Thread: Can Lucid dreaming really change your personality?

Originally Posted by dreamviewer2006

yea but im saying what if it could make you go crazy for instance, you can not tell the difference from reality and a dream?

thats what LDing is! the ability to distinguish reality from dreaming.

Originally Posted by megg322

thats what LDing is! the ability to distinguish reality from dreaming.

Honestly that comment just enlightened me... I've never thought of it that way and wow... it just clicked. Nice one megg.
sorry for double post, but i couldn't pass up commenting on what Megg said...

-Justin

Well, you have the same personality in an LD as you do in waking life. Lucid dreaming doesn't change you at all. thats rubbish.
Some people have them naturaly. your mind wouldnt naturaly do something that hurts you, unless its not working right. and all you have to do is talk to a lucid dreamer to know they arent brain damaged.

also, you'll be able to tell the difference between the dream world, and waking life. trust me. i KNOW when im awake, with no question. I just don't always know im asleep.
you'll read a lot of lucid dreams, where people talk about how "incredibly life like and real it felt". and that's true, it can be very life like and real. but it always has a "dreamy" feeling to it. its not exactly the same.

and dude, getting in touch with your subcounscious, can't be a bad thing. your subcounscious plays a huge role in your daily waking life. people pay thousands of dollars to therapists, in hopes they can tell them what the hell is happening in their subcouncious. save the dough and lucid dream.

easy...

I don't think that lucid dreaming can change your personality any more than normal, waking experiences can. The things we see and experience on a daily basis usually change us over time, be it while awake or asleep.

If anything, because you can consciously face fears and new experiences in dreams it is likely to make positive rather than negative changes. It all depends on your temperament and the choices you consistently make while lucid.

Yeah Sleepalot said it. When dreaming, we deal with a lot of subconscious thoughts, beliefs and things we didn't even remember existed. I think that is great for solving things from the past, facing fears etc. So, if it does change you at all, it is clearly in a positive way.

If you want to be completely reassured from a scientific viewpoint, since you keep mentioning brain chemicals and such, get Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge.
Not only is it a step-by-step guide and the source for all the basic (and not so basic) techniques for inducing lucid dreams but he's the renowned authority on lucid dreaming research, scientifically.