Thread: How far the history of LD goes?

Hello all!

I'm a newbie, found this forum today and registered.

I've had discussions about LD with my friend for last three days and he is convinced LD is somehow dangerous or at least it makes you tired, because your mind is not really sleeping. He even thought advanced lucid dreamer might go insane because of ability to create so real dream sceneries and for doing all those RCs all the time.

I tried to explain him that when a person is having a psychosis, they are NOT in control of them, but in LD one is in control of all the "monsters".

Also mentioned one isn't doing it correctly if one is tired after waking up. At least this is what I've learned from different sources in the Internet. I suggested him mind doesn't have to be in sleep (lets face it, mind keeps buzzing all the time!) to process some messages from the subconscious mind, because LDer can talk directly to the subconscious and that is much faster, than watching all the cryptic symbolism. Isn't it?

So how far the history of lucid dreaming goes? In a podcast I found a lady told she has been LDer for about 20 years and she sounded completely sane. If there are hundreds of people, who have done it decades, who are advanced LDers, shouldn't they be in mental institution by now if it really were dangerous?