Thread: Release of suppressed emotions in LD's?

Hi,

I'm new here but have already been busy with lucid dreaming since quite a while now.. and had 2 pre-lucids and 2 lucids till now and I'm sorry if this topic already came up, but I couldn't find anything...

Anyway, I was asking myself if it's possible to release suppressed emotions (such as anger or sadness or something) in LD's? The idea came to me because both of my lucids were kind of brutal and I killed a lot of people... so I thought I might be letting my suppressed emotions out or something. Is it possible that if you behave that way in dreams it's kind of like in real, and you feel relieved after it?

You can do anything.

Originally Posted by Kyte

You can do anything.

thanks, but I know that... thats kind of the reason why I got interested in lucid dreaming in the first place. My question was if I let out my suppressed emotions in lucid dreams that it will affect my real life somehow. Or if its the same result if I hurt/destroy smthg in real or in a lucid..

I don't think anyone really knows a concrete answer to this, it would probably all be speculation. But if you feel more relaxed after slaughtering a bunch of DCs, go for it One time I wasted a lucid bitching some people out, I felt pissed afterward that I hadn't done something more thoroughly therapeutic and enjoyable.

My personal answer to this would be that, nicely talking and doing nice things with your DCs would have a better effect than killing them. When I do enjoyable things in ym lucids, I am amazingly happy when I wake up. If I wake up from killing people, I think I'll feel more like a psycopath than good...

Originally Posted by SleepyCookieDough

My personal answer to this would be that, nicely talking and doing nice things with your DCs would have a better effect than killing them. When I do enjoyable things in ym lucids, I am amazingly happy when I wake up. If I wake up from killing people, I think I'll feel more like a psycopath than good...

Well, sure.. gonna try that some time but you dont have to kill someone in order to let the emotion out. thats just what happened to me... it would have a similar effect if you just destroy something or do something else. im sure everybody felt at least once such a rage that he had to let it out some way, either shout at somebody, or destroy something, have a burnout, ... and i think it would be pretty nice if you could do that in your dreams instead

Originally Posted by Shift

I don't think anyone really knows a concrete answer to this, it would probably all be speculation. But if you feel more relaxed after slaughtering a bunch of DCs, go for it One time I wasted a lucid bitching some people out, I felt pissed afterward that I hadn't done something more thoroughly therapeutic and enjoyable.

thanks for the post and yeah, I did kind of feel lighter after killing them