually became lucid. "This is a dream."

Then I noticed a silence form around me. I decided to walk back to the gym to see if the people were still there. Suddenly the road back to the gym was ten times longer than it was when I started walking. The streets were all empty now. When I got to the gym, I noticed that it was empty as well.

And then I had a realization - when I became lucid, my mind shut down and focused entirely on myself being in a lucid state in the dream world - like the part of my imagination that was creating all the hustle and bustle around me ceased to continue. It's like I narrowed my mind too much - like I was using too much of my mental RAM that it couldn't have any other supporting dream functions going, excepting for showing me the street I wanted to walk down, and the building I wanted to enter.

I feel like I've learned something from this:
Narrow-mindnedness might get you to your goal, but you might miss out on all the fun along the way.