Quote Originally Posted by Flixster View Post
This is already happening. I was discussing lucid dreaming on a friend's wall when a third person chimed in out of nowhere with this:

"Jared Loughner practiced lucid dreaming to the extent that psychiatrists and close friends feared it exacerbated his mental illness much more so than "political rhetoric" and demonstrated a lot of psychiatric and scientific evidence indicating lucid dreams can, in latent, otherwise passive, delusional sociopaths, with no propensity for violence, induce strong violent impulses that are almost impossible to control, and that these can be amplified by even mild drug use to %65 percent of people who have experiment with drugs and lucid dreaming. I'm as liberal as they come, and even think drugs should be legal, but lucid dreaming mixed with drugs, more than any political discourse, is shaping up to be what set this nutcase off. I think we have a lot more to learn about lucid dreaming before people start self medicating with it."

I'm not even sure where he's getting some of these statistics but they sound like b.s. Needless to say I gave him a nice verbal backhand. I also find it ridiculous that writers and speculators are combining lucid dreaming with the spectre of drugs to make one big scary problem that doesn't even exist. None of the psychedelic crap Loughner was using even remotely helps sleeping or dreaming.
holy shit. what a fucking idiot. i cannot believe some people. the media tells them one thing and all of the sudden they are an expert on the matter. this is the first real attack on lucid dreaming, i know nothing will ever really come of it cause its impossible to outlaw lucid dreaming, but just the fact that its spreading misinformation and giving lucid dreaming a bad name really pisses me off.