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    1. 07-09-2004 01:49 AM #1
      Ryden
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      Hey All,
      I have the condition Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Most of you will already be farmiliar with it from such movies as "As good as it gets" and "Matchstick Men". Anyway, the way mine manifests itself is that during the night beyond my controll, I see things that I do not want to. For example I would want to think about something good that happened that day, but it would be unwillingly replaced with something disturbing or what have you. I want to get into LDing, but I am worried. If it is bad when I am conscious, I can't imagine what it would be like in a dream. I imagine it would quickly change from the most enjoyable to the most frightening experience of my life.
      Anyone have the same problem? Advice?
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    2. 07-09-2004 02:19 AM #2
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      i totally understand...
      if your lucid though, and it turns bad, you can wake yourself up.
      a child's rhyme stuck in my head
      it said life is but a dream
      i spent so many years in question
      to find i known this all along..

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    3. 07-09-2004 02:29 AM #3
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      Hello Ryden!!!!!
      Are you aware of what sets this OCD into action when you go to sleep? Sorry if it sound like a stupid question. But somtimes finding the underlining reason for the compulsivness to be triggered is one step closer to controlling it. It is a complicated disorder and I am sure that it is difficult to deal with.
      As far as Lucid dreaming???? I can't honestly say myself how it would inneract to that specific problem. I myself, Although I do not have OCD, have only had two nightmares in one and a half years since I have learned to LD. And I was prone to have at least two nightmares a week.
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    4. 07-09-2004 03:17 PM #4
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      What sets it into motion is an imbalance in my seretonin levels. This somehow reduces the activity or effectiveness of the part of my brain that identifies reasonable and ureasonable. Anyway thanks for the help, I still have a long way to go anyway.
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      Well unreasonable and reasonable don't really exist in the dream world, it's an escape from reality and it's your own little world.
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    6. 07-10-2004 01:17 AM #6
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      Originally posted by Ryden
      What sets it into motion is an imbalance in my seretonin levels. This somehow reduces the activity or effectiveness of the part of my brain that identifies reasonable and ureasonable. Anyway thanks for the help, I still have a long way to go anyway.
      Do doctors have medicines to counter act that imbalance?
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