Thread: Manipulating your personality

Is it possible to suppress memories or aspects of your personality through lucid dreaming? Could you like, get on a computer with files of all of your memories and such and just start deleting stuff? Or could you add something, or possibly change some stuff to make dreaming lucidly easier?

I don't think so, lucid dreaming doesn't really give you full access to your brains hard drive.

Interesting idea, though.

But I think it works much like in the real world, in the Dream. You can change yourself, but not in a quick way like that...

But I can't say for sure :0 I shall check back for interesting replies!

While there is evidence that we catalogue and store our memories in various parts of our brains, there is no "central database" that we can access in order to cherrypick our memories. False memories can be implanted in a person, but that is largely a matter of suggestibility and either a conscious or unconscious desire to remember a particular event in a particular way. As far as personality is concerned, that is hard wired into each of us by the time we reach the age of 5 or so. One's personality never changes, only ones way of reacting to stimuli based on those hard wired personality traits change.

In a way, it could be possible, BUT it wouldn't be any different than changing your personality while awake. Adopting a new personality, changing who you are is possible if you choose to do so. One only has to think about the thought process a teenager goes through which sometime leads to a complete reversal of personality.

In anyways, I believe its the conscious decision to do so, and never the dream which will change who you are. The scenario you propose seems surreal : p

Well I just wanted to mention that I found some things very difficult to do sometimes while in the lucid dream state -can't recall my address, or telephone #, can't do basic math skills. I generally find mental faculties are restircted in some ways, and enhanced in others.