Hello everyone, i'm new to posting on these forums but have been viewing them from time to time for the past few years (and a lot moreso recently). I would like to open up a discussion on how, if at all, LDing has affected your waking lives.

I know how the preoccupation with thinking about LDing and ensuring one completes regular reality checks can and do slightly alter the day-to-day escapades of a LDer, but has it gone much further with anyone?

for example, has it dramatically changed your perspectives or even perceptions of life and reality? Do you feel your Self altered by the realisation and practise of this divine art? Do you know of anyone, or yourself, who has stood on the precipice of obsession, or even total emmersion in a new outlook on life? Or do most people simply see it as a longlost and meaningless nocturnal playground for for our minds, a product of evolution and nothing more than a barrier against insanity? A facadé infront of the vaste emptines of existance?

i know this is a heavy post which seems disjointed and sporadic, but if any of the aforementioned ideas seem relevent, or completely irrelivent, i'd like you to discuss it.

Thanks