Lucid dreaming, the ability to consciously control dreams, is a very exciting experience. As every beauty has a flaw, lucid dreaming is also in a position to be considered with the dangers and harms it contains. Let’s examine them.
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Lucid Dream Dangers
Lucid dreaming carries some dangers, both physically, spiritually and mentally. These include
- Deterioration of sleep quality: Lucid dreaming can make it difficult to fall asleep and can also cause sleep interruptions. However, the ram phase, during which dreams occur, is vital for a person to rest effectively. But lucid dreaming during the ram phase prevents this phase from being completed in a healthy way and causes you to wake up tired.
- Risk of sleep paralysis: Sleep paralysis, also known as nightmare, is more likely to occur during lucid dreaming than during a normal dream experience.
- Distortion of reality perception: The increase in the rate of lucid dreaming and studies on this subject may lead to a deterioration in the distinction between reality and dreams.
- Psychological effects: Bad and frightening experiences during lucid dreaming can cause anxiety and trauma. Especially dark and lost dreams will cause negative emotions.
- Addiction and escape mechanism: Having beautiful experiences through lucid dreaming, experiencing goals that cannot be achieved in real life, results in the person having lucid dreams very often and becoming dependent on the dream world by detaching from reality over time.
Lucid Dream Harms
Lucid dreaming brings with it some harms as well as dangers. The damages caused by lucid dreaming are listed below:
- Fatigue and exhaustion: Reactivating consciousness by lucid dreaming at a time when the mind needs to rest prevents the body and mind from resting, causing fatigue and exhaustion.
- Hallucination risks: When lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis are experienced together, the risk of hallucinations increases along with the detachment from reality. This can be particularly frightening for people experiencing lucid dreaming for the first time.
- Mental stress and overthinking: Constantly thinking about the lucid dream experience while practicing lucid dreaming causes stress and anxiety in the long run, as well as mental fatigue.
- Encountering negative people and events: Lucid dreaming does not always happen under the complete control of the person. Sometimes it gets out of control and results in a negative experience by encountering unwanted people and events.