Hi, I have been into lucid dreaming for 3 and a half years and I feel that there is a big change as in habitual thought patterns as compared to before I did lucid dreaming. The most obvious change or alteration is the idea of reality checks to check if i'm dreaming or not. Doing them for too long I find actually weakens the border between reality and dreams at a subconcious level. In the begining it was fun to do but I got tired of them and stopped after a month or so and picked it up again for like few weeks and then stop again for a while. Other times would be like thinking of LD thoughts and what to use as a good reality check. This went on for the better part of the first year and 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. And up till this year...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.... Makes me think....can too much lucid dreaming eventually lead to Schizophrenia? Now even when I have stopped everything lucid dreaming....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. So just wondering if anyone who lucid dreams as avid as I do exhibit this same effect that I think can only be blamed on myself entirely...

IMJ