DG and Self Help

[Metallicuh]

in a lucid dream, after you have found your Dream Guide, can you ask it to change the way you think? Like, could you ask it to help you focus less on negative thoughts? and it carries over into real life?

[mrdeano]

in a lucid dream, after you have found your Dream Guide, can you ask it to change the way you think? Like, could you ask it to help you focus less on negative thoughts? and it carries over into real life? I am a little bit skeptical about this kind of thing. I think a lot of it has to do with the placebo effect. The dreamer thinks he/she is talking to his subconscious so he/she ironically subconsciously changes the way he/she thinks. If that even makes sense xD

[justme]

It might. It all kind of a placebo effect. It may not even have to be a dream guide. Find a magic lamp and ask the genie 3 wishes or something. If you wish for money or something that obviously wouldn't work but anything like I wish I would be more positive might help. Of course knowing that the whole effect might be a placebo effect might not make this effect work... I would probably try to find ways to think more positively while awake instead of resorting to dream therapy.

[Evolventity]

I think optimism and pessimism are based on belief. Belief has an evidently powerful effect on behavior. If in such a dream you tell your subconscious to change your way of thinking and actually believe your subconscious will change, then it will. Self-hypnosis (when relaxed and awake) is another technique to change your thinking patterns but if you feel doing it though an LD is more effective then go for it! I'm certainly going to try it out.