Thread: Is Lucid Dreaming the most Vainest Obsession

I sometimes get that, wondering if LD'ing is a waste of time because it's not real. I believe it's very much spiritually related, and LD'ing can't help but be a skill that enhances personal growth. The question is, what do YOU wanna do?

I am just like anyone else............searching for answers.

“Dreams are real while they last, can we say more of life?”
-Havelock Ellis

But Life is a Bloody Dream !!!. But with "Interest" thrown in.

Dreams are great arenas for solving personal issues in the privacy of your own mind. That alone makes this a worthwhile practice for me.

But anyway, what else are you gonna do while you're sleeping? It's not like if you didn't lucid dream you would be out curing world hunger. You gotta shut your eyes sometime, might as well make the most of it.

Dear dreamboat,

To determine whether your dream interactions with Dream Characters has been futile or not, simply regard the content small dramas that occurred. If you behaved appropriately to the situation, and the dream content and action seemed to affirm and reward your actions, then I would have to conclude that the Dream Situations were useful tests, which you were able to pass.

When I was growing up their was a ludicrous expression that was often repeated in the lockerrooms and other crude places, that 'one could not get laid in a dream'. But we need to consider that there ARE indeed people who could not get laid in a dream, or if they did, but behaved shockingly inappropriate to the situation, that the dream would toss up difficulties and embarrassing conjunctures, or whatever. Anyway, my point is, that anytime a dream goes well, it indicates that one has passes a kind of 'test'.

So, you can regard your dreams, in which you conduct yourself through various social interactions, as sessions of social practice in a sort of Dream Finishing School. Your Higher Mind must be in favor of your dream activities, or it would simply cut them off. For all the propaganda about 'dream control' enough of us know that the Higher Mind does indeed have the last word, that is the Subconscious Mind reserves the right and power to veto or suspend our dream activities at any time and at its own choosing. We dream at the will and pleasure of our Higher Dream Mind. So if we consciousnly can begin to doubt the importance of the dreams we are having, we can bolster our own confidence by reminding ourselves that the Higher Mind must think that these dreams have some kind of value, or they would not be presented.

Besides, if anybody should value our own subjective reality, it should be ourselves.

Also, on a personal level, I can remind you that there is a difference between separation anxiety and remorse. After having had a very delightful conversation with a dream character, of course one wakes up with some degree of separation anxiety. One misses one's dream friend. But this should in no way lead us to believe that our lives would have been better if we never met our delightful dream friend. We must remember that it is 'better to love and lose then to have not loved at all'. Rather than encouraging ourselves in our separation anxiety, we should simply hold onto the happy feeling that we had in the dream, and realize that there will be other dreams that will bring further happy interludes.