Fear of rejection - can lucid dreaming help?

[russx]

I had a lucid dream last night which basically brought me to the internet to find out more info. Normally I lucid dream quite a lot, sometimes I can control them, mostly not or only little control but never thought of applying it to my real life issue of fear of rejection from women. I know alot of guys have this problem but I have trouble approaching a women in a social situation even when it's obvious she wants me to approach her. So the dream I had last night was..... I new I was dreaming and I had groups of women around me. I was in the dream thinking I know this isn't real so I could practise approaching these groups of women to see if it helps me in real life (sounds bizzare that you can think like that while dreaming!) Strange thing is I still felt the anxiety in the dream even though I new it was only a dream. I understand that the brain can't tell the difference from images from real life and imagination so I wonder if this can work? I plan to try and experiment with this to see if it can help me but wondered if anyone has more experience with helping real life with lucid dreaming.

[Rubens]

I think it's very possible to this kind of thing help in real life Here in Brazil, a group of researchers from one of our best universities were making tests about the benefits of lucid dreaming in our life. They made such a simple experiment. They choosed some lucid dreamers to this experiment and divided them in 2 groups (A and B) and gave them a simple task. Throw some coins into a cup from a certain distance (the same distance to everyone). It wasn't a great diferencer between the results of everyone in the first time. They said only to group A to pratice throwing coins in cups during their lucid dreams for a couple days. The next time they met, the group A had a much better score than group B. They deduced that praticing things in LDs can really improve our ability in doing that things when awake.

[roman67]

Hey Rubens, thanks for sharing this experiment with us. Now this gives us a confidence to try everything in life without thinking about the fear of rejection.

[Rubens]

Yep, learning about Lucid Dreaming can be very helpful in our "real life" too. I have the plan of praticing music and composing during my LDs when I get better in this I've read that our criativity is completely activated when dreaming, we know that just by looking at how crazy or creative our dreams can be xD