Idea, potentially theory.

**Kror** · 10-16-2013 08:59 PM

I've been thinking for the past few months or so about dreams.

Dreams are said to be the gateway to the subconscious. The subconscious makes up most of our behavior and obviously can be given suggestions through rigorous conscious changes in making decisions or hypnotherapy where you are brought to an extremely relaxed state and given suggestions.

I'm curious if you could alter your own behavior through lucid dreaming in the sense that this is 'the ultimate suggestion'. For example, you could implement behaviors like studying for university more or quitting smoking, or as simple as finding tremendous amounts of joy in stupid pleasures, finding a penny, getting mail, etc.

Any thoughts or opinions, perhaps even an idea on how to tackle this objective. I have only studied psychology at the high school and entry level college level.
Kror

**Kror** · 10-17-2013 01:41 AM

~Extension:

I was reading around and controlling dreams and mirrors seem to have an impact on ourselves. Perhaps dream mirrors could be a doorway to altering our sub-conscious behavior. Allowing suggestions to be heard loud and clear. Any thoughts?

Kror

**DreamHighlander** · 10-17-2013 02:42 AM

I guess this is possible. I read it somewhere, i believe it was on Robert Waggoner's book, where he talks about that. People that quit smoking and other stuff through suggestions inside the lucid dream.

**JoannaB** · 10-17-2013 04:26 AM

Of course, it is possible. I am pretty sure that the reason part of the reason why I had a major personality change my freshman year in college had to do not just with college (though that certainly helped) but also with lucid dreaming - I was big into lucid dreaming back then. The way I believed it worked: lucid dream practice made me more self aware, I did not like what I saw, so I changed thoroughly. In that year I changed from being closed minded to open minded, conservative to liberal, huge changes.

**Kror** · 10-17-2013 05:37 AM

Originally Posted by DreamHighlander

I guess this is possible. I read it somewhere, i believe it was on Robert Waggoner's book, where he talks about that. People that quit smoking and other stuff through suggestions inside the lucid dream.

Hey could you post the books name? thanks

Originally Posted by JoannaB

Of course, it is possible. I am pretty sure that the reason part of the reason why I had a major personality change my freshman year in college had to do not just with college (though that certainly helped) but also with lucid dreaming - I was big into lucid dreaming back then. The way I believed it worked: lucid dream practice made me more self aware, I did not like what I saw, so I changed thoroughly. In that year I changed from being closed minded to open minded, conservative to liberal, huge changes.

Would you go as far to say that there is a 'control panel' in our sub conscious that governs our behavior in situation by situation circumstances?

-Kror

**JoannaB** · 10-17-2013 06:37 AM

I would go as far as to say that lucid dreaming can be like accessing one's source code to allow one to reprogram one's personality (though not everyone chooses to use it that way of course). Not sure whether your control panel metaphor is like my source code programming metaphor, I am suspicious of control panels, they remind me of all the trouble I have operating our TV remote controls, so that metaphor does not jive with me.

**DreamHighlander** · 10-17-2013 06:38 AM

The book is called Lucid Dreaming - A Gateway to the Inner Self. I'm not 100% sure that it talks about that subject but i highly recommended it. Excellent book that talks much about every aspect of lucid dreaming.

**Kror** · 10-18-2013 03:27 AM

Originally Posted by JoannaB

I would go as far as to say that lucid dreaming can be like accessing one's source code to allow one to reprogram one's personality (though not everyone chooses to use it that way of course). Not sure whether your control panel metaphor is like my source code programming metaphor, I am suspicious of control panels, they remind me of all the trouble I have operating our TV remote controls, so that metaphor does not jive with me.

I can completely agree with calling it a source code, or the boot kernels. I just figured, control panel would give more people the idea.

Originally Posted by DreamHighlander

The book is called Lucid Dreaming - A Gateway to the Inner Self. I'm not 100% sure that it talks about that subject but i highly recommended it. Excellent book that talks much about every aspect of lucid dreaming.

thank you very much for the book idea, I'm going to hunt down a pdf.

-Kror

**Hishtar** · 10-23-2013 04:37 PM

Originally Posted by DreamHighlander

The book is called Lucid Dreaming - A Gateway to the Inner Self. I'm not 100% sure that it talks about that subject but i highly recommended it. Excellent book that talks much about every aspect of lucid dreaming.

I believe it does talk about quitting smoking and other tasks like that through lucid dreaming. I've not finished the book, I'm halfway through and unfortunately have been reading it for almost a year now. I don't have much time to devote to it!