 All right guys, I thought I'd make this video to talk about what in my opinion is the biggest danger of lucid dreaming This is something that you should really consider before you start learning how to lose a dream So if you are watching this video for the first time, please just pay attention This is really important Especially if you've considered lucid dreaming off you've had one before just put whatever you're doing away And just pay attention till the end of the video because I'm gonna be giving you some really useful Information and tips here something really useful It's gonna save you a lot of time and it's also gonna help you avoid this danger So what is this danger the biggest danger of lucid dreaming is to have false memories? And let me explain what I mean by this So when you when you have experiences during your waking life, right? These are your your normal memories these are encoded into your mind and over time you look back on these things and They you know, you know how the memory works, right? You look back on them and you can experience them again Now the danger is that when you lose a dream if you lose a dream in the wrong way And I'm gonna tell you in a minute how to avoid that and how to lose a dream in the right way But if you do it wrong You're gonna create lucid memories that are going to be Indistinguishable from your real memories. You're not going to be able to tell what was a dream and what was a reality And this can happen, you know, you can get this confusion Even a week from when you had the dream So you could literally have a lucid dream do it wrong create a false memory and then in a few days time or in a week's time When you look back, you won't actually be able to tell which part was a dream and which was real and this is really dangerous the reason it's dangerous is because You could have entire conversations with people, you know, you could You could have entire conversations with people like with your spouse or with your boss or with your friends That never happened and when you remember those conversations that never happened in your mind They have happened in their minds They haven't because in reality you haven't had the conversation you'll be involved in arguments You'll be confused anxious, you know, people are going to interpret you wrong Simply because you're remembering things that haven't actually happened Now you'll notice I mentioned conversations because conversations are the biggest thing that you can get confused with You know a dream a lucid dream conversation and a reality conversation in actual waking waking world The biggest mistake begin this make is they lucid dream about things That they experience in waking life regularly. You should never do that You know it listen to more experience and you can definitely tell the difference between the two things Because if you lucid dream about things that you experience during waking life That's it. You know, you're gonna be confused You're not gonna be able to tell the difference between the two types of memory That's gonna lead to you being confused have arguments, you know People understand what you're talking about because you're remembering something that didn't happen Now in a lucid dream the way our neurons work in our brain They fire in exactly the same way that they would if you did the thing in real life So what this means is that for the most part, you know, there are some exceptions And I'm sort of simplifying the physiology here But for the most part when you dream about something whether that's climbing a mountain or swimming or whatever The same neural circuits fire in your brain as if you had actually done it, you know So if you compared the two they'd look the same your brain can't tell the difference between dreams and reality You can right but when you start mixing things when you start doing things that you could have experienced in reality Then you start to blur the line and obviously your brain can't tell the difference So then when you look back on these memories, you also can't tell the difference So let me give you an example Let's say if you had a lucid dream about flying around Pluto Now to your brain you have actually flown around Pluto, you know, when you If you ever were able to do that in real in reality The same neural circuits would fire when you do it in reality and when you do it in a lucid dream But obviously when you wake up you can very clearly say to yourself Oh, well, that was obviously a dream because nobody can fly around Pluto And in the same way in a year's time when you look back on that dream You can still say obviously that was a dream when I when I flew around Pluto. I didn't actually do that right, however If you have a lucid dream about having an argument with your boss That is something that could happen in reality the same neural circuits fire So to your brain you've actually had the argument But in a year's time or you know, even a week or two's time when you look back on that on that memory You won't be able to tell whether you actually had the argument with your boss or whether it was a dream unless you obviously make a note in your dream journal and then keep looking back but We often don't do that when we're out and about in the waking world. We don't we don't always think Wait when we look back on our memories. We don't always think was that real or was that a dream We just take it for granted that that was our memory, especially if it's something that we're seeing and experiencing every day So let's just loop this background to avoid that and to always make sure that you write your memories in the right way Don't lose a dream about things that could happen in real life And if you do have to like for example, if you're practicing for a job interview Which is actually something you can use lucid dream before Make sure you write a note of it in your dream journal and make sure that when you wake up you clearly remind yourself That it wasn't real that it was a dream to prepare you for the reality. This is so important guys. I can't emphasize this enough Anyway, that is the biggest danger of lucid dreaming in my opinion is false memories Because it's going to interfere and confuse your real life your waking life done