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As someone who gets lucid dreams frequently, they are overrated. I can see how maybe they could be fun as a novelty, but if you get them a lot, the drawbacks be
by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
As someone who gets lucid dreams frequently, they are overrated. I can see how maybe they could be fun as a novelty, but if you get them a lot, the drawbacks become very apparent:
1. A lucid dream is not as rich and immersive as a real dream. The more lucid you become, the more boring and pointless it feels. You might as well just be daydreaming.
2. Lucid dreams are caused by a failure to enter REM correctly, so a night that you get a lucid dream is a night that your sleep quality suffers.
If I never had a lucid dream again, I would be 100% happy with that. (And if I never had sleep paralysis again, I would be 500% happy with that.)
- bibelo 3y agoWhat you describe does not resemble the lucid dreams I had back then, with ability to fly, teleport, make things appear, etc. with vivid colors and details. To me it was pretty much Inception style and blew my mind. The only drawbacks for me was that you realized pretty quickly that it's a lonely experience, you get to share that universe with absolutely no one with yourself. And also it needed lots of discipline. I didn't have the chance to have them "naturally" as it seems being the case for you.