Can Lucid Dreaming become dangerous?

not me because i always know where my real body is in a lucid dream as
apposed to my dream body. I completely understand the whole time what
im doing and what is going on. There is simply no confusing a LD state
with being awake for me. Im conscious of being awake and im conscious
of being in a LD. I can say to myself in a LD, "oh ya i read in the
DVs forum today that i can breath under water so im going to try that
right now." I can think..."oh no the dream is starting to slip away and
im going to wake up." When youre awake youre awake, theres no mistaking
it. Even in a false awakening you wouldnt do something dangerous, unless
you were actually sleep walking right off your balcony thinking youre going
into the bathroom. But sleep walking is a whole separate matter.

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Originally Posted by redrabbit

You really have to consider how dangerous life already is; I mean, I have nearly fallen to my death wide awake, let alone in a dream-state.

Not to get too far off topic, but, are we all of the opinion that if you die dreaming then the dream ends?

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I have never ever ever died in a dream, LD or NL....ever! I always wake up
before death so ya then it ends, or i escape or change it. Nothing tries to
harm me in LDs also and if i cant fly for whatever reason (which is practically
never) then i just kind of land nice and softly, i never fall and i never get hurt.

BTW after reading everyones posts i feel that you are all so much better
at explaining stuff then i can! :lol:

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i'm sorry. wow. cognitive dissonance.

this kind of thing only ever happened to me once. I was walking around naked
in our yard because i had had a very lucid recurring dream that i had woken up-
over and over and over. It tricked me well enough for me to walk out into the yard naked.

That was when i was 13.

For the most part lucidity period is a sort of cumulative psi energy. If you get more lucid while dreaming you should get more lucid while waking, and vice versa.

I think the argument should be made that part of what was going on was i just wanted, subliminally, to walk around naked in the yard. I fooled myself because i wanted to be fooled, and because i was particularly groggy.

Later on in life my state lucidity has grown, i think the reason why i missed the point is that i just can't really imagine it any more.

For the most part, as you get more lucid, you become harder and harder to fool- even if its fooling yourself. I don't do any of these reality checks, for instance, any more. I just know that i'm dreaming and act appropriately.

:)