Thread: Towards the ?

Lucid dreaming certainly can change your subconscious. Why is it that a lucid nightmare can cause someone to develop a temporary fear of something? How do you think people are able to overcome their fears in lucid dreams? How is it that lucid dreamers can change their perspective on anything, including substantially changing one's personality? The fact is that lucid dreams are deeply integrated into our subconscious, and we can use them to change ourselves in ways only previously achievable through hypnosis.

As for the effects on the economy, I can't say for sure that lucid dreaming will cause people to buy things less often. However, in my honest opinion I think that if people have access to anything desire from within their dreams, then they will find that the appeal of material products is lower, given that they have unlimited access to any desired product or experience in their lucid dreams. Granted, this will depend on the frequency of lucid dream occurrences on a per individual basis, but I think that overall economic activity will drop if lucid dreaming goes mainstream, and if people are educated on how to use them to do anything they want.

Good job on having knowledge of human psychology. I, too, understand human psychology, although I do admit that I don't have a degree in the field. I still believe that basic human psychology is able to be understood without requiring a formal education on the subject.


Lucid dreams do consist of past experiences. They also consist of learned and observed behaviors. I'm not going to disagree with that. However, that isn't to say that one is unable to learn something new from within a lucid dream. Take sports or martial arts, for instance. You can practice any physical discipline from within your dreams. In fact, take new ideas into account. New ideas can be formed from within a lucid dream, and one's creative power, as I'm sure you can agree, is substantially higher within a lucid dream. That's just off the top of my head, but other things I can think of include altering one's own behaviors (behavior modification), using the subconscious to increase the activation of certain parts or functions of the brain, learning about and consciously understanding one's own subconscious, etc. At this point in research, the possibilities of lucid dreams are virtually limitless.

MindGames - You have many subjects in your post; and a lot of them aren't really replies to what I said.
I think that the easiest thing for my to do is to sharpen my point some more (if you know what I mean); and hopefully, it will be more clear, what I mean. I will just say generally what I think, without answering anything particular.

What will happen if Lucid Dreaming will go mainstream?
Regarding the GENERAL PUBLIC'S DEVELOPMENT. My prediction - practically no change. And I'm 99% sure of that.
Reasons - there are many GREAT tools that people can use for their development: Buddhism, Taoism, Logical thinking, psychological tools like: Behaviorism, understanding your problem and why psychologically it happens etc'; and so much more knowledge available FOR FREE with an EXTREMELY EASY access.
Does all that and Jesus Christ made any difference? NO!! Humanity still generally suck. Lucid Dreaming won't be different.
Can it be a very good tool to help a PERSON to develop mentally and consciously? Of-course yes. But I already said that in my first post.

It's just one tool of many. Who decides to do something with it - it will help them. Who won't - the tool itself won't make a difference.

Conclusion - Personally - Yes! Generally - NO!
Don't confuse what you personally want to achieve, with the general public's psychology.

That's what Craig asked - how will it effect the world. So that's my answer.