I still don’t buy it. By all accounts, this guy has been broken for some time. Again, you’re trying to find a “boogy man” to blame this on, when the guy was just clearly sick.
I can’t even see a normal person going this nutz with drug use. I do know that many psychotics turn to drugs in an attempt to self-medicate.
Dreams may have been the only place that anything made sense in his world.
I’m sorry STA, but we’re only dealing with the rantings of a mad-man. We can blame it on the fact that he read “The Communist Manifesto” or “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. He obviously felt pretty passionate about the gold standard being left behind.
Oh, I know! He’s a radical member of the “Grammar Police” who was driven mad by my terrible punctuation and spelling! ;-) (I know my husband is.)
I think that we’ll find out that he was insane long before he started college.
The *only* thing that I might see as a cause would be SSRI’s. But even then, we’re talking “chicken and the egg”. Which came first?
I agree. Which is it? Sarah Palin or Lucid Dreaming? or is he mentally ill? I vote for mentally ill. It really is that simple. His mom must feel terrible that she didn’t help him. Does he have a father? maybe it’s fatherless child syndrome. (We could play this game all day. However, the media will continue to blame Sarah, Glenn, Rush, Tea Party, Republicans, and let’s not forget BUSH.)
That's fine. I don't claim to have the answer. But I think it's a line of investigation that's worth pursuing for two reasons. First, it can help to explain his behavior and perhaps help to prevent cases like this in the future. And secondly, it can help to expose the dangers of New Age "conscious dreaming," as demonstrated in posts #13 & #14.