Liquid Dreaming

Or as the press is now saying "lucid dreaming".  It doesn't exist.  It's bogus.  There's the night-time dream, which everybody understands as a true dream; and there's the daydream, which everybody understands as fantasy.

The Tucson shooter of course referred to it as "conscience dreaming".  I read that in the early articles as "conscious dreaming", initially presuming it was a misspelling, then perhaps thinking it was a creative bit of thought on the shooter's part, trying to believe that the violence of his daydreams were actually an expression of a superior consciousness and superior moral perception.  I think this later idea is correct, he wasn't so much an illiterate fellow as a destroyed intellect; this kind of thing would make sense to him.  But now I learn that "lucid dreaming" is actually a subject of study (somewhere, apparently) as if it's a physiological expression of the brain, and not a disorder of the mind.  This indicates a moral disorder on the part of those who would insist there is such a subject.

I am very opposed to liquid dreaming, I am very opposed to lucid dreaming, I am for that matter, quite strongly opposed to very much ordinary daydreaming, because very much of it becomes a dishonesty: you are not going to fulfill very many of your daydreams, you are not going to fulfill any of them by daydreaming.  You can visit the daydream on occasion as an aspiration.  That can actually be a good thing, aspirations should be vivid to the mind.  As long as it's recognized as aspiration, and not fulfillment, it can be wholesome.  But if you regard it as fulfillment, or reality, you can destroy yourself, --as had the shooter, proven when he acted out his fantasy and destroyed so many others.

I don't like the careless use of the term, as if it's something other than a pathology, but I've seen it used little so far, so perhaps it is understood as pathological though in the articles I've read not clearly stated as such.

Note: my severe disparagement of very much daydreaming doesn't extend to kids or young men in love.  Both are a once in a lifetime experience, lack of experience is an excuse.