Negative side effect of LD?

[Funnel]

I was reading Discover magazine at the otpometrist and I found an article about unsolved mysteries about the brain. There was a section on dreaming that said the most agreed upon answer for the purpose of sleep is that "sleep plays a critical role in learning and consolidating memories and in forgetting inconsequential details. In other words, sleep allows the brain to store away the important stuff and take out the neural trash." I've heard people say that LD takes the teacher out of the dreams and I thought that was rubbish, but then I saw this. Would a LD stop your brain from creating permanent memories? Would a LD make you stupider? I pose this question not as an attack but as a debate. What do you think about this? I personally have not made up my mind yet. You can read the article here http://discovermagazine.com/2007/aug...tart:int=2&-C=

[philquiet]

I do not think so, since we can't really be lucid on every single dream that you have, and since we also dream on some NREM periods. My belief is that the brain is clever enough to balance all that stuff and do all the learning that he want.

[Adam]

Nail on head about, we dream so much, and sleep so much throughout the night that having one or 2 lucid dreams for 15 minutes a night is not going to impact on any of this really..

[Citizen]

I'm not attacking either, just playing devil's advocate... What about when people do drugs that destroy brain cells and say "well, I only did it once...". Everyone gives them the same look The parallel for our argument so far is that for every time someone does one of these drugs, they are obviously awake and NOT destroying cells for much much longer... So I am totally for lucid dreaming and don't think it's bad at all, I just think that so far, as a group, we are developing a bad argument lol but then again I didn't read the article and I'm not sure if it talked about actually destroying brain cells... just a thought.

[Funnel]

No, it didn't mention destroying braincells or LD at all really, I just used the information to come up with the idea. I think what I will take from this article is that I shouldn't try LD right after I study for a hard test the next day, and that staying up all night studying probably doesn't work so well.

[Bonsay]

We could make a test. Take some natural LDers, some of those in training and normal dreamers. Make them learn something, test them and hope they don't have some learning problem or attention disorder. Whenever people ask about danger of LDs, I always bring up the naturals. So what about them? Or what about those Tibetan monks? I also heard that a lot of meditation can cause spontaneous LDs, etc. We could test everything and look at the results, but wouldn't we already know how stupid LDers get after thousands of years of it being practiced all around the world?

[Jeff777]

BOLLOCKS!!!!!!

[polmc]

Off curse lucid dreems dont make stupid you