Can lucid dreaming trigger schizophrenia?

**Arutad** · 09-02-2009 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by imj

I think it may lead to Schizophrenia in my case if I continue

Schizophrenia is a scary word, but in reality you're unlikely to have it. It is not an illness per se but a collection of a few symptoms that gets labeled like that. Inward persective is not one of them.

I have stopped my activities but find it difficult to restablish normal thought patterns without losing focus and going inward again toward lucid dreaming thoughts. At the same time I find it almost impossible to NOT think of it as it already has become a thought pattern by itself. The remedy I think is to allow the thoughts as random but not pay too much attention to it so after sometime it'll fade I guess.

The remedy is to plunge yourself into reality, judging by your complaint about having no life it is the real root of your problem, and LDing might be a substitute for something else. So that really is the best advise I can give you! Dealing with reality a lot has a side-effect of destroying obsessions, too, by making you too busy to think of them.

And if you want to block out the annoying thought patterns at times when you're alone and happen to have nothing to do, you could instead study something very hard (non-school chemistry, math) or pick an addictive activity (gaming, watching movies), in other words do something that can temporarily blast out all thoughts unrelated to it by the amount of focus required to do it. But that alone is unlikely to help you, in my opinion.

**imj** · 09-03-2009 02:16 PM

Seems the dreaming effect is controlling the concious mind which makes it hard to break away from it. I have been thinking this started ONLY after my mother passed away in 2007...before I din't have any of this "Schizophrenic" like symptoms even when I was very obsessed with lucid dreaming, I still had my feet touching reality. It could be the sudden grief/sense of loss and security although I have recovered quite abit but I admit my perception had shifted toward the unreal like as though her death was not part of reality and neither am I and I also noticed a shift in things like my room and familiar environments feels estranged from the way it was. I think doing lucid dreaming during this time after her death for too long could have aggrevated the condition and produced a "Schizophrenic" like effect on the mind that I may not be aware off or paid much attention to. So the remedy may be to overcome her death and regroup the mind like you mentioned...plunge back into reality.

IMJ

**beachgirl** · 09-06-2009 02:37 AM

Hi there,

The feelings of schizophenia can be a sign of spiritual awakening.

Here is a resource. You can check it out and see if it applies/resonates at all with you.

http://spiritualemergency.blogspot.c...ergencies.html
warmly,
bg

**SillyRabbit** · 09-06-2009 09:15 PM

i have minor schizo and lucid dreaming did not trigger it, mushrooms actually did among other drugs aswell.

**imj** · 09-07-2009 01:47 AM

Originally Posted by beachgirl

Hi there,

The feelings of schizophenia can be a sign of spiritual awakening.

Here is a resource. You can check it out and see if it applies/resonates at all with you.

http://spiritualemergency.blogspot.c...ergencies.html
warmly,
bg

Thanks for the link....

.

IMJ

**Dream scientist** · 09-07-2009 04:44 AM

I don't think lucid dreaming can trigger schizophrenia, but you first have to think about what schizophrenia is. Schizophrenia is hearing voices, is it not?

I am, however, very interested in what you said about lucid dreaming changing habitual thought patterns. I recently read a book that said lucid dreamers had minds and cognitive functions similar to that of people who practice TD meditation, which is definitely a good thing.

**zherkehzi** · 09-07-2009 03:17 PM

I've had lucid dreams since I was 5. You just need to take a break from them.
Next time you want to do a reality check just put it out of your mind.(Let the dream take it's course.) Focus on school/work, or find a hobby. The mind is not something to mess with.
What I do is have lucid dreams for awhile(a week), then take a VERY long break from them.
Just stop thinking about them. Stay away from this website,
This all sounds drastic but it helps me. And besides, I enjoy non-lucid dreams better anyway.