RE: "Seriously brain, what the hell?" A Thread For Weird Dreams and Nightmares
04-08-2013, 08:10 PM
A man can change his opinion, I've seen him do it
As I've gradually lost the ability in recent months to maintain full control of my dreams, I've found that with the exception of stress-dreams, non-lucid (insane?) dreams are just more satisfying and interesting and less draining. On reflection, this is likely because after years of near-exclusively lucid dreams, I'd kind of burned myself out on pretty much everything I was capable of dreaming up for myself; adding a little randomness in the form of my weirdo subconsciousness is refreshing.
Having done both, I feel like lucid dreams are nice, but still probably not commensurate with the effort of developing the skill if you don't do it naturally.
Even as I've lost my grip on my dream-world, though, I've managed to hold on to the ability to revise or do over events even in largely non-lucid dreams. That parts pretty nice.
As I've gradually lost the ability in recent months to maintain full control of my dreams, I've found that with the exception of stress-dreams, non-lucid (insane?) dreams are just more satisfying and interesting and less draining. On reflection, this is likely because after years of near-exclusively lucid dreams, I'd kind of burned myself out on pretty much everything I was capable of dreaming up for myself; adding a little randomness in the form of my weirdo subconsciousness is refreshing.
Having done both, I feel like lucid dreams are nice, but still probably not commensurate with the effort of developing the skill if you don't do it naturally.
Even as I've lost my grip on my dream-world, though, I've managed to hold on to the ability to revise or do over events even in largely non-lucid dreams. That parts pretty nice.