Originally Posted by
rmwebberuark
Please clarify your personal opinion because I gathered that you meant people with mental disorders cannot lucid dream. In my opinion, I think it is a lot easier to lucid dream with certain mental disorders (like ones that my psychologists are medicating me for: C-PTSD, anxiety, depression, and OCD). I feel that with anxiety, I am more aware of slight oddities. And I can say, with much personal certainty, that too much lucid dreaming can be a bad thing. I started at the age of 5-6ish because of an obsessively-controlling, abusive, and militaristic-like father. I can relate with exhaustion (each time I have an LD now, I wake up with a racy heart and have to take a Beta Blocker), alienation, inability to stop for many years, false awakenings and sleep paralysis, and most importantly dissociation. It's really f***ed up when I can remember the order and vividness of my dreams from my childhood but not many waking experiences. I feel that psychologists that haven't had several, if not hundreds, of lucid dreams just won't be able to fully understand the mystery. It really is the most addicting drug ever created.