I am not a doctor or expert but only thing I want to say is that it's good to be cautious and it's more better to live and face the real world.I think it's harsh for you so I hope you understand. |
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I was in a shop today pushing a shopping trolley about. I got into an argument with my mother as usual, and ended up thinking the following in order: |
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I am not a doctor or expert but only thing I want to say is that it's good to be cautious and it's more better to live and face the real world.I think it's harsh for you so I hope you understand. |
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My intention is not to negatively judge, by any means, only to help [if possible]... |
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"you will not transform this house of prayer into a house of thieves"
Meh, escapism isn't such a bad thing. |
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Well, every day I think about what I want to do in a lucid dream during the day. So I sort of set myself LD goals all the time. |
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i say, its your life and its your hobby who cares how much its on your mind, unless its effcting your life in a bad way you should prolly take a break. but other wise dream on! |
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Law abiding citizen by day, breaking the laws of reality by night.
"How can you be aware that you're dreaming, if you're never aware that you're awake?"
Its not effecting me in a bad way at all. Since I started doing LDing seriously I: |
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I used to be really obsessed with lucid dreaming too. At one point it not only felt as real as waking life, but I sometimes cared about the dream world a bit more than waking life. Strangely enough, it was this obsession with dreams that led me to appreciate waking life more than I ever had before. |
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"When you see the shadows falling,
When you hear that cold wind calling,
Hold on tight to your dream."
-ELO
Well, I am not doing a social experiment. I wondered some of the same things, especially when I started to become good at it, just like you are doing right now. Let me tell ya, I have been obsessed with many things... video games, books, bodysurfing, women, sex, drugs, music, writing, acting, astral projection, didjeridoo, money, and dreaming. Obsession is not necessarily a bad thing. It's what you are obsessed with. I found obsession with video games to be the biggest time waster. Dreaming doesn't take any time. You do it while you are asleep. |
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Hmm, that makes me feel a little better. |
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Loaf, I don't know if you are gonna read this again since you've come to your conclusion, but let me say that how could you consider lucid dreaming unhealthy if it has made you happier and not effected your waking life in any negative way? |
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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
Yeah I understand what you mean there. |
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Sounds like you have a slight obsessive/addictive personality. With self-control you will be okay... with indulgence and loss of other motives you will find problems. |
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Some great answers there! |
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Come on! What if Martin Luther King said: "I kinda have a dream... nah, I don't wanna talk about it."
Interesting. |
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Our whole life is mostly one big escapism , just choose the right one at the right time , and you'll be fine |
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Oh, pfft. Escapism, pah. Are you happy? That's all that matters. So you have a hobby. Big deal. Think of all the other people who get hyped up over stuff. Video games, sports, building models, all that. You're no different. Embrace it! Lucid dreaming trumps all that stuff. Why shouldn't you be pumped up? |
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I have slightly altered my views since the above post. |
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I've decided I'll still enjoy lucid dreaming and think about it, but I'll always keep a 50/50 balance. In the day I won't nap or any crap like that. As I said in another post, why trade one reality for another when you can have both? |
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"Anything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picasso.
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." - Henry David Thoreau
Tasks of the Year Completed: China (Asia)
I spend some of my time playing games, but usually they are creative games where you build things. Like Garrys Mod, or 3D lego games and such. |
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Thanks! |
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Just to second that... I'll say that when I first started LD'ing I was obsessed for 3-4 months, then I knew that I didn't wanted to RC every five minutes for the rest of my life - but still didn't wanted to stop having supergreat LD's. So I took another approach - read some books about dream yoga and also read Eckhart Tolles "The power of now". Suddenly my perspective had changed. |
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