Quote Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue View Post
I agree, not many people pay attention to or care about dreams and their potential. Or just naturally have horrible recall. My stepdad is a psychiatrist, and he helped some of his war veteran patients wake up from nightmares by practicing becoming aware in the nightmare, or changing some aspect of the dream. But even he didn't know it was something you could practice, and induce intentionally, and control beyond just ending a nightmare. He didn't even know it was called lucid dreaming until I told him about it. He's never had one himself either.

I talk to people at work about it alot, and discover that many people lucid dream, or they came upon it accidentally as a child but then stopped. Most of the time the ones that can do it, just don't talk about it unless someone like me starts yammering on about my dreams lol. It's like, maybe they're embarrassed or think people won't believe them. I've had that happen before as well, where a friend was like "That's impossible!" And sometimes it goes against some religious beliefs. The subject of lucid dreaming has had a hard road to the light of knowledge, and that's why we're here


Lol. Yes, he does.
could it be we were born with the capacity to live side by side with the conscious and subconscious mind, I mean why does a baby suckle? that is a subconscious thing at that age but you grow out of it later. the more environmental stimuli we experience surely clouds the subconscious into a state of not being needed. Unless of course its basic instinct, fight or flight reactions etc.

but from birth we have the capacity to survive essentially. Perhaps the external influences we experience every day overwrite the standard subconscious.

I myself am still lucid dreaming solely to better myself and understand and feel comfortable with my beliefs. I honestly think it takes a focused and interested mind to recognize the subconscious mind from a conscious point of view and change it.