I was talking with a friend today who wants to practice to do this. She and I both have partially lucid dreams, but she seems to think that having lucid dreams would be of some benefit to her. I said that everyone I know who has lucid dreams still struggles with life on an everyday basis just like everyone else. That lucid dreaming doesn't seem to be correlated with any resolution on anything one might get into on an emotional level. So why is lucid dreaming a good idea? Why would I want to have lucid dreams?
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Mon, January 21, 2008 - 9:00 PMif you have had a lucid dream you wouldn't be asking these questions :) -
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Mon, January 21, 2008 - 9:06 PMPower dreaming equals power waking.
And I don't mean power over. Something like self power.
Mostly what nora said. -
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Mon, January 21, 2008 - 10:55 PMimagine your consciousness in a physicless environment where anything is possible.
omfg I'm so in love with life.
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Mon, January 21, 2008 - 11:58 PMhey Mickey, have you ever tried writing a story?
dreaming is much like a story, except you are (almost?) always the main character. Better than a movie, lucidity allows you to banish monsters, be a hero, without budget limitations or ego battles. While lucidity in a dream may not solve your emotional conflicts over day-to-day problems, it can help you resolve underlying issues--especially help you to identify what those issues are. If you are talking about resolving emotional issues that develop within the dream, lucidity is invaluable. with any problem, it helps to take a step back and consider, right?
In dreams, you are still you--different cloths, different place, same author? you are still working with your same repertoire of emotions and patterns.
But, if you have the possibility of seeing how you would feel different if you changed something small in your day-to-day, wouldn't you give it a try? Imagine that you can change the world. If it returns to normal in the morning, you didn't lose anything. -
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Tue, January 22, 2008 - 9:42 AMlucid dreaming dramatically helps you to resolve life issues......then you live your Awake State more lucidly... -
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Tue, January 22, 2008 - 9:44 AMdoes this hair make me look superficial? -
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Tue, January 22, 2008 - 1:49 PMOkay, then for the sake of argument, why aren't we all self-actualized folks? -
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Wed, January 23, 2008 - 11:41 AMIn that case, I would say lucid dreaming is a neurological phenomenon, and less a psychological phenomenon. -
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Wed, January 23, 2008 - 4:22 PMit's both
because what happens in the dreams
and how you react to them
is as important as a reflection
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Wed, January 23, 2008 - 5:32 PMYou know,
I know people who, like, do stuff, you know,
but, you know,
stuff still is like, you know, .....stuff.
Why should stuff get done by people if stuff is still, like, you know.....
STUFF?
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Oi vey.
Is this shit real,
or am I dreaming right now? -
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Wed, January 23, 2008 - 7:34 PMDid you take the red pill or the blue one? -
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Thu, January 24, 2008 - 6:10 AMThis is how lucid dreams benefit me:
I haven't had a true nightmare since I was a little girl. I started having them when I was 5, and couldn't sleep, and my parents couldn't sleep either. So, they taught me how to take control in my dream, take over, make the outcome of my dream mine. I have some pretty weird dreams sometimes, but even with those, they're not scary, they mean something, and I usually know what that is the next day. For some reason, I seem to frequently have dreams where I'm solving a mystery, or saving the world, and I always have a sidekick, lol.
Anyway, taking control of the situation in any dream that I have has greatly benefited me as a girl and as an adult. -
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Thu, January 24, 2008 - 10:31 AMYes, my idea of a nightmare has changed since I have learned to lucid dream. So there is one benefit.
Working on self
Working on ones spirit.
teaching yourself to fly, have telepathy, and other abilities.
Learning ones personal symbols, so one can understand the precognitive nature of the dreamworld.
Dream to WAKE UP.
All the benefits are waiting for you.
Peace, and happy dreaming.
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Fri, January 25, 2008 - 2:49 PMHi Mickey,
I am going to give you the Machiavellian answer to your question:
Because you can--once you are good enough at it--do all kinds of fun (or just socially objectionable) stuff you can't do in real life.
As for "benefits" in the more obvious sense, I did see a tv special awhile back where some people who were interviewed talked about losing weight after gaining the ability to have lucid dreams in which they pig out on their favorite foods.
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Sun, February 3, 2008 - 11:13 PMBecause I lucid dream I continue to question my surroundings, my reality in this world...what is REAL anyway? It helps to expand my mind and know that things can be altered and improved. I believe the two realms arnt very different from each other after all, but our minds have put up constructs which restrict full potential. Lucid dreaming helps break down some of those barriers. -
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Mon, February 4, 2008 - 6:47 PMWell said.
And it is just really cool to "wake up" in the dreamspace and be able to fly around with a 6-legged giraffe on a red planet made of mushrooms and to note, "Wow. This isn't a typical Monday."
Also, like Sent was pointing toward, lucid dreaming shows us the immediate effects our imagination has on our environment. It can show us how powerful we are, without the time lag of thought to physicality, since dreaming is a realm more akin to thought.
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Wed, February 6, 2008 - 7:28 AMThe lucid state is a great construct to work with metacognition and just generally play around in one's own mind.
