Quote Originally Posted by heebiejeebies View Post
From the Lucidity Institute’s website:

“The experience of being in a lucid dream clearly demonstrates the astonishing fact that the world we see is a construct of our minds. This concept, so elusive when sought in waking life, is the cornerstone of spiritual teachings. It forces us to look beyond everyday experience and ask, "If this is not real, what is?" Lucid dreaming, by so baldly baring a truth that many spend lives seeking, often triggers spiritual questioning in people who try it for far more mundane purposes. Not only does lucid dreaming lead to questioning the nature of reality, but for many it also has been a source of transcendent experience. Exalted and ecstatic states are common in lucid dreams. EWLD presents several cases of individuals achieving states of union with the Highest, great peace and a new sense of their roles in life.”

This freaks me out and is one of the reasons I have been scared of trying LDing for a while. The absolute last thing I want is to be questioning everything – being wide awake, wondering if everything that’s happening to me is real, or if it’s just a hallucination - or to have my perspective on life, death and the universe significantly altered. At the moment, I believe waking life is real, and LDs are entirely created by our own minds. What do others feel? Has having LDs made you question the nature of reality, and whether waking life is real? In what ways has it changed your perspective on things ?

Thanks
-heebs
From my not so pleasant experience of thinking like this. It's better/safer to accept reality as reality. By questioning reality if it's real or not, it actually weakens the border between dreaming and waking. It creates two realities..this one and the dream reality and I find the mind gets confused because it's only familiar with one reality, this one. So nope...there is only one reality and it's real as I have known it. I think it would be safer to know that as a fact and treat the reality checks for lucid dreaming as training...not dreaming.

IMJ