Thread: Can Lucid Dreaming Be Dangerous?!

We have over 10,000 members here, and I haven't heard about losing anybody yet. Many here, including me, have died in our dreams and remain here to talk about it, so that one is a myth. Do you have any other specific concerns? Physically, nobody's ever reported more than a VERY rare bit of discomfort during Sleep Paralysis (SP). Mentally and emotionally, lucid dreaming seems beneficial.

hmm is it even possible to die in dream???
I mean u can get hit by a train, fall from building but before u get hit or hit ground i think u wake up, so u never know if u actually died... That is what i think. never heard that someone has died in dream and that didn't wake up or become zombie

i think the only "bad" thing can happen is to know more about urself.

anyway try it, u have nothing to loose. I am newbie myself, but i never heard that someone regretted having LD.

have fun n enjoy

I wouldn't think it's dangerous...if you are not experiencing things on the same plane as your body, than nothing can harm your body on that plane because it is a different plane.

I suppose if you are having a true OBE, though, that there might be something out there powerful enough to keep you from getting back to your body. But you can ask protection or will that this not happen.

[topic="This Wikipedia link"]http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lucid_Dreaming:_Introduction#Addiction[/topic] mentions of a few dangers to lucid dreaming. Personally, I think all of them are crap...

If you have your mind in the right place, then you have nothing to worry about. If anyone says to have any of those problems with lucid dreaming (which I have yet to hear), then most likely that person already had some mental problems to begin with, and lucid dreaming can't be blamed.

Originally Posted by Baalzamon

hmm is it even possible to die in dream???[/b]

I died last week in a non-lucid. I died (someone killed me I think), and a few seconds later I was alive again, living normally. In the dream, I thought that it was because God was giving me a second chance to live. Crazy dream...

i remember hearing years ago that its possible to die of a heart attack while sleeping because the dream is too intense. e.g falling from a tall building not knowing its a dream. The reason somebody stated this I think is because it is possible to die of a heart attack in RL while falling from a great height and being so scared you actually died of a heart attacked before you hit the ground ( im not saying this is 100% true, but i do believe thats possible.
I myself have died in non Lucid dreams and i just magically appeared again : )
Of course it shouldn't happen to Lucid Dreamers as we know its safe : )

Originally Posted by Kevsmev

i remember hearing years ago that its possible to die of a heart attack while sleeping because the dream is too intense. e.g falling from a tall building not knowing its a dream. The reason somebody stated this I think is because it is possible to die of a heart attack in RL while falling from a great height and being so scared you actually died of a heart attacked before you hit the ground ( im not saying this is 100% true, but i do believe thats possible.[/b]

I would imagine the person would wake up from the intensity before having the heart attack. Think about it... the simple excitement of finding out you're dreaming is often enough to wake you up. If the intensity is so great that you're about to have a heart attack, you would wake up. If not from the intensity, then from the pain of the heart attack.

Originally Posted by tyrantt23

I would imagine the person would wake up from the intensity before having the heart attack. Think about it... the simple excitement of finding out you're dreaming is often enough to wake you up. If the intensity is so great that you're about to have a heart attack, you would wake up. If not from the intensity, then from the pain of the heart attack.[/b]

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Some people arent as lucky as others, take nightmares or unpleasant SPs for example, sometimes people find it near impossible to wake despite being in so much fear or intensity. Also there has been many reported incidents where people (including my uncle God rest his soul) have died from heart attacks when sleeping. Also some people are more prone to heart attacks than others, e.g people with pacemakers or just doggy tickers, it doest take much to give them a heart attack. And also i stated that people have died when they are not LDing so i think you miss understood what i said : )

Well, since having heart attacks is linked with normal dreams, the only extra "dangers" that lucid dreaming presents are feeling pain during dreams, or the sometimes disturbing results of sleep paralysis or WILDing.

In perspective, the benefits outweigh the dangers by a longshot.

Originally Posted by Pensive

In perspective, the benefits outweigh the dangers by a longshot.[/b]

Exactly : )

Lucid Dreaming would only be really dangerous to someone with a mental disorder. Someone who could confuse the real world with the dream world. Also, in some cases such as heart conditions, its possible. If some 80 year old guy, with a weak heart was having outrageous sex in a Lucid, well, that might cause some problems. However, both cases can be the same with just regular dreaming. So, LDing is no more dangerous than Dreaming normally, and Dreaming is something we all do without choice.

Dying in a dream and dying in real life is a fairytale. Its not true. Many people here have died in their dreams, myself included.

Experiencing Death in dreams:
http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/index.php?...t=0&start=0

Can it be dangerous????

Only with Freddy in your dreams

...THANKS, Ranma. That really needed to be the last thing I saw, before I went to bed. :sweat2:

Lol.

Pfft, what do you care O? Just whip out some of that super awesome O-asskickery. Freddy's got nothing on you!

The worst thing that can happen if you die is if you are truly afraid and wake up. The best thing that can happen is if you become a spirit! From there, you can take over an NPC's body if you wish to control a corporeal body.

...Did you honestly just call them NPCs?

When I was a kid I'd have this series of dreams....they were all lucid, and each night they began the same way. It was like a tv soap or something, complete with title screen and theme song.

Anyways, some of them turned pretty ugly, even though they were lucid---I guess I just knew that certain things were supposed to occur in the "series", but they never scared me. I remember feeling frightened, but I wouldn't wake up form them.

Then there was another time when I had a dream that I was alone in my house but being pursued by some people who had come to rob the place but who wanted to kill me when they learned I was in the house. I knew I was dreaming, so I told myself that if I just went to sleep, I could wake up in the real world. I kept climbing out the window of my house and getting into this little wire dog cage and going to sleep...but every time I woke up I'd ask myself if I was dreaming or not, and I'd hear the robbers downstairs and decide that I'd actually woken up into yet another dream....finally I did wake up- from the whole thing.

Originally Posted by ExoByte

...Did you honestly just call them NPCs? [/b]

LOL!!! I don't know why the hell I did that. And I don't even play RPGs at all, when I think of it.

Originally Posted by lucylovesconner

hi, i've only really researched on lucid dreaming a little bit so far as i am new here and new to it all, but it sounds fantastic =] but im a little concerned if they can be dangerous in anyway possible, like for example if you die in a dream you die in real life and so on...
Therefore i was woundering if anyone could help me out and answer my question so i can feel much more confident about lucid dreaming in the future.
Thankyou for reading & all replies are welcome.

lucylovesconner x[/b]

One possible danger I could see, and I'm sure I have read about too... would be on more of a personal and social danger.
Would be for Lucid dreaming to become addictive...

If it really is good as people say and you can obtain full lucidity frequently then you might endup liking your dream world much more than the real would and as a result become more reclusive and spend all your time sleeping or possibly popping pills to induce sleep... which would in turn actually end up being physically dangerous.

This is actually an apprehension and concern that my sister has for me, but I don't think I'd ever let it get to that stage.

Lucid dreaming is not dangerous. If you allow yourself to become a crazy addicted person, that's your fault, not the concept of lucid dreaming. It's possible to get addicted to anything.

Well, I don't see how you would get addicted. That is, unless you spend all of your time sleeping. then again, it is impossible to sleep perpetually. BTW, you don't dream in a coma so nobody say that.

what is sleep paralysis?

Originally Posted by baller

what is sleep paralysis?[/b]

It's when, after you fall asleep, your body is paralysed and you can't move. The intensity of this depends on how deeply you sleep.

What exactly triggers sleep paralysis? I've only experienced it, to my recollection, once--and that was on a day that I was so tired that I fell asleep on the floor of a room and woke up three hours later. I didn't remember falling asleep, and I thought that I must still be dreaming when I woke up unable to move. It passed after about 30 seconds, and I was fine as well as still awake.