I also worry somewhat about that. I did learn to do some lucid dreaming in the past, but did stop it again after some weeks.
First I found it already harder after the first few successes to get into the lucid state. Like my mind finding more and more clever excuses telling me in dreams why I'm not dreaming despite obvious dream-like things happening. So some sub-conscious part of me obviously wasn't really wanting the lucid dreaming. Also dreams started to get more intense - which isn't always a good thing as a waking up from a cruel dream can mess up your thinking seriously for the rest of the day.
Then there is also the part that to get into lucid dreams you have to think a lot about dreams.That simply costs time, especially if your job is already about thinking (like programming).
And certainly we still don't know enough what dreams are actually for. We know it has to do with learning - but there are also theories that it has to do with forgetting unimportant things. Messing that process up might certainly have disadvantages.
Still... if I ever have enough time again to really train it I will probably give it another try. It seems like one of the very few ways we have to inspect our own mind and I'm just too curious to not want to do that.
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I also worry somewhat about that. I did learn to do some lucid dreaming in the past, but did stop it again after some weeks.
First I found it already harder after the first few successes to get into the lucid state. Like my mind finding more and more clever excuses telling me in dreams why I'm not dreaming despite obvious dream-like things happening. So some sub-conscious part of me obviously wasn't really wanting the lucid dreaming. Also dreams started to get more intense - which isn't always a good thing as a waking up from a cruel dream can mess up your thinking seriously for the rest of the day.
Then there is also the part that to get into lucid dreams you have to think a lot about dreams.That simply costs time, especially if your job is already about thinking (like programming).
And certainly we still don't know enough what dreams are actually for. We know it has to do with learning - but there are also theories that it has to do with forgetting unimportant things. Messing that process up might certainly have disadvantages.
Still... if I ever have enough time again to really train it I will probably give it another try. It seems like one of the very few ways we have to inspect our own mind and I'm just too curious to not want to do that.