Thread: Can lucid dreaming trigger schizophrenia?

Originally Posted by imj

by the second year I started on dream enactment meaning I acted out the dream sequence I created to use in the eventual lucid dream...call me obsessed but as I went on with 'new' ideas to have lucid dreams and do my thing in them the more I wanted to lucid dream regularly.

What does that mean, are you saying that you keep acting out your future dream-actions in reality uncontrollably?

I feel my mind is saturated with the idea of lucid dreaming and I cannot 'shake' off the strain of doing it even when I don't....

Doing what? When you don't do what?

I feel the mind is going through a psychological 'epilepsy' like I'd find it difficult to stay focused on the environment instead of going inward and I'd have to pull myself back into awareness of my environment.

Are you speaking about thinking too much to yourself or about some kind of zoning out? The first is normal.

It's hard to answer such a question when the information you give is so vague. But so far there's no direct evidence that LDing can trigger mental illnesses. It might, just as the first-time alcohol drinking or first-time doing drugs is often a trigger for a latent illness. But how many people have you seen who go mad from drinking or drugs? That's rare, so you have nothing to fear, unless you think that you might have a latent disease that could be triggered by experiences with alternative states. And even then, there's no evidence that LDing falls into the same risk group as alcohol or drugs.