Originally Posted by Sageous
With the obvious exception of my visits to places like this, I have never, not even once, had anyone tell me that they are a lucid dreamer on there own without prompting from me. Given the many thousands of people I've met, across all walks of life, in my time, I've come to believe that LD'ing is not a very common activity. In fact, I would say that it is pretty rare. This can be illustrated by looking at DreamViews itself: even though it is by far the premier lucid dreaming forum site, it has only about 90,000 members; I would guess that Kim Kardashian has far more followers all by herself! So yeah, not everyone practices lucid dreaming, indeed, we represent a very exclusive club!
That said:
I have also come to suspect that everyone has at least one LD in their lifetime, either by accident or in the form of a defensive response to nightmares, as Spellbee noted above. So everyone may have a LD or two in their lifetime, but that is very different from practicing LD'ing and having them, on purpose, on a regular basis.
Here's another oddity I've noticed over the years: after I mention that I have LD's, people seem to have one of two reactions: either they stare at me blankly for a moment, maybe ask a couple of polite questions, and then quickly change the subject, or else they announce that "Oh, yeah, I do that too... all the time." I used to get excited when they said the latter, but not so much anymore, because I've found that, with just a little chat about the subject, I would invariably discover that the folks who claim to be regular LD'ers really never did it at all (it isn't hard to tell); they were just lying, either to impress or not feel left out, I suppose. I have no idea why people do this, but they do. I think this may be the reason why I pretty much never offer on my own to people that I practice LD'ing (I usually do so reluctantly, probably because the subject of what I do with my life came up).
tl;dr: Though everyone likely experiences lucidity once or twice in life, the practice of regular, intentional LD'ing is indeed a rarity... and maybe take those who claim to be LD'ers after they hear you are one with a grain of salt...
I've also noticed that,amongst the people who claim to Lucid Dream. Even had a friend who said they never had a Lucid Dream,I explained it,than when we met a girl who,as you said "all the time" lucid dreamed, he claimed he Lucid dreamed based off of what I told him,and after closely listening to her,I could tell that she didn't lucid dream. Both making me question people who say that they do,and as you said,stop initiating the topic,or atleast the fact that I do. I wonder if there's a for sure question you can ask someone,to tell if they LD.
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