i'm still not convinced..
well, sorry guys.. as one of you said we sleep 1/3 of our life it is known that all mammals have dreams.. and yet people can't explain why dreaming is so important.
i also know about a person that couldn't dream and was starting to hallucinate some horror stuff into his reality (huge spiders in his shoes, etc..)
what i'm trying to say is that in my opinion dreaming is a sensitive area that science has no clue about its use.
if you had trauma (like an accident in real life) i know that dreams can "fix" and help you get over the trauma.. by messing consciously with dreams i think you might interfere with the body's self help mechanism
maybe people found the way to have lucid dreams.. but do they have the skills to use it at best? without doing any harm
much like a professional auto mechanic and an amateur mechanic messing with the car's engine
(sorry for the bad english)
-jekyll
Re: i'm still not convinced..
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Originally posted by koko
if you had trauma (like an accident in real life) i know that dreams can \"fix\" and help you get over the trauma.. by messing consciously with dreams i think you might interfere with the body's self help mechanism
I have studied a bit about dreams in my psychology class, and, as I understood, the purpose of dreams is to fulfill all of our desires. We do not do so explicitely, in a way our conscious mind can decipher it, but rather our brain creats situations that are a substitute for the wanted action. This is process is called censorship.
So, in dreams we indirectly fulfill our fantasies and work out our issues. But in lucid dreams, there is no censorship. You are conscious of the process and know what you are doing. You fulfill your fantasies directly and knowingly. So I guess that, although some unconscious desire will remain unfulfilled, others that are consciously present will take place...thus no harm no foul...to some extent...