Newbie Question - Actual benefits of Lucid Dreaming

[TiredPhil]

I am curious as to what benefits Lucid Dreaming has brought forum members. Am talking about after you have finished dreaming, and in in the waking world. I have read all about what Lucid Dreaming "Can do." but not about what it actually has done. Apologies if this matter has been covered a dozen times already. Phil

[Raphael]

Why Lucid Dreaming? I can't think of much else to say, just give that a read

[Matte87]

Awesome entertainment! Dreams are real while they last. The difference between dreaming experiences and awake, is that you can share the awake ones, and they have consequences.

[TiredPhil]

So, no benefit at all so far. Lucid dreaming is just another X-box or PS3 to play with.

[Raphael]

You don't find any of this beneficial? (these were listed in the link I posted, in case you didn't look at it) Artistic Inspiration Social Practice Stopping Nightmares Problem Solving Personal and Spiritual Exploration

[Loonybin Resident]

If you are one of those people who wake up super drowsy, waking up from a lucid dream actually makes you feel a bit more energetic (I guess depending on who you are). Anyway I don't think you can compare lucid dreaming to a video game console unless it's the year 3000 and maybe even then they wont have virtual reality gaming as wonderful as lucid dreaming. You're pretty much God in your own little world. Why not give it a try and figure it out?

[TiredPhil]

You don't find any of this beneficial? (these were listed in the link I posted, in case you didn't look at it) Artistic Inspiration Social Practice Stopping Nightmares Problem Solving Personal and Spiritual Exploration Looks like you misunderstood my question. What has Lucid Dreaming done for you ? Not - What can Lucid Dreaming do for you. As for someone wanting to be GOD then there must be an underlying problem with their sanity. Watch Bruce Almighty sometime.

[Matte87]

So not wanting to waste 30% of ones time on total darkness is not enough? It's up to each and everyone to decide what's worth ones time. I used to have alot of nightmares and hallucinations, they have almost gone away (and the ones I do have are actually enjoyable now). Not wasting time during sleep, entertainment and nightmare counter.

[TiredPhil]

So not wanting to waste 30% of ones time on total darkness is not enough? It's up to each and everyone to decide what's worth ones time. I used to have alot of nightmares and hallucinations, they have almost gone away (and the ones I do have are actually enjoyable now). Not wasting time during sleep, entertainment and nightmare counter. So, we have at least one reply. Entertainment, and nightmare countering. This will improve anyones waking life. To wake from a peacefull nights sleep, where nightmares have been controlled, must be a true benefit. Good one Matte.

[dakotahnok]

I have practiced speaking I'm front of my entire school. In the dream I wasn't nervous at all because... It was a dream, but when I actually spoke in front of the school a few days later I wasn't nervous because I felt like I already have done it. Also entertainment and getting rid of nightmares like matte87 said.

[Polarity]

Lucid dreaming and accomplishing personal dreaming tasks help me start the day afresh and positively.

[whiterain]

Looks like you misunderstood my question. What has Lucid Dreaming done for you ? Not - What can Lucid Dreaming do for you. As for someone wanting to be GOD then there must be an underlying problem with their sanity. Watch Bruce Almighty sometime. knowing you are in a dream does not make you a god. lucid does not equal dream control , just dream awareness. personally learning to lucid dream gave me a whole new lease of life, and pretty much wiped away years of minor depression. also as a fellow tired person, it has helped me get much better sleep, and plan my life around being healthier and looking after myself, rather than the common self destructive patterns many people unwittingly find themselves in. after a lucid these days i bounce out of bed ready to write it down and live another day in order to make the next one even more amazing and life affirming also there is on better way to learn about yourself and your hopes and fears. its easy to find out how your irrational fears hold you back in real life the same as they do in dreams. im still working on that one though

[AngelKiss]

I used dreaming once to solve a problem... I had to write my master thesis and had read lots of stuff about the topic. However, I wasn't able to develop a concept for my thesis. I tried for days... Then I woke up in the middle of the night with the entire concept ready... I immediately wrote it down (took me more than an hour). I felt really enthusastic about the concept and went to show it to my supervisor... unfortunately he shot it down by saying something very similar has already been done and he couldn't approve this concept In the end I went with another suggestion he made... I wasn't very motivated to finish my thesis with the new topic. EDIT: I can't really remember the dream, so I don't know if it was lucid... but it gave me a result to my problem.

[Erii]

well, like Dakotah said, it is very good for overcoming fears, I've heard if you do something in a dream, then do it in WL you are less afraid, well if it it physically possible that is xD also, exploring your mind, escaping from reality, etc, etc. There are benefits for sure

[futureghost]

I learned origami in one night. I didn't practice it after that and eventually I forgot how to do it many months later but I think it still illustrates that lucid dreaming is immensely useful. Your mind captures uncountably many details and it stores them in the form of a refined feeling of how things are. It's entirely possible to measure how well one has understood what what assumes they know about the universe they live in through a careful observation of how far from clear comprehension this feeling falls. If it doesn't fall far from comprehension at all in some respect it is almost always the case that one can simulate that aspect of reality in great detail within a lucid dream and if this is the case then one can practice those skills relating to that area of reality with a very high degree of certainty that what is learned will be accurate enough to use in waking life. that seems pretty useful to me.

[Greebo]

It has helped my confidence.

[every987]

I learned how to stop many of my nightmares. As someone who can feel pain or be tickled in their dreams nightmares can be really unpleasent. By becoming aware I can force myself to awake and stop it before it can get bad.

[Baron Samedi]

I am curious as to what benefits Lucid Dreaming has brought forum members. Am talking about after you have finished dreaming, and in in the waking world. I have read all about what Lucid Dreaming "Can do." but not about what it actually has done. Apologies if this matter has been covered a dozen times already. Phil The real question is: what do you want to do with lucid dreaming? or what do you want it to do for you?

[XeL]

I am curious as to what benefits Lucid Dreaming has brought forum members. Am talking about after you have finished dreaming, and in in the waking world. I have read all about what Lucid Dreaming "Can do." but not about what it actually has done. Apologies if this matter has been covered a dozen times already. Phil Couple of things it has done for me: 1. Improved my awareness in waking life. 2. Improved my ability to concentrate in waking life. 3. Waking up from a great lucid dream provides energy that can last throughout the day! 4. FUN! FUN! FUN! Tons of fun. So, no benefit at all so far. Lucid dreaming is just another X-box or PS3 to play with. Fun is a benefit.

[opaque lens]

being aware in a dream, is on one level to be as awareness experiencing a different level of being in a different environment of dimensions. therefore giving the opportunity to really rediscover a lost capability or a part of our being which we haven't been aware of in our normal functioning being. and this kind of discovery is of an opening to a much more higher and vaster form of reality, or really uncovering our capabilities and the opportunities that our truer forms of beingness represents. to relate to ourselves in the physical world as beings we relate outward and as a reflection of that we relate also inward. in such way, within the experience of a lucid dream, the outward which encompesses a different kind of a physical outwardness level, causes the gateway of knowing the more deeper kind of inwardness, wich brings more depth and a satisfying truth of that knowledge. so, lucid dreaming is a practice which in turn can act as a gateway to a being "lucid" in all of our being, that is also in the physical dimension, or to actually be a more realized and informed being, which one can say is our goal in this life - to uncover truth.