Thread: What good are lucid dreams?

Gives you something to do while you're sleeping?

OK, how about the opposite...why not lucid dream? It seems as tho you may have reasons against it.

(Arne, what do you think of how people have completed the lucid task this month that you suggested? Do you have any new opinions? Just wondering.)

I have only one reason for lucid dreaming. I'm a writer and a filmmaker, and many of my ideas have come to me through non-lucid dreams. When I dream, my mind is not distracted by worldly concerns and devotes itself as near 100% to creativity as I will ever achieve. By harnessing the power of dreams, I can wield this creativity as a tool to create things I never could have even imagined in a conscious state of mind. To me, every other benefit of lucid dreams (the fun, the entertainment, the beauty) are just subsidiary perks, though even they alone would make it worth the effort.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Gives you something to do while you're sleeping? .

(Arne, what do you think of how people have completed the lucid task this month that you suggested? Do you have any new opinions? Just wondering.)

I didn't suggest any task here, and I haven't kept up with any task that might have been presented here as if I suggested it. However, I do know that at least one person who posts here did something he should NOT have done in a lucid dream -- the one thing that I specifically stated here that nobody should ever do in an LD. But he and I have discussed that privately.

My Yahoo Group has almost 70 members now, and I know what everyone there is doing.

Facing nightmare's in lucid dream's is also a lot fun!
at least I think so. It's alway's been one of my favorite
kind of Lucid adventure's. Maybe it's just an ego thing.
But I love the feeling I get, knowing there is nothing in
my dream world that has any power over me.

There are thing's I would not do in a Lucid Dream.
Like killing somebody, There is no reason for it.
I would rather let someone try and kill me. And laugh
at there surprised expression when they find out they
can not.

But I don't think anybody has the right, to tell anybody
what they can, or can't do in there own dream's.
just my opinion.

It's a great way for discovering things about yourself...
It's a great way to get inspiration for many arts...
You can project stuff for your life or your future in a lucid dream (you can go over many options of your life to help you choose, you can project your dream place and live in it, etc).

Most other stuff that was already mentioned.

Originally Posted by arne saknussemm

I didn't suggest any task here, and I haven't kept up with any task that might have been presented here as if I suggested it. However, I do know that at least one person who posts here did something he should NOT have done in a lucid dream -- the one thing that I specifically stated here that nobody should ever do in an LD. But he and I have discussed that privately.

Originally Posted by arne saknussemm

All right, people dreamed about trees and then they tried to physically merge with a tree.

How is that "controlling the dream?"

See if you can will the tree to pull itself up by the roots and start walking around, the way you can in a waking fantasy. If you can do that, then you'll be "controlling the dream."

But just as important, this was a completely daft thing to have people do in a lucid dream. Where did anyone get the notion that it was a good thing to do?

Of all things, people should stay away from trees in lucid dreaming. Don't touch them. Don't have anything to do with them.

That task.

Why are you afraid of tree's?

Originally Posted by Caradon

Why are you afraid of tree's?

Nitpick: You don't use an apostrophe there.

My running theory is that he was attacked by a tree in a dream.

I don't know where that quote of arnesaknussemm came from but, since it's here now:

How is that NOT controlling a dream. When you purposely carry plans over from waking life then execute them in a dream then you've controlled the dream.

How is merging with a tree - or touching them or "having anything to do with them" - a "bad thing to do"?

We obviously have wildly different ideas of what lucid dreaming is all about.

A man can have sex with Marilyn Monroe anything me wants to when he's awake. That's called a daydream. Dreams when you're asleep are an entirely different matter.

Why does that need to be said? It's a no-brainer.

And no, "he" wasn't attacked by a tree in a dream.

If you insist on touching a tree or talking to one in a lucid dream after I've told you not to, then go right ahead.

And if you're wondering whether the experiences of the 68 people who are carrying out tasks in my lucid dreaming group have altered my thinking in any way whatsoever as to what dreaming and lucid dreaming are about, the answer is emphatically no.