Thread: Arizona Killer Jared Loughner and Lucid Dreaming: Time Magazine Flub?

Jared Loughner will have no disciples.

That’s what the dream told me.

See my blog, if you want to know.

Originally Posted by ThomasGrey

Jared Loughner will have no disciples.

That’s what the dream told me.

See my blog, if you want to know.

Originally Posted by Caradon

I dreamed I was at the shooting. It brought up a world I had forgotten. I'm trying to make sense of it. I'm supposed to find others. My blog is at blogspot. It's called Whispers and Shadows. This system won't let me post a link yet. I hope that helps.

I came across this thread while searching for potentially negative side-effects that can come as a result of lucid dreaming. This is an area where very few in the lucid dreaming community have put a disclaimer for those that may not be mentally stable.

Let me give you an example. If I were to endorse the consumption of psychoactive mushrooms as a means to expand the mind, I would definitely include a disclaimer to warn those who are mentally unstable (knowingly or not) of the potentially negative psychological effects. While a majority of people would be able to handle the experience just fine, it can have seriously negative consequences on some people. For instance, it could trigger paranoid schizophrenia and nearly ruin somebody's life.

It's easy to say "oh, they had something wrong with them in the first place," but often times the individual in question is unaware of this until it's too late (you don't know your schizophrenic until you start having schizophrenic episodes). It's one thing to know that something may trigger hidden psychological issues and willingly do it anyways; it's another thing to be completely unaware of the possibility.

I found very little on the internet about the possible negative side effects of lucid dreaming, however I could see the line between dreams and reality getting blurred for certain individuals (perhaps to the point of triggering serious psychotic episodes? I don't know but would like to find out).

The responsible thing to do would be to provide a disclaimer when endorsing lucid dreaming.