Great Escape

Who here has exploited lucid dreams for a sensation of freedom associated with using the dream as a great escape from this real world? Now, I'm not really up for anyone being politically correct about how "you shouldn't ditch the real world for the dream world...." Those annoying attidudes annoy me to the deepest level, so don't respond if you're one of those. I guess I want somebody to understand what it's like to feel so lost constantly, and have been telling yourself for years that it's going to be ok, but that actually never comes true. The same problems that happens years ago still haunt you today. I'm just trying to get a breath of fresh air, is all I want....But because people like me express my pain to the extreme, everyone takes it literally like some paranoid idiot and preaches the good side a little too unappeallingly.

But on some level, I feel like the answers for my next steps in life are only found in my dreams. I hope I'm mistaken, but I really want to live a life in my dream that has nothing to do with my life now.

Part of the reason I'm so desperate to attain this lucidity and control is exactly that. To escape. It's really my only route out of the real world, to a certain extent.

Dreams do provide an "escape" as you say. Why not try going through waking life as if it were a dream? Tibetant Budhists do exactly that. For them, everything is like a dream. It is a continuum between walking and dreaming life. Other people see life as a temporary spiritual journey, like you are an eternal spirit in a physical body, and it is not worth stressing over many things in life because they are temporary, while you go on forever.
-Iggy

i've always felt it is ignorant to tell someone they 'shouldn't use lucids as an escape from waking life', unless one actually knows what another's waking life is really like.

i know for me personally, my waking life is mostly frustrating, lonely, and restrictive. i love the fact lucidity allows me to find creative and 'existential' release while i sleep.

it helps me keep plugging along in my daily life, and try to unify the freedom of my lucid life with my waking. i may rather be lucid dreaming than performing my tedious daily routine sometimes, but i make no apologies. i don't dwell on the fact. and i don't waste my waking hours constantly wishing i was LDing.

i mean come on...can you fly in real life?can you morph and change your surroundings in real life?does the universe revolve around you in real life?NOPE....so that's why i lucid dream :wink: so when i run in to my dream dad and he is like the universe doesnt revovlve around you,ill be like"it does in here biatch!".....lucid dreaming is the best mental escape possible,maybe even the cheapest and best vacation you could ever take in your life...all depends on how you take it

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Originally posted by Pdoubledreaming
i mean come on...can you fly in real life?can you morph and change your surroundings in real life?does the universe revolve around you in real life?NOPE....so that's why i lucid dream :wink: *so when i run in to my dream dad and he is like the universe doesnt revovlve around you,ill be like"it does in here biatch!".....lucid dreaming is the best mental escape possible,maybe even the cheapest and best vacation you could ever take in your life...all depends on how you take it

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:D 'it does in here biatch!"

i view lucid dreaming as a completely free, incredible vacation as well. and you can go more than once a year!

hell, psychologists always say humans need time to relax, unwind, and have some fun and 'me time'.

lucid dreaming seems like the best therapy and stress reliever out there..