Thread: Brainstorming: How to get the word out about LDing and DreamViews???

Well, that buisness card thing could work...

I suggest if you print off business cards for DreamViews that you put them in like popular books like Twilight or something.

Oh, that reminds me. I wanted to go around asking people "How would you like to learn to control your dreams?" and "How would you like to be able to have any experience you can possibly imagine, without much effort?" to see how differently they react to both.

If there is someone with skill in video editing, perhaps a viral video of some sort? It could use effects to show off the kinds of thing a lucid dream can be used for.

Business cards would be great, especially in popular fiction like slayer said.

Start pushing around the forum to get users to advertise DV on social networking sites.

As silly as it may sound, make a cardboard sign with the URL and bring it to a televised sporting event. If the sign stands out, it shouldn't be too hard to get a camera on you during a break in play. Even if not broadcast, just having it on a screen in the stadium immediately targets all those people looking at it.

In addition to printing little lucid dreaming business cards with DV and some information on them and then leaving them in interesting locations where they're likely to be read (planes/airports, restaurants/menus, waiting rooms, bookstores, windshields, birthday cards at the store, the mailboxes with slots at apartment complexes, school/gym lockers, etc.), I also had this expensive and impossible idea:

One or a series of short videos, which could be kept on sites like youtube.
Here are the basics as written in an MSN conversation:

Spoiler for LD 'commercials':

It kind of formed in my head like the preview to a movie. It could be a guy sleeping in bed, and a voice would say "THIS" and then an alarm goes off, and he's all miserable and wakes up. Then it would say, "IS JACK" or whoever. And then it goes through this series of clips showing how miserable his life is or whatever. His dog shits on the floor and his wife is fat and ugly and his car breaks down on the way to work and it starts raining as he hops a bus and when he gets there his boss yells at him and his computer won't work so he sits there for hours messing with it and then he goes home and looks in the mirror and is a little fat and balding and is miserable and goes to sleep.

And then he wakes up and he's lucid, so he makes his dog clean the house and his wife is some super sexy person and he has a Lamborghini and drives to work, looks up at the building, rolls his eyes, walks in the front door and ends up at the beach. There's a door on a beach (like that scene in Beetlejuice) and he lays down in a hammock and smiles.

Although at some point he could be looking in a mirror and like adjusting his body to make it awesome. Maybe he could go into work and upstairs and throw his boss across the room and then walk into a bathroom, make himself good looking, open the toilet stall and have it lead to the beach... something really crazy and awesome. Anyway at the very end it would have his alarm clock go off and he'd be smiling as he turned it off.

But then I thought, wouldn't it be awesome if there were a series of them, for every stereotype... teenage girls, teenage guys, older people, whatever. There could even be nightmare ones where people are smashing their nightmares hahaha It could show a funeral and all these depressed people, and then someone in their dreams hugging the person who died.

Damn, awesome, in the time it took me to copy/paste we already have some neat ideas Keep 'em coming guys Even if they are impossible, post anyway and see if you can inspire someone else!

SHIFT, I really really like your mini-series idea. It would be great if they all followed the similar theme yet with, like you said, different stereotypical characters. I love it.

On a side note, a cheap, quick, easy way to get dreamviews out is simply writing it EVERYWHERE. Write it on your restaurant meal bills, stalls of bathrooms (err I mean, vandalism is BAD), leave notes in books, write on money bills; something simple like "Are you dreaming? www.dreamviews.com". Also, everyone should buy a shirt/bag/sweatshirt with the DV logo

id buy a DV shirt

this is a good design i found in a thread awhile ago

http://droidz.org/share/12115/1248126580.png

Could randomly go through your phonebook like a telemarketer and tell people you are conducting a survey for psychology course, ask them if they'd be willing to answer some questions, ask if they've ever had a dream where they knew they were dreaming, ever woken up and found yourself paralyzed, ever had recurring nightmares that they wanted to conquer, etc. etc. and eventually lead into: this is what lucid dreaming is, did you know these facts, blah blah if you want to know more here is a website set up by a student (technically not a lie...)

no one listens to telemarketers except retards or people playing a prank

sorry but its true

i like the business cards and the shirt ideas

Ok I really love that TV commerical thing.

You wouldn't be a telemarketer, though. You'd be a student conducting a survey and asking a few questions and the people who seem interested may end up engaging in a conversation about LDing with you. Think of it as Omegle but IRL, since I know that's what you're all about.

I may actually do this and ask real questions and write down answers.

Almost everyone likes the commercial thingy, but it just seems so impossible to do Anyone have a film crew?

Originally Posted by Shift

Anyone have a film crew?

I have a phone camera and microsoft paint. Will that do?

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Commercial = Win(if we can do it)
Cards = Win
Shirts = Win(hot topic?)
Telemarketer = i dont think it would work as well as the above^

I dont have a film crew but im sure someone will be willing to do it

Originally Posted by Banana

I dont have a film crew but im sure someone will be willing to do it

It would have to be REALLY well done to be interesting and convincing to the average viewer. I almost think that if it were mistaken for a movie preview that would be ideal.

Something like this . That could practically be one all on its own. That is the quality and sort of style I think any 'commercials' ought to be. I mean obviously not that impressive in terms of quality and effects, but as close as possible with what we've got.

i printed out like 6 buisiness cards

i could hand them out to either people at school, or my aunts friends(they are into that kind of stuff) or just random people

we could get someone with a green screen to do a video for us and we could put it on the internet or put it on TV(if possible)

My favorite way of telling people about lucid dreaming goes something like this: "Have you ever had one of those dreams where you know you're dreaming?" If they say "yeah!" go on like "Aren't they awesome? You can do anything you want!" if not, say "I've had some, they're awesome. You can do anything you want!" then maybe talk about what's possible as they get excited about the idea. Then tell them about how it's possible to have many lucid dreams with some practice and how real they are. If they're interested, go in more detail about induction methods, and link them to some tutorials. If they're not interested or lose interest, then they're not worth it. "You can experience anything you can imagine!" "Nah."

Also, make sure to mention all the scientific research so they don't think of it as "new-agey"

The most important thing is not to overwhelm them. It's "knowing you're dreaming," not "knowing you're dreaming and WILD and DILD and SP and you need to work on your dream recall try autosuggestion light switches dont work and LDing is difficult and you have to do this dont forget to stay conscious lucidity lol"

some people i tell say theyve never had them and they think im lying.

theni link them to the DJ page

then they believe me

Every single psychology book in a college bookstore.
Get some studious people into it, maybe influence some people to do research?

That video was pretty cool...

Answer me this: Why do we want to go around advertising dreamviews?

Why wouldn't you want DV advertised? As long as it's to the 'right' crowd (and yes this is up to individual interpretation), what's wrong with advertising it?

The best part is, you can take responsibility with these fun ideas and apply them to whatever crowd you prefer.

nothing, thats what


Now i think it would be great to spread the word.

it could help plenty of people

I could maybe spread some words around at my college when school starts. We could tell people with certin problems about it. Ex. "Hey "insert freinds name here" I do know that you are trying to (get over fear, stop (insert name of drug here)). I think you might like Lucid dreaming." "It's where you controll your dreams you can do anything your mind desires, I even know about this really good site that could help you out" you can guess how the rest of the conversation generally goes.