No, there are quite sane members of the forum who naturally have at least one LD per night. |
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Yesterday in class my history teacher was (oddly) talking about lucid dreams. He was explaining that lucid dreaming can actually hurt your brain when it's trying to process and organize infomation obtained during the day. He also said that if a person were to practice lucid dreaming on a regular basis, that person would go insane! |
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No, there are quite sane members of the forum who naturally have at least one LD per night. |
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This is absolutely false as far as I'm concerned. Dreams are dreams, lucid or not, and there is no evidence suggesting the possibility of insanity through any type of dreaming whatsoever. Dreams are natural and actually quite beneficial. Although, I do find it funny how our minds seem to guard us from lucidity, through the use of false awakenings and the like. Also, when we are dreaming, our minds will constantly make excuses for the odd occurrences we experience, which we often accept, and we are fooled into thinking we are still awake. Why is this? Is there a hidden danger to lucid dreaming that we are not aware of, only known to our minds who are tirelessly working to prevent us from attaining this harmful lucidity? I think it's a stretch, but an interesting idea, nonetheless. |
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I have a medical degree and I naturally lucid dream since a child so no, no insanity here. |
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In fact it makes you more sane since you are bringing consciousness to the unconscious. It will make you more in control over yourself and your life, become more aware of your subconscious reactions and mental/emotional habits that create your experience of life. It helps you to choose your experience in life rather than being at the mercy of your subconscious. |
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Finding out Lucid dreams aren't bad really relieved me |
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The most insane thing in my life was, until I figured out that I am not crazy and that I am having a lucid dream or just a normal sleep paralysis. |
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I have at least 1-3 lucids every single night. This has been going on for at least....hmm, five years? Maybe seven? |
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Originally Posted by OldSparta
I cured my panic attacks and anxiety partially with lucid dreaming (specifically the WILD technique) |
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I think that the one who is insane is your teacher who scares the students from LD without knowing about it properly. |
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"If you realize Sunyata (the void), compassion will arise within your hearts; and when you lose all differentiation between yourself and others, then you will be fit to serve others." - Milarepa
I do not think there is any truth to this. As even though you are controling your dreams you are still using them to process the days events. You can not control 100% of your dreams just your choices in them. |
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I have dreams every day since 7 years ago, lucid since 4 years ago and controlled since 3 years ago, so I would asume I must be already crazy <.< |
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It can be true, or it can be just me. I am a bit crazy anyway(a bit paranoid or somethin, when its dark/i am alone), but since I started ld-ing (probably a year ago) i think I got worse. And at the begging (and sometimes till today), I remember some things from my chlildhood, and like after a minute or so later I start wondering if that was real, or dream. I now have some jumbled up memories, but I think I still can distinguish the real and the dream ones. And I think that my mind got too mixed up, but I dont know if its the lds or not. And btw I dont have lucids on regular basis, I had tonight, but didnt had one in more than a month(or I cant recall them, I never do anything for the recall). |
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Agreed with msot of the above. Lucid dreaming has been shown to help combat nightmares, deal with the subconscious and issues therin, promote mind over body healing, ect. Sounds like your teacher is uneducated and shoudln't speak on things they're not fully understanding. The only way I could see someone going "insane" is if they were already prone to mental health issues and were unable to distinguish waking life from dream life. Excessive drug use, schizophrenia, extreme forms of trauma or abuse in a mental way, and other mental disorders could lead to this. |
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I would've started such a debate with that teacher and probably found out who among my fellow students was a natural at LD |
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I'd love to have every dream lucid, it must be like heaven! (if it's not and there's someone on here who does and hates it, no offence). |
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OHHHHHH....is that what is wrong with me ! |
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Sounds like your teacher needs a little schooling himself. |
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the mind boggles. i didn't think that there was any proper information regarding lucid dreaming, nothing is really concrete (...or so i believed). my mind was definitely more at ease when i did not practice lucid dreaming; more often i have questioned many things that have no answers and are completely pointless (and a waste of time), but over the last few weeks or even months i have began to enjoy my time more on this planet - largely due to my conscious decision to become short sighted and to focus more on the factors in my personal life that i have control/influence over: family, enjoying time with friends and getting myself a serious/lasting gf -- i also channel any of my creativity/mental energy into my art with no filtering. when i tried (and succeeded) to ld a lot and was at a stage where i began looking into similar subjects, it seemed as though i was on a downward spiral and in fact losing my mind (sprays). i almost envy people that are oblivious and wish that my brain had a stabilizing (i almost typed /off) function -- never mind, there are always drukqs! |
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