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

i just read this in the most recent issue of Time magazine.

"by several accounts loughner had become fascinated with lucid dreaming, a dream state you can enter when half asleep. you are aware while in that state that you are dreaming. loughners interest in lucid dreams is significant, because last year the European Science Foundation reported that lucid dreaming "creates distinct patterns of electrical activity in the brain that have similarities to the patterns made by psychotic conditions." Loughners drug use could have kept him from falling into deep sleep and encourage lucid dreaming. the European group said paranoid delusions can occur when lucid dreams are replayed repeatedly after the subject wakes up. loughner was replaying his lucid dreams in an extensive dream journal"

to me this is all bull shit. the media is just looking for a scapegoat. lucid dreaming had nothing to do with it jared loughner was already mentally insane.

oh and heres the article they talk about from the european science group, what time magazine said was totally out of context. sounds like to me that the article is explaining how lucid dreaming could help treat psychosis.


New Links Between Lucid Dreaming And Psychosis Could Revive Dream Therapy In Psychiatry

im not even worried tho, even if they came to some ridiculous conclusion that it was caused by lucid dreaming, they could never outlaw lucid dreaming.

edit: just saw that this story was posted above.