but all you do is wake up and go back to sleep people do that all the time anyways... |
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Hi guys. Having a lucid dream was always a chalenge for me, but isn't it unsafe trying to fool your brain? Its more about wild than anything, or even WBTB. DILD or anything similar that doesnt make you wake up in the night seems more safe... I think thats unsafe because I always thought that our health comes with good sleep. People doing WILD are sriously toying with REM cycless which are very important. I read some article a while ago about some experiments about REM cycles on the USA and the guys who experimented it ended crazy with mental sickness. But its just my worries because we are toying with our brain, something that we dont know what we are messing with, like the pandora box. I know that they seem very cool, but think about it... Just trying to help the community. Sorry for the lack of coesion in the text, Im not english |
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but all you do is wake up and go back to sleep people do that all the time anyways... |
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Please do not spread fear with misinformation. |
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I am not even going to be bothered with any 'techniques' except learning to recognize when I am in a dream by constantly asking myself throughout the day if I am dreaming, looking at my hands, checking if I am dreaming whenever I pass through a doorway or look at a clock (sorry, I'm a newb, not sure what you call this method). I am sure as others have said that it all methods are completely safe and this gentleman you refer to was put under extreme conditions, but if you are really worried, just try and recognize when you are in a dream. It just takes a few seconds out of your day to check every now and then. However, I wouldn't worry about any of the techniques being discussed. Nobody is recommending smoking crack or anything, it's just sleep. I would wager if anything, that it is beneficial, as most of them use recall, concentration, relaxation, and meditation, all of which are in fact, very good for you. |
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and now begins the battle to make our souls gorgeous - Allen Ginsberg
Most importantly (and as Nina said), lucid dreaming is natural. We are not 'hacking our brains', as some people might interpret it. |
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Last edited by Oneironaut Zero; 05-28-2010 at 02:29 AM.
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you might have heard about sleep deprived people, or those trying out those napped based sleep schedules. They sometimes have major sleep disruptions, but losing a half hour won't do anything as long as you make sure to compensate for it. |
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The burden of proof lies with the one making the claim
Goals:
10 Lucids [X]
Look at my reflection [X]
Dream sex [X] with climax [X]
Sorry If I spread a little fear but there was something on me that didnt like the idea of wilding and I just put out a doubt. Sure lucid dreaming won't do anything bad its just recognizing that youre dreaming. I just had to put it out off me. Sorry guys. |
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As people have said, there seems to be little evidence of ill effects of lucid dreaming. However, I guess there might be some reasons LDs could be considered harmful. |
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To the OP: Your perception will define your reality. If you view Lucid dreaming with fear, you will project that. Everyone is different. Perhaps you should better understand yoursefl and your fears so you don't create issues for yourself. |
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You don't understand WILD at all, you aren't depriving your body of sleep, you aren't adversely effecting mental health. All you are doing is going back to sleep after you wake up and remaining aware so you can enter a dream. |
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"I feel my heart glow
with enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven; for nothing contributes so much to tranquillise the mind as a steady purpose--a point
on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." -
Victor Frankenstein
Well, yes, but the question is not how important the negative effects are, but whether they exist. I was just considering an "ideal" situation where you spend most of your time lucid dreaming, or at least most of your REM sleep lucid dreaming. Considering that, I remain curious as to whether my proposed objections to lucid dreaming (once again, I'm playing the devil's advocate, I'm not really confident in these objections) hold or not. |
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