Do you belive this could happen?

**VastAwakening** · 08-05-2010 04:16 AM

I have heard that some people have experienced dissociation while lucid dreaming. Meaning that the barriers of their waking life and dream life have weakened.

They have mixed up dream memories and events with real life ones, had a complete change of outlook on the world, waking up and not remembering how they got there or what their wearing.

And sometimes it even gets to the point where they feel depressed and alone.

I read a post on this forum about half a year ago, and it was about a guy who had experienced something like half a year in a dream without knowing it. Every event that he had remembered had been a creation of his mind. And he was freaking out for days. And that's completely understandable. He went through college courses that didn't exist, listened to new music that hasn't ever been written or recorded. That would be quite the shock.

Do any of you believe that one can experience dissociation because of lucid dreaming?

**AjWasHere** · 08-05-2010 05:58 AM

I have never heard of this. It seems a little extreme, but there have been occasions when I have contemplated if I ever accidentally thought a reality check came out for dreaming but I was awake. I suppose it would be possible to think you're dreaming when you're awake, which would confuse things. This whole scenario seems a little bit like Inception, aha. I think everybody confuses memories from dreams with those from real life from time to time, but I don't think it could ever be to the extent to make you nuts.

**Puffin** · 08-05-2010 08:28 AM

I've heard of it, but it's never happened with me before. At the same time, I don't think it could ever become as extreme as the scenario you posted about.

**pontozero** · 08-05-2010 01:48 PM

The scenario really seems a little bit extreme. The fact that someone does a lot of lucid dreaming just makes the dreams more present in the daily life, but I wouldn't believe someone actually would mix the two realities in such an hardcore manner. Not unless there was some pre-existent brain medical issue.

**changed** · 08-05-2010 01:54 PM

Sometimes i can't tell if a memory is from a dream or from reality... But that isnt really a big deal and i don't think that it has anything to do with Lucid Dreaming.

**Spectrum** · 08-05-2010 07:38 PM

Originally Posted by bradysdreaming

Sometimes i can't tell if a memory is from a dream or from reality... But that isnt really a big deal and i don't think that it has anything to do with Lucid Dreaming.

I'm pretty sure we've all done this at some point. I remember when I was younger I dreamed a lot more vividly than I usually do now, and on occasion, a few hours after waking up, I'd get confused between what had happened in the past few days and what I'd seen in my dreams.

**Elucive** · 08-05-2010 02:22 PM

Damn... that would be a shock. But idk, man. Like the others have said, that's pretty extreme.

**Sam1r** · 08-05-2010 02:49 PM

Hey...
Seems rather strange that something like that might happen...
But on the other hand,wouldn't it be like Waking Life(the movie) pretty cool,huh?
Haha...
Sam

**Philosopher8659** · 08-05-2010 03:18 PM

I fail to see how it could possibly happen. Memories from the ears do not displace memories from the eyes. etc.

Cognitive dysfunctions are not sensory triggered.

**ReachingForTheDream** · 08-08-2010 07:14 AM

I do this all the time, though not nearly to such an extreme extent. I'll just get confused about little things, like thinking that my mom bought groceries and got granola bars, when in reality it was never so (and in turn I ask where they are, and shes like wtf??). I think the original scenario is a little too extreme to be possible anyhow; I can see the music part being true, but college courses? Your dreams can only take after what you know and have experienced; how could you just take a college course if it can't teach you anything? Your mind can't teach you what it doesn't know.