Thread: Dangers of lucid dreaming? (A response to the Arizona shooting)

"This video is my introduction to you! My favorite activity is conscience dreaming; the greatest inspiration for my political business information. Some of you don't dream — sadly."

This sentence is VERY disturbing for me. I always thought lucid dreaming by it's nature must lead to a good place for a person's mind.

Originally Posted by Nikola

"This video is my introduction to you! My favorite activity is conscience dreaming; the greatest inspiration for my political business information. Some of you don't dream — sadly."

This sentence is VERY disturbing for me. I always thought lucid dreaming by it's nature must lead to a good place for a person's mind.

Some people spend their lucid dreams murdering everyone. Some people make themselves god and have their dream characters worship them. I can understand how someone who is severely unhinged can allow this stuff to manifest in their real lives. Personally I think it is wrong to murder or rape other dream characters...but that's a whole other discussion about lucid dream morality. We have no idea how this guy spent his lucid dreams, so it would all just be speculation at this point.

If you are a crazy person, then most things you do will fit into your delusions. That's why crazy people read a particular book and feel motivated to kill people whereas sane people read the same book without any effect. It's the same in the examples mentioned in this thread: crazy people kill people and say that music made them do it or video games made them do it. Sometimes the crazy person doesn't say what made them do it and so the media/defense has to come up with some explanation that will sell stories. They say that TV made them violent or that eating too many Twinkies made them violent. Whatever. He's just a crazy guy and so obviously his "lucid dreaming" will be crazy too, just like his writing and his reading are crazy- but reading a book or having a dream won't MAKE you crazy. The cause and effect are mixed up.

OK I'm curiuos to read the news stories about this kid. I've stayed away from them because the whole thing is so sad, but now I'm curious. I didn't know they were focusing so much on this lucid dreaming aspect. From the YouTube video, he seemed far more interested in these bizarre concepts of brainwashing and grammar, currency and time.