Lucid Dreaming?

[AndrewIrish]

Hye all,

I do a lot of meditation and hypnosis, love ASMR videos and everything of the sort but I'm starting to think that perhaps by 'tinkering' with my brain, in these supposedly 'natural ways', might not be the best thing to do. Just knowing that I got a 'bad brain', lol... that I have epilepsy... should I also try to take up lucid dreaming? I have been having super-vivid dreams and nightmares everyday for weeks now and am looking for a way to simply get back to a peaceful and restful sleep. Everything I read says to try and control the dream in a lucid dream but... I've 'tripped' once before on drugs and this kinda seems like a way to 'hack' the hardware of your brain in a way... and when I do hardware alterations, I'm always intrepid. I need to know that no one has had any bad physiological reactions to lucid dreaming and very in depth 'brain altering.' Now, I know things like neurofeedback and things like that ilk are making big waves but other then that, just standard 'messing with one's own mind' - what do you guys think? I know, waking from these vivid dreams, causes me to be completely USELESS in my first couple hours awake, betrayed by myoclonic jerks and jitteriness. I'm cautious to 'aggravate' my brain anymore.

 

[Nakamova]

During lucid dreams, parts of the brain (the parietal lobes) are more "awake" and active than they would be in regular sleep. As a result, lucid dreams tend to be even more vivid than regular dreams -- so I don't think lucid dreaming would give you the peaceful, restful sleep you're hoping for.

It might be more beneficial to focus on pre-sleep routines that involve meditating and progressive relaxation, or maybe sleep CDs like the Delta Sleep System.