Thread: Is it possible to stay conscious forever?

Iv been thinking about it since long time, I believe that it is possible. But you do not know the consensuses, maybe you will start loosing memories from you waking life. I guess we did not test our brain capabilities in such conditions yet.

Interesting point to think about here. When we are young, like 1-3 years old, we do not differentiate dream from awake life. Step by step our parents explain us that nightmares that we saw at night are just dreams. We all evolved and got used that dreams are are not the real part of our life. It took us around 3 to 4 years to completely change our perception of dreams. The question is, if it is possible to change back to the same state where dreams would be as real as our waking life? And how long would it take?


Maybe we are not really far from it, for example I am lucid dreaming every night and I love it so much. I already experienced many benefits of lucid dreaming and I am planning to evolve my self to reach new targets.
Usually I am having more then 2-3 LD's, few OBE's and FA's per night. The main question for me was - are the are downsides?
We all know that almost always a lot of something is harmful, the best way to go is to stay in the golden middle. I asked my self if the same rule applies to dreaming and to the OP question.

My observations and conclusions. I would lie my self If I would say that Lucid Dreaming did not affect my waking memory. I noticed that I tend to forget very fast things that do not matter to me. But that's not all, at the same time I noticed that I tend to remember very well things that are important to me. So from here I make a conclusion that I did not have any negative effects on my memory from Lucid Dreaming. Also I made a conclusion that our brain has some limits, and we have to pick those memories that are important to us, it is not possible to remember all details of waking life if you are remembering all details of dreams.
From here another question - is it possible to choose which memories from dreams to keep and which to forget? the answer is definitely Yes. I made a lot of testing with this, when you wake up you can choose which dreams to keep and which ones to forget. It is pretty easy, when you wake up just focus on dreams that you liked and do not pay any attention to dreams that you did not like. After 10-15 minutes you will not be able to remember any fragments from dreams that you did not want to remember. I said it already but I will say again, our dream memories are like a ball of threads, if you just grab one thread from it - you will be able to pull the rest. It is better to decided which one to keep while you are still dreaming.
Recently I read an article about how our memory is cleaned up during sleep. Maybe it is harder for our brain to overwrite new memories over old memories and easier to write new memories on empty slots. Maybe this is the only limit.


To answer the OP. Depends on your way of life, if you have a regular life with family, business and responsibilities then it is better to stick to normal lucid dreaming and pick only dreams that you like. Because you will not be able to remember both, all events from your waking life and all events from your dreaming life.
If you are really dedicated to something, for example if you are a scientist, engineer, musician then you could definitely benefit from staying conscious for ever, you would have a lot of time to find those answers and inspiration that you were looking for.

Of course I can be wrong, this is only my opinion, based on my observations and conclusions.