Lucid Dreams as Therapy

[Taosaur]

Preparing for a LD lecture in Second Life, I was considering uses for LDs and it occured to me that LDs have been a kind of therapy for me, giving me a heads up to things that might be wrong in my life and requiring me to relax if I want to seek pleasure in the form of greater dream control. it reminds me of dearmoring, a therapy I've encountered in relation to biofeedback devices, in which you must relax stored tensions in order to pursue a pleasurable experience, for instance music attuned to your bio-electric output. Does anyone know of psychologists pursuing LDs, perhaps guided LDs with assigned tasks, as a therapeutic tool? What do you think of this application?

[AirRick101]

I remembering reading in "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" of using dreaming as sort of a therapeutic tool, some of its testimonies being somewhat indirect. Like, when you rehearse for something in a dream, that's therapeutic. I believe most dreams can be therapeutic. Or maybe all dreams are potentially therapeutic. It's the closest thing to another reality we can get to, so every experience in the dreams are so convincing to our physiological and nervous systems. Need I say more?...