 Okay, so there is basically one thing that I would say you need to avoid when you lose a dream more than anything else. This thing is something that a lot of people seem to be doing. For some reason I was very surprised when I kind of popped into a popular lucid dreaming discord channel and that is to kill, harm or you know otherwise do bad things to dream characters or to things in the dream. Specifically, and I'm going to clarify a few things because I have made two videos about this since I've had this channel. So to clarify a few things what I mean specifically is when you enter a dream and then intentionally kill or harm dream characters for the sole purpose of you gaining some kind of pleasure from it. That is in my opinion completely the wrong thing to do. Firstly it's immoral, it's strange, it's weird, it's a bit creepy but the reason that I'm suggesting that is not because you know of my own sense of what's right or wrong in the lucid dream of course you can do anything in your own dream basically. It's really just to help you out because if you do those things let's say if you constantly create this situation almost like a virtual reality game where you're doing harmful you know intentionally causing harm to a dream character. The effect that will have on your own mental health and your own well-being is not very good you know it's bad actually. And a good example of this is if you imagine right somebody was able to have like a virtual reality headset in real life right a virtual reality headset and with this headset they can they they were choosing to experience like a simulation of a room where they were kind of you know causing harm to a person deliberately. I don't want to be too graphic but let's say they were just deliberately causing harm to this person in this simulation and they were playing this thing all day long. Most people would agree that's very strange that's like a very unusual creepy kind of disgusting thing to be doing right and so the same thing that really applies to your dream like the lucid dream is really no different in many ways to a virtual reality simulation in the sense that you the dreamer you the character or the controller are choosing what to experience the intention is yours. So if you if you have a an intention to do harm to someone even if that is not real in your mind or if it's not a you might say oh well it's a dream character you know it's not real that's beside the point the point is not the victim of this because yeah right it's a dream character right it's a simulation whatever the point the victim really is you the person doing it because your mental health and emotional well-being will suffer as a result of you because you have the memories of doing that thing you know and this is the whole kind of point behind things like PTSD or you know traumatic stress memories when somebody has a really intense memory of doing something they know to be wrong most commonly in soldiers right they come back from from the war that memory kind of haunts them and it really does play havoc you know they suffer depression they get anxiety insomnia emotional unavailability these sorts of things start to manifest in people who have decided to either cause harm to somebody or have who have witnessed somebody else causing harm to somebody because humans are not intended to do that we're not meant to be killing people and you know watching these things play out and what but what's happened in the media with you know movies video games and culture is we've kind of become a bit desensitized to it so we we think and this is how people in the discord were rationalizing and they were saying oh well it's just you know it's just a video game i've killed thousands of people in a video game or you know it's just a dream i've forced thousands of people to like have sex with me in a dream basically i don't want to be too you know graphic here but they basically justify these things which in the real world most or if not you know all people would agree these things are wrong why would you assume that doing them in a lucid dream is any different because although the dream kind of scenario you could say is not real i mean even that's debatable but let's say if you believe it's not real that the effects will still be there in your mind because it's your it's physically you as the dream character as the dream you know the dreamer you're the one doing it so if if you bring the memories back into real life then those memories affect you in almost exactly the same way as somebody who's done it in real life which we know is negatively right you get depression anxiety all these kind of mental health problems uh as a result now to clarify one very important thing because i think this is this is pretty critical right i'm not saying that if you play one video game and shoot one one video game character that you're suddenly going to become depressed i'm not saying that if you have one lucid dream and you push one dream character off a cliff that you're going to become you know your mental health is going to define i'm not saying that okay what i'm saying is there is a correlation in in the sense that the more you do it the worse the effects on you will become so i'm not there because obviously you know there's people out there who've who've had a dream about killing a dream character or whatever right one or two times nothing much is going to happen what i'm saying is people who intentionally right the the key here is intention who deliberately create a lucid dream with the intention of killing dream characters that is very different to having a lucid dream and then accidentally or just you know spontaneously uh killing a dream character very different because with the with the first one you're doing it with the intention and it's specifically because you want to gain some kind of pleasure or satisfaction from doing it instead of the the second one where you basically you're in a lucid dream a dream character approaches you or tries to attack you and to defend yourself you kill them or push them off a cliff in the in the dream very different things uh and another thing i want to point out because people in the um discord didn't seem to understand this i'm not saying that every single person who kills someone in a video game or a lucid dream will become depressed because there are people saying well you know i've done it thousands of times and i'm fine that is a very weak argument because i'm not saying everyone has this you know this effect what i'm saying is in general if you look at the the average right in general people who intentionally do bad things in a let's say in a video game a simulation or a lucid dream or even in their daydreams right people who imagine doing bad things in general will at some point suffer mental health decline depression the things kind of go hand in hand you know you you very rarely find uh people who are completely happy positive you know they're doing what they love with their lives they're satisfied they don't have any real issues right you very rarely find that sort of person intentionally playing violent video games every single day or intentionally lucid dreaming about harming people it just very rarely happens usually it's a symptom or a sign of an underlying issue trauma insecurity problem or desire and that's why i think it's good so it was actually quite eye-opening for me in the discord to see people just you know aggressively defending their position saying you know it's fine to to brutally kill people in a dream it's not real as if there is just absolutely no effect that it will have on you and you know we know from studies on mirror neurons right that when you dream about doing something or even when you visualize it you know with a lot of emotion mirror neurons fire meaning that this the same neurons in your brain fire when you do something in a dream compared to if you did it in real life so to your brain there is no difference so i know you might be able to consciously think oh well as you know it's just a dream it's not real but to your brain to your neural circuits it's exactly the same thing and this is what i think a lot of people need to realize the same neural circuits fire just think about it okay leave leave a comment let me know what you think and i'll see you next time