Thread: Evil Lucid Dreamers?

^^ I could be wrong, PrisonPlanet, but here's a thought you might consider: Maybe those LD's you had weren't LD's at all, but dreams about LD's, generated perhaps by some unconscious expectation you might have developed that the lucid realm is a place you're not meant to visit.

I know that sounds silly on its face, but you might give it a thought. I've come to believe that many of the dreams we (myself included) remember to be lucid really never were. Our unconscious/dreaming minds are fully capable of conjuring a dream -- based on often deep expectation -- whose content is a story of us becoming lucid and then encountering all the stuff they talk about on the web; including the bad stuff. You might have generated some expectations that included things like dream police and maybe that LD'ing was not a "correct" thing to do in the first place, and your dreaming mind simply obliged by offering up a dream about being lucid, including all the things going wrong that you can imagine... you might even have inadvertently punished yourself after that brief bit of lucidity with that draconian dream (you might, for that matter have never woken up at all, with that perceived wake-up just being an aspect of the dream).

In other words, there may be no evil demons or dream police at all; just DC's created by your dreaming mind in response to cues it was given based on your thoughts about LD'ing. How to fix this? I'm not sure, because it might require a major shift in your mindset; however, I have a feeling that if you were to become successful at actually LD'ing, you might find that, perhaps over time, the dream police will fade into the background... and, in the end, maybe you'll have "good" LD's from then on, along with a permanent annoyance for the folks who muddy the water for so many new LD'ers by inventing cool memes like dream police.

Again, just a thought...