Lucid dreams: their advantage and disadvantage in the frame of search activity concept

Abstract

Search activity (SA) is the behavioral and mental activity that is oriented to changes of the environment or of the subject's view and approach to the environment according to personal needs without the definite probability forecast of the outcomes of such activity, but with a regular consideration of the outcomes in the process of active behavior. Dream's lucidity (the subject's realization that he/she is dreaming) protects dreamer from awakenings during emotionally disturbing or frustrating dreams, because lucid dreams allow subject to feel separated from the dream events that may cause a feeling of helplessness. Due to such a protection from awakenings that can bring subject back to the frustration in wakefulness, subject can turn in the further sleep to normal non-lucid dreams that are restoring subject's SA in the subsequent wakefulness (activity in the uncertain situation with the feedback between behavior and its outcome). It is the advantage of lucid dreams. Their disadvantage is that due to the separation from the dream events that are in lucid dreams accepted as rationalized dreams, not as real stories where the dreamer acts like in wakefulness, their ability to restore SA is decreased until they are not displaced by the normal non-lucid dreams accepted as real stories.

Radiation Risk and Follow-up of Accidentally Exposed Populations: Implications of the Search Activity Concept

“…Moreover, such perception might have a direct effect on survival if a cancer diagnosis is confirmed: although any psychosomatic factors in carcinogenesis are a matter of debate, there is no doubt that psychosomatic factors affect a person's resistance to illness and reaction to treatment. Personal activism, on the contrary, was associated with exceptional survival of some cancer patients (as described herein) in full agreement with the search activity (SA) concept [5].…”

Nightmare and Psychosis Proneness: Mediating Role of Lucid Dreaming in Pakistani Adults

“…The process of search activity during lucid dreams helps in changing their nightmare into a pleasant dream. The change might wake them up making them realize that they were dreaming (Rotenberg, 2015). Thus, when one's nightmare distress is high, dream lucidity gets high as it is in the process to change the anxietyprovoking dream.…”

“…The lucid dreamer can lead towards psychosis if an individual is focused on controlling their internal reliability (i.e., dream) that they lose control of their external reality (Bendall et al, 2007;Mota et al, 2016). Likewise, Muslims faces the guilt of manipulating their dreams which direct to a guilt-proneness personality towards psychosis because individual accepts their lucid dreams as rationalized dreams (Rotenberg, 2015).…”

“…It was seen that lucid dreamers with psychotic symptoms are more controlling on their dream than nonlucid dreamers (Mota et al, 2016). Similarly, the guilt of manipulating self-dream triggers psychosis, and people accept their lucid dreams as rationalized dreams, which is not a real story but because dreamer acts like being in wakefulness, their ability to restore Search Activities has decreased (Rotenberg, 2015).…”

“…The increase in activities of the frontal lobe causes lucid dreaming and the decrease in its activity can cause proneness towards psychosis and non-lucid dreaming while in nightmares amygdale plays a significant role. As Amygdala is responsible for fear and other emotions; with the increase of its activity dreams are been confronted with suppression, and effecting ones' pleasure dream (Mota et al, 2016;Rotenberg, 2015).…”