Thread: How Has Lucid Dreaming Changed You As A Person

Great thread. I've loved reading everyone's replies.

I can only reiterate what others have said, and I don't think i'll be able to do it in quite such a sophisticated manner either, but i'll give it a go. For me, it's learning more about who I really am, and how my subconcious, and things I thought i'd forgotten about might actually be affecting the person I am now, and the decisions I make. And searching for ways to right wrongs in my life.

I know a lot of ways in which lucid dreaming COULD change my life for the better, I just need to get better at it, and then set up some experiments to improve confidence etc.

Originally Posted by aoneironaut

Hi guys,

I am very curious to know if lucid dreaming has helped you view the world better, become more comapsionate, or are you still the same grumpy bastard you always were? I have been always interested in the meeting point between what I like to call the T&S-less and the T&S-full.

Meaning: If the spirit or soul ( I personally have a conviction that we all have a soul) that has no constraints of Time and Space (T&S-less) and the human body that is 100% physical and made up of matter, constrained by Time and Space (T&S-full), cross at one point. They meet and coexist. So there must be a meeting point somewhere...the last 10 years of my life has been dedicated to this and I have found my own personal answer.

Lucid Dreaming I find is similar in where something so loose meets something so ridgid. I would love to hear how the loosness has loosened the rigidity with you guys or vice versa.
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Bonjour, mon ami. I see you're from Montreal. Every time I visit Montreal, the natives take great pleasure in critiquing my French, so I'd like to do the same by pointing out the grammatical fault in your screen name. Sorry, I couldn't help it. I wouldn't have been that picky if I hadn't seen your screenname and allowed the bitterness to overtake me.

In relation to your question, I've found an eerie connection between the quality of my lucid dreaming and the quality of my life. It may be simply a clouding (or clearing) of subjecting perception, but I am more confident and easygoing when I am consistantly lucid dreaming, or at the least, remembering 2-3 dreams a night.

I think this has more to do with the selfish nature of dreams. In dreams we turn away from the world and enter our own. The more we enjoy our own little world the less we rely on the real world for enjoyment, and thus we are more accepting towards what happens in consensus reality.

Originally Posted by aoneironaut

Ahh see what you are talking about is th unconscious mind. That is what controls breathing and blinking. Which is very different form the theory of the subconscious mind.
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I have a bachelor's in psychology, which means I'm even more confused by psychology than the layperson. One of the things a professor taught us about the subconscious is this:

"Do not confuse automatic processes as a function of the subconscious. They are a physiological function and thus part of the autonomic nervous system which is totally unrelated to conscious processing." Or something like that.

But, he also said:

"If we are to distinguish between the unconscious and the conscious mind, we are drawing a line that has been consistantly moving over the last century, and it won't be long before it vanishes altogether. The only proof of the conscious mind we have are circumstances of metacognition, which we have no scientific method of varifying as of yet."

I don't know if I agree or not, but I just thought I'd let you know what academia is teaching us.

Originally Posted by loose

Every time I visit Montreal, the natives take great pleasure in critiquing my French, so I'd like to do the same by pointing out the grammatical fault in your screen name.

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Hey there. Don't see it as critiquing, you should view it as EFFECTIVE criticism...I wouldnt think that people are trying to belittle you...maybe helping you out. Montrealers are very sweet.

As for my screen name, its -a oneironaut- as in 1 oneironaut out of many oneironauts.

Dont let bitterness overcome you cause I personaly do not think that anyone could detail themselves as a "bitter person". I really don't know of anyone that has tried human meat to call it bitter, salty, or whatever.

It hasn't.

Originally Posted by aoneironaut

As for my screen name, its -a oneironaut- as in 1 oneironaut out of many oneironauts.
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Off-topic, but shouldn't it be "an" since there is a vowel?

Anyways, Lucid dreaming has also made me more aware of my surroundings.

It let me know that I have more control in dreams.

For me, lucid dreaming became another crack in the eggshell of reality or the everyday conscious experience. It made me question what is real, what does it mean to be conscious, what does it mean to experience reality.