Thread: We know the Good, what about the Bad and Ugly??

Relax.. there's nothing wrong with LD. It's just impossible that it "drives you crazy". If anyone has ever read Descartes, questioning our own reality is the basis for rationnality... Reality Checks are just the opposite of going insane.

And for the weird sounds, they are just HH that eventually will wear out with experience. Nothing to be afraid. LDing and putting attetion to dreams only has benefits : increasing creativity, intuition, appreciaton for beauty etc.. and having fun while other people just sleep

Originally Posted by High Hunter

How much do you think your behavior in lucid dreams affect your waking behavior? I mean, I've heard of a bunch of people on here who spend a lot of time killing dream characters in their lucid dreams. Now I'm sure that they don't go around killing people in real life, but does this behavior affect anything about themselves when they are awake? Do they not kill people, but think about it? Maybe that would eventually lead you to disconnect from people and perhaps lead to symptoms of dissociation in some aspect. I'm just speculating of course..

What do you guys think?

This point/argument, makes me think about a common debate about video games and if violent ones can lead to people becoming violent in real life, especially games where the sole mission is to kill as many people as possibal. In college, we had several discussions about this very point, it always seemed to end on "moderation is key". So, perhaps people killing e/o in dreams in extreme cases could lead to violent dissociatiion... I don't know, what do you think? Going off this (and also a little off topic) what is everyones thoughts on children/teens playing extreme violent video games?? Here's some food for thought

Originally Posted by Shift

Addiction can happen with anything.

I agree with this as long as you agree that there are various forms of addiction, meaning they are not all chemical or physcal, there can be psychological addictions as well, although the latter is controversal to some. I do think that becoming too obsessed with LDing can be a bad thing, ie sleeping too much, RCing extensivley, zoning out to binaural beats etc... and could possibly lead some to an obsessive compulsive behavior or an addiction when it comes to LDing.

Originally Posted by Mauricio

Relax.. there's nothing wrong with LD. It's just impossible that it "drives you crazy". If anyone has ever read Descartes, questioning our own reality is the basis for rationnality... Reality Checks are just the opposite of going insane.

And for the weird sounds, they are just HH that eventually will wear out with experience. Nothing to be afraid. LDing and putting attetion to dreams only has benefits : increasing creativity, intuition, appreciaton for beauty etc.. and having fun while other people just sleep

Thanks for your opinion on this matter. Just to clarify, no one is saying that LDing will make your crazy. We are discussing the negative, or bad and ugly "symptoms" of lucid dreams and how, in some cases, it could lead to signs of a mind that is slightly distracted and disoriented. I agree that LDing is awesome, it has so many benefits and it's downright fun! However, it is obvious from the replies and from other threads I have found, that many people share this interest and have also had negative things happen due to LDing. Whether these negative things are simply HH, confusing dreams with reality or developing a slight addiction, I think they can effect some worse than others. Some people seem to be "naturals" at dreaming (great recall, natural at WILDing, experienced LD all there lives) and maybe these people could begin to experience halucinations (visual and audio) during random waking hours, or maybe someone begins ignoring friends/family, stops going out and literally stays in bed all day attempting to LD. - Can anyone relate to this?

detroitLions1970 -I have never been a sleep talker, but same with you, I have begun shouting and mumbling (mostly when I'm attempting to control a SP spell) I don't really think ths could be a major problem though Although, developing sleep walking could be bad