Thread: Do Dreams really improve your Quality of Life

Do dreams really have a net gain on your Quality of Life? I'm sure many of you have felt than bad feeling in the morning after some great dreams which is a kind of a downer, but the main thing is long term effect. If your dreams are consistantly better than your real life then surely you will start to get used to it and your waking life will seem bad even if it is ok, because great dreams have become the standard.

If I have a good dream, I tend to feel better when I wake up.

yeah i know what you mean as i often do, but if the dream was especially good and the next day is going to be a bad one for whatever reason. the main point i was making was about the long term of dreams making your real lfie seem worse in relation to good dreams

If anything I feel like my quality of life is somewhat lesser than what it was before joining the site.

Most likely, but a better Quality of Life is more influenced by what we do in the Waking World rather than in the Dream World. Though if having good dreams means sleeping better then yes, Quality of Life increases.

Originally Posted by ZmillA

If anything I feel like my quality of life is somewhat lesser than what it was before joining the site.

Must have been a tough 5 days.

I suppose it may depend on if you view lucid dreaming as an asset of your waking life or an escape from it.

Originally Posted by i make it rain

Must have been a tough 5 days.

Now I shouldn't be laughing... yet I am

Originally Posted by i make it rain

Must have been a tough 5 days.

Indeed. It really all comes down to if Im as happy as I was before. If the answer is no than to me, technically the "quality of life" is worse.

Originally Posted by i make it rain

Must have been a tough 5 days.

Im 100% positive you and I dont have the same definition of quality life. I and was probrably feeling down when I made that post anyways.

Originally Posted by Super FZL

If I have a good dream, I tend to feel better when I wake up.

I\'m the same way - but for me it\'s any kind of vivid dream that helps me start the day well, not just good ones.

In this book I read (probably Laberge's), a tibetan monk explains what happens if you really master the art of lucid dreaming. The difference between waking life and dreamlife will fade away (not in a bad way) and as you are constantly aware of being in a dream while lucid, you will have increased awareness in waking life.

Tibetan dream yoga isn't about the content of our dreams. In fact, dream yoga is really about our waking life. - Lama Tsering Everest

This is what has currently happened to me. So many impressive things has happened in both dreams and astral projection...

...It had got to the point where I felt so fufilled in this life that I need nothing and even willing to die now...

...I only live now to experiene life, as if this was a dream, I have no fear of death and actual wait for it...so now I just enjoy life...

Something I notice now though is if bored I will slip into trance and start flicking in and out of dreams every 5secs and the eeling is so good almost feels like a drug...I honestly can't do a thing in that stae of mind...

But all these experiences have caused the physical world to feel dull and I'm now seeing if I can feel the intense feelings in this world like in dream or astral world.

Originally Posted by Thatperson

Do dreams really have a net gain on your Quality of Life? I'm sure many of you have felt than bad feeling in the morning after some great dreams which is a kind of a downer, but the main thing is long term effect. If your dreams are consistantly better than your real life then surely you will start to get used to it and your waking life will seem bad even if it is ok, because great dreams have become the standard.

I suppose, but they can also distract you from reality.

After having a bad dream I appreciate the way I live in reality.

Everyone dreams, always, it's only a matter wether you remember them or not. So if you get into lucid dreaming you will remember them, therefore, your life will have more value anyway. If you don't remember your dreams, you have one life. If you do remember them, you have two lives. That's how I see it. Not remembering your dreams is like forgetting half your life Good point tho, that if your dreams are so great, that your life might suck in comparison.. but it's like saying if videogames are so great, real life will suck in comparison.. thats not the case for me. My dreams are like real life anyway, but a lil more exagerated. Besides, you will dream always! The only way to escape dreams is forgetting them.

I worry about this a lot because I tend to be pretty depressed and my life really isn't that exciting. I was always the kid who was buried in fantasy novels and in love with video games, superheros, and flying.
I'm not a natural. I only got my first LD 5 years ago, and it has only been in the past two months that I've really gotten the hang of LDing (by my standards, anyways).
So I don't think of LDing as something miraculously better than waking life that dulls it, although it sometimes does feel that way when I am down. Instead, I feel like I've been given a gift. I have the ability to do this amazing thing when I go to sleep! I can be in a world of my own creation. If I feel bad about my real life because it's not as exciting as LDing, I make myself stop and recall the times when this whole experience was not available to me because I had no idea it existed, and realize how incredibly lucky I am (that we all are, that humans are able to do this).

So the only way LDing has reduced the quality of my life is when I waste an entire day sleeping in attempts to have an LD, but don't, and wake up hours later with a day lost.
But on the other hand, I have a new hobby that I am seriously interested in, and now spend a large majority of my waking hours thinking about LDing, observing reality, questioning reality, speaking about dreaming and LDing to some close family/friends, etc. When I am bored, I think about lucid dreaming. It's increased the quality of my life in more than just quality/amount of sleep

Originally Posted by Exhalent

After having a bad dream I appreciate the way I live in reality.

And then there's that.

In terms of just comparing waking life and dreaming it should actually help. I heard from this guy that studied dreams that actually the majority of dreams are negative in nature. Either you are trying to do something and it won't work or you are being chased or something. These are more common than those awesome happy dreams. Of course LDing can throw that all off. But I don't believe in the comparison of dreaming and waking life. After a really good LD, I feel like I accomplished something that was amazing and fun.