Lucid dreaming + Psychoactive drugs
Please don't go and tell me that drugs are bad, I know that drugs are bad but I did have a very strange dream the other day in which I came onto something. Probably nothing but I really felt like I had to tell someone.
Here's my thought process, hang in there cause it is pretty crazy.
1. whenever I smoke a joint that feeling u get (for me) is VERY similar to the feeling you get if you stay up VERY late and force yourself to stay awake.
2. That forgetfulness that people get when doing psychoactive drugs like marijuana, mushrooms, and salvia are very similar to that of a dream state.
Why am I mentioning all of this? Just some pothead trying to make marry jane look good? No not at all.
The reason why I mention this is because If psychoactive drugs touch your logic center in the same way that your brain shuts off your logic center and allows your mind to roam free, there are a lot of applications for this:
1. You have heard people say. Well when I am high I am more creative. Well there might be something to that. Since the logic center of your brain is being forced into submission because of some drug. Your brain is going to use more of its cpu power to use for your thought process. It will allow your creativity to roam wild, and the parts of your brain which is constantly looking for danger gets turned down a bit. However this is nothing compared to the power of lucid dreams.
Well what good is this to us? Even if it is true? (which it probably isn't)
Well for one it might allows us to figure out how the logic center in our brain works. Also i have to mention that using psychoactive drugs in my personal experience makes it HARDER to have a lucid dream. Why? well I think that is because if marijuana works on the logic center, and when you are dreaming that logic center is already turned off. It is going to be so much harder to "realize" that one is dreaming.
Now why am I mentioning all of this? Well I think it might be possible to cure or at least help treat diseases like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, manic episodes and so forth. how? Well take schizophrenia for example. This is a person who has multiple personalities in one body. I can see this being that the logic center has been damaged. Maybe because of drug use maybe not. the point being, the logic part of that persons brain is damaged. And his inner characters are coming out separately. I think that if a person like this confronts this other character in a dream, and merges with it. (because its part who he / she is) that person might be able to effectively cure himself.
The drugs therapists give patients like this work like this:
Our bodies make certain molecules to do different things. There are so many that we are not even close to figuring it all out. But what therapists momentarily think is that since that persons brain is making too little of a certain substance, those people need to take daily pills to help compensate for that fact. This is a long process in which different pills are given in different combination to find the patients perfect dosage. This can really help these kind of people. But are your really treating anything? is it not the same thing as putting a band-aid on a cut instead of preventing the cut from happening in the first place?
I think it might be very interesting to look into this.
Last thought:
I have only had 3 lucid dreams in my life. I have only found out about lucid dreaming for about one year. So I have a question for some of the more experienced lucid dreamers. Have any of you ever smoked a joint in your dream (if you have done it in real life as well) and if so does it feel the same?