Most people lucid dream within the first month so I wouldn't consider it that hard. |
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Lucid dreaming is unparalleled. Being as it is an amazing experience it makes me wonder why it is so hard to do it. Why something so simple and great is nearly impossible for most people to achieve. The conclusion I am constantly drawn back to is that because the brain needs dreaming for vital survival and emotional stability, the five minutes to half an hour spent flying over the ocean, fighting in zeroG, or having adult time with the new secretary is impeding on time the brain desperately needs organize the mind. |
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Most people lucid dream within the first month so I wouldn't consider it that hard. |
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Spoiler for Secret to LDing:
I have heard many people on this forum say that being lucid during a dream has no impact on the quality of sleep. I have a hard time believing that being unconscious during a dream means the mind is organizing itself. |
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I think its hard for people for many different reasons. One of them is that they consider dreaming to be a waste of time to pay attention to and therefore don't even consider lucid dreaming as a possibility. Another is that it takes a certain amount of concentration to be able to recognize you are dreaming and then go 'have adult time with your secretary'. For different people that amount of concentration varies making it hard for some and easy for others, like the process of learning. Also, the lack of dreaming at all... some people don't remember their dreams, some aren't very creative about when they do, some people are plagued by nightmares, and so on. Lucid dreaming and learning it is a personal process for every individual. |
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Lucid dreaming is only extremely difficult if you are stressed or have a busy lifestyle and it has no effect on the way your mind organizes your thoughts prior to awakening. It's not like every single dream you have is a lucid dream with no goal but to follow emotion, ego, desires, or primitive instinct. And if you somehow have had constant lucid dreams in which the case is that your subconscious mind does not have free control over what you perceive in the dream, you probably would have learned by now to cognitively assess and stabilize your emotional well-being using your own conscious alongside with your active subconscious in the dream, or it may not even matter if you do what I just stated anyway since dreams may just be a neural phenomena or vestigial part of the brain's function, so it likely has no effect on our vitality. |
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I did not mean that lucid dreaming was detrimental nor that it was an impossible feat, I simply meant that the reason lucid dreaming is a rarity rather than a normality could be that the brain categorizes it as an interference with normal functions. Just as a side note, the unconscious state of dreaming is the brain separating necessary information and rapidly repeating the neuron chain that makes up the memory, fortifying it and filing it as as long term memory. Lucid dreaming diverts the normal function and fortifies other, possibly non-essential, information. |
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Last edited by transient; 04-16-2012 at 05:15 AM.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
-Edgar Allan Poe
I see where you're getting at, although I didn't interpret your post as stating that lucid dreaming is impossible, but you did state it was somewhat of a challenge, which I don't entirely disagree with. |
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Last edited by mikeac; 04-16-2012 at 05:34 AM.
"...categorizes it as interference with normal functions..." |
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