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May lucid dreaming be life-threatening for some individuals? The big majority of lucid dreams are favorable, bringing rewarding things, much more so than average dreams. However, there likely will be a few individuals who find the experience of lucid dreaming awful and, in a few cases, highly disturbing. For this reason we can't advocate lucid dreaming for everybody.
On the other hand, we're convinced that for individuals no more than “typically neurotic, “lucid dreaming is altogether harmless. Different individuals will utilize lucid dreaming for different aims; it makes little sense to admonish the typical adventurer of the dream world away from lucid dreaming as some may utilize it in a less than optimal fashion. If, after studying this book, you've serious reservations regarding lucid dreaming, then we advocate that you not continue. Just make certain that it's really your self to which you're being true. Don't let others impose their personal concerns on you.
I'm afraid that if I learn to cause lucid dreams, all my dreams will turn lucid. Then what?
The philosopher P. D. Ouspensky underwent conflicting emotions concerning “half-dream states” as he named lucid dreams: “The beginning sensation they raised was one of amazement. I expected to discover one thing and discovered another. The following was a feeling of extraordinary delight which the „half-dream states, „ and the possibility of encountering and understanding things in quite a fresh way, gave me. And the 3rd was a particular fear of them, as I very soon discovered that if I let them take their own course they'd start to grow and expand and infringe both on sleep and on the waking state.
Once you start entertaining this distressful line of thinking, likely you'll quit having lucid dreams. Without your consent there's truly very little chance that all dreams would become lucid. Lucid dreaming takes effort. Lucid dreams happen only rarely unless you go to sleep with the calculated and definite aim to become conscious, or lucid, in your dreams. Therefore, you'll be able to regulate (and restrict, if essential) the frequency of lucid dreams.
As I believe that dreams are messages from the unconscious, I'm afraid that consciously commanding my dreams would interfere with this crucial procedure and strip me of the Advantages of dream interpretation.
Dreams are not letters from the unconscious, but things produced through the interactions of the unconscious mind and conscious mind. In dreams, more unconscious knowledge is useable for our conscious experience. But, the dream isn?t at all the exclusive domain of the unconscious. If it were, individuals would never recall their dreams, as we don't have waking access to what isn't conscious.
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