Hey everybody,

I've recently gotten interested in lucid dreaming and have had 2 lucid dreams since (and one when I was a kid by accident), and although my experiences so far have been enjoyable, I'm hesitating to go further. This is because I kind of doubt you can stop lucid dreaming, stop noticing you're dreaming and in control of your dream. Learning to lucid dream is often compared to learning a language, and a language, once learned, seems near impossible to 'forget' to me .
So far not much negative effects have been attributed to lucid dreaming, but then again, not much is known about the function of dreams. We do know that people deprived of REM sleep for a prolonged time get great trouble in their daily lives. The same drastic effect is obviously not obtained by lucid dreaming, but to me it doesn't seem unrealistic that manipulating your dreams could have a similar -though much smaller of course- effect.

So what I'm actually wondering is this: Do you guys think that one could stop lucid dreaming if research were to show that there is a health hazard?

Greetings,
ID